A Steam Driven Industrial Metropolis

That title is how I describe the first city my characters visit in my current project, it's a steampunk novel dealing with subjects of age, freedom, racism and war, at least I hope I'll be able to tackle these elements in the way I want by the stories end.  The novel is called 'A Sky-Ship Names Scarborough,' for the most part it will follow the crew of an airship as they help a wandering priestess complete her pilgrimage, or this was my original intent, so far, at least the first act docent quite follow this, we still follow the ship's crew and the priestess but they don't meat up until some ways into the story, instead we follow these two stories simultaneously until they entwine into one.

Anyway, the point to this post, for the forceable future this blog will detail my progress on this novel, i'll post some extracts ready for criticism, praise myself when i think I'm doing well and rant when things aren't going right.  I'll work on separate short stories from time to time so every so often you'll get a nice break from steampunk but for the most part Scarborough's what you get =P

Favorite Fiction: The Kitty Norville Series

That was the french trailer for one of my favourite all time books 'Kitty and The Midnight Hour' by Carrie Vaughn, a story of Werwolves, Vampires, talk-show radio and all that good stuff.  I picked this book up a while back when the shop I'd seen it is was closing, and I'm sorry to say it say on my desk for a couple months before I actually picked it up again, but from then on I couldn't put it down, and as soon as i finished I went out and bought the second book 'Kitty Goes To Washington' and then the third 'Kitty Takes a Holiday', then i took a break to read some of the other books scattered throughout my room.  Though since I have read the fourth book 'Kitty and the Silver Bullet'.

I love these books, and anyone who's interested in Supernatural fiction about the things that go bump in the night, then i highly recommend this compelling series =D



Carrie Vaughn's website: http://www.carrievaughn.com/index.html