Re-Imagining Characters: Finding Familiar Faces in New Places

It was exciting to watch the Steampunk Holmes: Legacy of the Nautilus Kickstarter counter climb from around 57% funding to 147% in the last 50 hours of the drive.  With the additional monies, Richard Monson-Haefel hopes to bring the second book of the series, Steampunk Holmes: Frankenstein (working title) to readers a year earlier than […]

Helping Shape a New Concept for Books: Final Hours of the Steampunk Holmes Kickstarter Campaign

How do you best absorb information? Are you a hands-on person, needing to disassemble an engine on the workbench in order to understand how it works? Do you reach greater understanding when you hear the mechanic describe the flow of fuel through the injector to the engine? Or, do you want to see the directions […]

Kickstart a Writer’s Dream: You Can Be Steampunk Holmes' Angel

What if the book you are currently reading was fully interactive?  What if you could touch a scene in your book, and see it come to life as a movie?  Or examine a detailed drawing of the equipment and weapons in use?  What if your book spoke with an English accent?  What if a map of old London […]