My readers may have noticed that although I often write articles about historical anniversaries, I didn’t do anything topical this Monday for Martin Luther King Jr’s Birthday. That’s because I limit myself to events that happened at least a century ago, and Dr. King was born in 1929. On the following day it occurred to […]
Cherie Priest’s 2009 book Boneshaker is an exciting alternate history tale that takes place in nineteenth-century Seattle. In this timeline, the war between the Union and Confederacy continues into the 1880’s. The Pacific Northwest has remained a backwater, and Seattle itself suffered a peculiar cataclysm. Inventor Leviticus Blue creates an “Incredible Bone-shaking Drill Engine,” which […]
Welcome to our new, improved, old-timey site. Like many of my creative endeavors, it was based on a whim that turned into something fun and original. I wanted to do more than promoting my books, to make a site that would be worth visiting for its own sake. Some say an author should only promote […]
