Goth Galore Novella, Merry Men of Endeavor, Master of Nine Winds, Sphere of Worlds, Missouri Terror Birds, Gen Sam Houston for President, 40th Anniversary. All this week’s Secret Knowledge is below…
Goth Galore, Weird the First for Palestine’s Ghosts, is available as a stand-alone novella. It ended up at 26,223 words making it a Novella, not a Novelette. At this rate, Palestine’s Ghosts will be more than 160,000 words – way longer than I’d like. Of course Weird The First used an entire novel, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, as inspiration. I’m looking at short stories or portions of stories for the rest. Maybe I can keep the rest of them a little more focused. I did decide to go ahead and publish it as an ebook. It is minimum price of $0.99 for now. I will probably increase the price after the whole of Palestine’s Ghosts is published.
I also started work on Weird the Second: High Adventure. This is going to be more light-hearted, a swashbuckling adventure with a supporting cast of merry rogues. In fact, they purposefully use Robin Hood nicknames – even if the tie is… tenuous. For example, “The Sheriff” is called that because he doesn’t like to participate in the “foolishness.” The fact that he hates the nickname just makes it stick harder. Besides, Eleanor gets to wear pants and shoot aetheric pistols… https://greshamverse.fandom.com/wiki/Crew_of_the_Aerosphere_Endeavour
Jin Tao, Master of the Nine Winds, is a wuxia master and dabbler wizard that is the main antagonist of High Adventure. He is an extraordinary man who can only see how others are better, and envy them. https://greshamverse.fandom.com/wiki/Jin_Tao,_Master_of_the_Nine_Winds
The Sphere of Worlds is responsible for the Weird goings on in Weird the Second.
A lot of time this week was spent on our 40th Anniversary trip to Branson, Missouri. The intent was to spend some time together – which was accomplished. We wanted to do some things together – accomplished. Deborah didn’t have super strong opinions about what to do – so we saw stuff that was cool and might make good inspiration or locations for a story or two of Walter and Eleanor in the Ozarks. It’s gonna be a challenge finding a place to park Endeavor…
Good progress this week on Palestine’s Ghosts. Chapters this week:
Weird The First V: Seals and Good-byes – completed
Chapter 2: A Weird Week
Weird The Second I: Endeavor’s Merry Men
Weird The Second II: Through the Aetherstorm – started
Word Count is 39,337 in 8+ chapters of an estimated 70,000-130,000 in 32 chapters.
Goth Galore is available as a stand-alone novella. It is #1,112 in Gaslamp Fantasy (Kindle Store), #1,631 in Gaslamp Fantasy (Books), and #4,109 in Historical Fantasy (Kindle Store). It is ebook only available here.
Antarctic Honeymoon is #1,653 in Steampunk Fiction, #5,829 in Alternate History Science Fiction (Books), and #10,037 in Exploration Science Fiction. If you don’t have yours yet, you can get the paper version here, or the kindle version here. The audiobook is available here. No reviews yet. If you’ve finished the book and haven’t left a review, please do so here.
Artemis Rising is #334 in Steampunk Science Fiction (Kindle Store), #398 in Steampunk Fiction, and #1,119 in Alternative History. If you don’t have yours yet, you can get the paper version here or the kindle version here. There is also an audiobook version here. Seven reviews for Artemis Rising. More will help others find the series as well – if you’ve finished the book and haven’t left a review, please do so here.
Celestial Accord is in #657 in Steampunk Science Fiction (Kindle Store), #787 Steampunk Fiction, #2,130 in Alternate History. If you don’t have yours yet, you can get the paper version here, the kindle version here, or the audiobook version here. One review but two ratings so far. If you’ve finished the book and haven’t left a review, please do so here.
Forging the Chain Breakers is #570 in Steampunk Science Fiction (Kindle Store), #674 in Steampunk Fiction, #1,890 in Alternative History. If you don’t have yours yet, you can get the paper version here, the kindle version here, or the audiobook here. No reviews yet. If you’ve finished the book and haven’t left a review, please do so here.
Selene Unchained is #510 in Steampunk Science Fiction (Kindle Store), #610 in Steampunk Fiction, #1,721 in Alternate History. If you don’t have yours yet, you can get the paper version here, the kindle version here, or the audiobook here. No reviews yet. If you’ve finished the book and haven’t left a review, please do so here
Mirim’s First Christmas is #6,742 in 90-Minute Science Fiction & Fantasy Short Reads, #11,954 in Colonization Science Fiction, and #12,152 in Alternate History Science Fiction (Books). You can find the paper version here or the kindle version here. One review so far. If you’ve finished the book and haven’t left a review, please do so here.