• Looking Ahead – 2014

    I don’t know about you, but around here it felt like the new year didn’t *really* start until Monday the 6th.  So here I am 9 days into the new year and it feels like we’ve only had 2014 rolling for about three days. Last…

  • Looking Back at 2013

    Here’s how 2013 shook out for me: Writing Books written: 3               — Hell Bent, Stone Cold, House Immortal Short stories written: 2   — Life Between Dreams, The Lost The Found Books revised: 2               — Hell Bent, Stone Cold Books copy edited: 3       — Cold Copper,…

  • How About Extra and Free?

    Upcoming Signing: Diana Pharaoh Francis and I  will be signing books and hanging out to chat on Saturday, August 24th at 4:00 pm at Escape Fiction in Salem, Oregon.   I’ll post more about the signing next week, and I might even have some advanced copies…

  • Good Times

    Sorry for the blog silence the last couple weeks.  It’s been busy around the old Monkstead.  As is our custom, we threw a big family/friend 4th of July barbecue, fireworks, and birthday celebration at our house. Right after that, I headed up to GEAR Con…

  • Release Day! Cold Copper

    COLD COPPER, the third in my Age of Steam series, is out today! If you haven’t had a chance to read my steampunk books, I’m happy to say the first in the series DEAD IRON is out in (cheaper) paperback format, so you can start…

  • Contest to win Cold Copper

    There’s a contest to win a galley of COLD COPPER on Facebook!  Here’s the link. COLD COPPER is the third book in my steampunk series and takes the characters we met in DEAD IRON and TIN SWIFT onward to new (and of course dangerous) adventures…

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