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Contrary to popular belief that steampunk is dead, and thinking that maybe you missed the recent announcement on The Shared Desk or the Ministry website, I wanted to bring the news and the official launch date for the next project from Imagine That! Studios…
[Read more…] about Set your pocket watches! New Steampunk Fiction coming soon…
Nothing gets Pip and me more tickled than getting a nod from the steampunk community, particularly as we are so very new to the genre. When we took The Airship Award, we were happy dancing quite cheerfully as this was an award by the community, from the community.
Once again, thanks to The Steampunk Chronicle, we are happy dancing again.
The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences just announced their nominations in the Steampunk Chronicle’s 2012 Readers Choice Awards. You can finds us nominated for the following categories:
Please register and sign in (completely free) to show your support.
Keep up with the progress on this and other Ministry news at MinistryofPeculiarOccurrences.com and show your support for us at The Steampunk Chronicle.
And thanks for the love, folks. Not only well-timed, but most welcomed.
I’ve met a lot of incredible people in what will be ten years (come May) as an author. One real stand-out started as a star-struck business proposition between myself and Lani Tupu. People know him best for Captain Crais in Farscape, but Lani is a pretty multi-talented, multi-faceted dude. Artist. Teacher. Just an all-around good guy. There are two conversations with him that have always stayed with me, and this weekend one of those conversations came back with a vengeance.
We (me, Lani, and our agent, Jean Orrico) were having a post-convention meal, following the first run of our workshop, From Page to Stage. I remember the subject turned to acting, and how I had resigned that I would not be returning to the stage.
Now this was before I had met Pip in person and understood just how dangerous it is to anger a kiwi. And Lani, when that resignation left my lips, was angry.
“You never stop being an actor!†he stated (quite passionately), “The stage will always be with you, and it will be waiting for you when you return.â€
It was more about the zeal behind his statement that stuck with me, and maybe at the time I thought “Spoken like a true-blue actor.†Lani’s sentiment was well intended, but I just felt like I had taken a different path at that crossroad.
This weekend, that changed. [Read more…] about All the World’s an (Audio) Stage: Wherein an Actor Embraces His Muse Once Again
This weekend was a productive one, started with Pip building a case (pardon the pun) for dusting off a manuscript that disappeared into the sunset back in 2009. It has been, of all of my works, the most requested of my works for a sequel.
It was a pretty intense conversation between Pip and myself…
PIP: Tee, I really want to get Billi out in a digital format.
ME: Okay.
PIP: *blink-blink* Um…okay….
Yeah, pretty gripping, I know.
So now, after two years of being out of print, Imagine That! Studios as part of EXPERIMENT 2012 brings you…
 
I did say last year that I believed I would return to this alternative Chicago where a dwarf detective would stand toe-to-toe with Al Capone, and now it is happening. The story is still the same. We just have the book in new formats now. Kindle? Nook? Kobo? Yeah, we got you covered.
Why now? I was asked by Myke Cole in a recent roundtable discussion on John Mireau’s Serving Worlds podcast when you know it’s time to release a title on your own. Could it have anything to do with this rakish gent? [Read more…] about I Dream of Peter Dinklage: A Dwarf Detective Returns
I’ve been called a hipster before, and each time I flinch. I find the whole “hipster” movement to be a pimp slap in the same vein as the Grunge movement felt when Grunge suddenly found itself going mainstream. I remember how odd a fashion statement bred of thrift stores was suddenly finding itself in upscale malls and European catwalks, and I find equally odd the hipster movement.
I believe there is a fine line between a geek and a hipster, but leave it to Geeks Are Sexy to come up with an infographic that shows that line being so fine that — in some instances — it just isn’t there.
From: BecomeCareer.com
Drawing these lines in the sand is nothing new to Geeks Are Sexy as they ran an infographic on Geeks Vs. Nerds. Funny thing — right now, Sonic Boom is digging on calling her dad a “Nerd.” Not sure where it is coming from, but there it is. Between the three, I prefer “Geek” if you feel the need for labels.
Granted, if you’re going to use labels, call me Tee. That’s the best one of all.
Roughly six weeks ago, as you might have heard on a recent episode of The Shared Desk, a friend of ours — Lisa-Anne Moore — introduced me, Pip, and Sonic Boom to the new Activision game Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventures. Sonic Boom was intrigued by the concept of this game, that concept being that at any point you can swap out characters within a game, all dependent on what you need at that moment. The Boom perked up, however, when she heard about a character named “Sonic Boom.â€
Imagine her elation when she found the character of Sonic Boom was a girl.
From the Skylanders Portal Masters’ website, here’s Sonic Boom’s story: [Read more…] about Skylanders: Where Gamer Girls (and Their Characters) Kick Butt Too!
