Tag Archives: Steampunk
Now We Get On to Book Three!
First there was One: The Marvelous Mechanical Man Then there were Two: The Nearly Notorious Nun So excited that the second book is done! Can’t wait to get started polishing Book Three: The Incredibly Irritating Irishman! The first draft … Continue reading
All the Beta Reads Are In!
I will have a little more work to do on The Nearly Notorious Nun to integrate some really valid points but I am still on track for my personal time-table, and hope to have it submitted to Amazon by Monday. Cross … Continue reading
Sorry to have been silent…
…but there has been a lot going on in the background! The Nearly Notorious Nun is out for one final read with some new beta-readers, and I got a good response from the first one. I am hoping that the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alistair, Alistair Conn, beta readers, Brad Fraunfelter, Ghosts Gears and Grimoires, Jo, Jo Mann, Josephine Mann, Raluca Caragea, Rie Sheridan Rose, Steampunk, The Atrocious Automaton Army, The Conn-Mann Chronicles, The Incredibly Irritating Irishman, The Nearly Notorious Nun, Victorian, Wojciech Wojcik
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Getting Ready for SoonerCon
Didn’t get the second book finished by the end of May. Probably won’t before SoonerCon June 24–26, 2016, but I might. But I will be taking the first book to SoonerCon, and I will be bringing some surprises of the Steampunk variety. … Continue reading
S.M.A.R.T. Goals Moving Forward…
I was listening to a Toastmasters speech on goal-setting the other day, and the speaker mentioned using the S.M.A.R.T. system to define goals and keep on track. We’re going to give it a shot. What exactly is a S.M.A.R.T. goal? The … Continue reading
Things are Proceeding…
On several fronts, actually. Just turned in my edits for Jo’s time-travel adventure “It’s…Complicated” which will appear in Lightships and Sabers from Wolfsinger Publications next month. I can hardly wait. There are some great people in this anthology. And I love … Continue reading
Worked on the Website Some
I spent some time thinking, and revamped the site yesterday. I think that it will be better in the long run. I have grouped the novels under one page with breakouts, and made a page for my new merchandising efforts. Of … Continue reading
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Tagged novels, Rie Sheridan Rose, Steampunk, The Conn-Mann Chronicles, website, Writing
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Moving On…
Now that the kittens are taken care of, we have a lot of other things to figure out. I know that things are going very slowly…slower than I had hoped. This is something I apologize for, but I really want … Continue reading
How Much Research is Too Much Research?
Going off last week, How much research is too much research? I have a tendency to dive into the research and go off on tangents. This can be distracting and a HUGE time sink as well as fascinating and mind … Continue reading
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Tagged research, Rie Sheridan Rose, Steampunk, The Conn-Mann Chronicles, World-building
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