June 2010 Blog Posts (62)

Today just seemed to be a great day for steampunk for me! I'm currently in Missouri for a funeral, and my mother and I found this wonderful little antique store. I don't think they knew what they had! I found a wind up clock to take apart, an old box camera (said it was from 1909, only $20!!) And some very old protective glasses that I plan on wearing to teslacon. (pics below) And when we came back to the hotel, there was a documentary on the history channel about steam!! (however much I…

Dear Reader,

So these last couple of days saw the reboot of the screenplay wherein the design of the script is that it can be divided into 10-12 minute episodes for potential web broadcasting. Today I managed to retrieve much of the script and subsequently have 12 pages of script saved; just have to write the other 80 or so pages now.

The wonderful news is that I am now writing and working from my almost finished office which has been quite the learning…

Hello all!

My steampunk romance novella, 'Love in a Time of Steam' releases on July 15th, but it is available for pre-order now! You can follow this link http://tinyurl.com/2e2s6xx and for just 0.99 you can pre-order your copy! I am really trying to get at least 100 pre-orders, so if you like a little sexy romance with your steampunk give it a try!

Thanks!

Elizabeth Darvill…

Dear Reader,

Firstly let me caution you that this screenplay has nothing to do with steampunk; I merely use this as a journal of my writing efforts, however, once the screenplay is complete then I shall begin on my latest steampunk novel.

The screenplay is a horror "slash" flick I am writing for a friend who is an expert on cheap horror movies and being a video producer himself wishes to make a cheap horror movie. Today I fell into my cliche reboot of the story's outline, but…

Dear Reader,

It is with much embarrassment that I see there have been no journal entries from me since September MMIX, but suffice to say this past week I have started to write again. It is not the "steampunk" novel, no that's on the creative shelf for the moment, but I am working on a screenplay for a friend who is a professional videographer and wants to make a low budget horror movie.

I know very little on horror movies, but he is an expert. He admits to…

I've always wanted to start a webcomic, and I thought I'd post some of my stuff, and get some feedback. It's supposed to take moments out of my personal life, and express how I felt in a depressing and humorous way. That's what I'm going for at…

I went to a gun show today. I picked up a German hat rondel for Herr von Dreibach,a pistol magazine for myself and almost bought a model kit of the U.S.S. Arizona (my grand-uncle was executive officer). But the really neat thing I saw was a toy submarine.

It was metal, about 10 inches long, pointed on both ends. It had a conning tower of some sort in which was a way to access the wind up mechanism. The guy who was selling it had labeled it as being from World War One but I knew…

Ida B. Wells-Bennett. African-American activist who worked with anti-racist
British Quaker Catherine Impey. Image courtesy of eqadams63. Click for
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The concept of the British Empire arouses pride, pomp, and nationalism, but the darker side of the spread of English…