On A Cold Winter's Night and Other Fairy Tales ⚙️💖📚

Plus upcoming bookish events!

Hello!

I hope your February is going well. My week has been busy but fun so far! I attended book club (Temporal Textual Talks) virtually on Sunday night and we discussed Marcus Broaddus’ Buffalo Solider, a fun, pulpy steampunk read. I loved his take on alternate history!

Check out Buffalo Soldier’s gorgeous cover art!

This week I’m also finalizing details about my panels for DemiCon, which takes place May 3-5th. In addition to paneling, I’ll also be in the Dealer’s Room with my books and I’m planning to attend the BrassGears Adventurers Society’s room party. If there’s anything you’d love to know about alternate history in media, fairy tale retellings, crafting villains, or steampunk, please let me know in the comments! I may make my presentations available after the event like I did for my talk at TeslaCon.

I love her dress so much! While she doesn’t exactly look like main FMC in my WIP, the dress is definitely an inspiration for once of the scenes.

If you’re local to central Iowa, I’ll be at Johnston Library’s Read Local Author Fair on Saturday, February 24th, from 2-4 pm. I’ll have copies of Monsters and Machines, Forsaken Beauty and the Etherbeast, bookmarks, and postcards with me. Click here for the full list of attending authors. Come say hi if you’re in the area!

The event runs from 2-4 pm on Feb. 24th

For more events, visit this page on my website.

This month I’m participating in a group promo featuring fairy tales of all kinds. Check out On A Cold Winter’s Night and Other Fairy Tales to find your next read. All of these books are available in Kindle Unlimited. This group promo includes Forsaken Beauty and the Etherbeast, my reimagining of Beauty and the Beast.

This group promo ends March 1st!

Looking for more steampunk to add to your reading? I’m swapping newsletter mentions with two authors this week:

The Catalyst by LK Billips

Annabelle Sweeting has come to London. Set in a steampunk world, a country girl with a quirk for gears and fashion makes her way through the busy streets in the hopes of discovering herself. What she does discover, however, are two dashing men vying for her attention, an unexpected series of murders, and an underestimated talent for being in the middle of it all. Can she navigate her way through the haughty ton, help the handsome Constable Weston solve the murders, and not get killed herself?

Cressida’s Moon by Mikala Ash

History got it wrong. The first live human made it to the moon just before Christmas, 1865. Her name was Cressida Troy.

An assignation in a moonlit graveyard begins a perilous and sensual journey for plucky Cressida as she and her lovers track down an alien plot to conquer Earth.

Happy reading!

Kelsey