Rayne Hall's next anthology, Cogwheels: Ten Tales of Steampunk, will soon be released. It features my first venture into this fantastic genre. For more about Steampunk and a behind-the-scenes peek into my story, "Hole in the Sky", please read a previous blog post: On Writing Steampunk.
To celebrate the tenth book in the Ten Tales series, this issue
contains two bonus stories in addition to the regular ten. This makes twelve great stories, each told in
a different style, each representing a different facet of the Steampunk genre.
Here are the writers whose stories are featured in the book:

Liv can be found on-line at her website and blog
(www.livrancourt.com), on Facebook (www.facebook.com/liv.rancourt), or on
Twitter (@LivRancourt).

She is also the editor of
the anthology, Hell's Garden: Mad, Bad and Ghostly Gardeners.
She and her
family live in Hell's Kitchen, NYC in a building next to a bedeviled garden.
Gremlins, sprites or pixies, something mischievous, lurks therein. Someday
she'll find out. Find her on www.aprilgrey.blogspot.com and www.aprilgreywrites.com.
BOB
BROWN writes from his estates in Kiona Washington with his goldfish, koi, chickens,
pugs, cats, and wife. He is the author
of numerous short stories as well as the children's book "The Dragon, the
Damsel, and the Knight," and the "The Lost Enforcer," with Irene
Radford. In his day job, Bob is a
scientist at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State.
NIED
DARNELL aka
Beth Daniels, J.B. Dane and Beth Henderson, describes her writing identity as
“a very split personality”. A published
novelist since 1990, she has tallied 28 published books, a handful of short
stories and writing related articles as well as presented online workshops on
writing. Tucked in the American Midwest in Ohio, she is currently hammering the
gears in place on a Weird West trilogy.
Visit her at www.WritingSteampunk.com
or on Twitter @BethDaniels1.

Her
recent publications are available in Daily Science Fiction, Crossed Genres
anthology Oomph - A Little Super Goes a Long Way, Sword & Laser, and
GrayHaven Comics' anti-bullying issue You Are Not Alone. Two more comics are due to be released this
year, as well as several short stories, and the anthology “Trust &
Treachery” for which she served as co-editor.
Her two film shorts were recently shown on local Virginia cable
television, and two more are in pre-production. She is an active member of the
Cat Vacuuming Society of Northern Virginia Writing Group, a member of Women in
Film and Video, and a graduate of the VONA/Voices Writing Workshop.
When
not working on fiction, Day is Senior Policy Advisor with the U.S. Department
of Labor. She has also worked as a
lobbyist and political analyst on issues relating to Health care, Education,
Employment, Disability, and International Development. She is a proud member of the U.S. Coast Guard
Auxiliary, loves action movies, and drinks far too much tea. She lives in Washington, DC with her wife,
N.R. Brown, in a house with too many swords, comic books, and political
treatises.
She can
be found online at www.DayAlMohamed.com and Twitter @DayAlMohamed.

He lives in a rural part of
the UK with his wife and a number of animals, and will soon release his
supernatural horror novel, The Shadow Fabric.
You can read his blog at www.beneath.co.uk and find him on: Twitter
@Mark_Cassell or Facebook www.facebook.com/AuthorMarkCassell

MORGAN
A. PRYCE is
a writer and academic based in Bangkok who has published both fiction and
non-fiction, mostly in Southeast Asia. Morgan shares her thoughts and the
occasional story at www.morganpryce.wordpress.com and on Twitter under
@morgan_pryce.
JONATHAN BROUGHTON lives on the south coast of
England. He has written many short stories that range from the paranormal to
the urban which he has compiled into one volume, Dark Reunion: Twenty Short
Stories.
Many of these stories have appeared in other Ten
Tales books - Scared: Ten Tales of Horror, Bites: Ten Tales of Vampires,
Cutlass: Ten Tales of Pirates, Beltane: Ten Tales of Witchcraft, Dragon: Ten
Tales of Fiery Beasts and Haunted:
Ten Tales of Ghosts.
In 2014 he published his first crime thriller, Running
Before The Midnight Bell which is set in Hastings and St Leonards-on-Sea,
England. In 2012 he won the Death Throes e-zine flash fiction
competition.
You can follow Jonathan on Twitter:
@jb121jonathan. Or join him on Facebook:
www.facebook.com/jonathan.broughton.5.

RAYNE HALL has published more than fifty books in several languages under several pen
names with several publishers in several genres, mostly fantasy, horror and
non-fiction. She is the author of the
bestselling Writer's Craft series and editor of the Ten Tales anthologies.
Having lived in Germany, China, Mongolia and
Nepal, she has now settled in a small dilapidated town of former Victorian
grandeur on the south coast of England where she enjoys reading, gardening and
long walks along the seashore. She shares her home with a black cat adopted
from the cat sanctuary. His name is Sulu and he's the perfect cat for a writer
– except when he claims ownership of her keyboard.
You can follow here on Facebook www.facebook.com/RayneHallAuthor and Twitter @RayneHall where she posts advice for writers, funny cartoons and cute
pictures of her cat.

UPDATE!
Cogwheels: Ten Tales of Steampunk
is now in these online bookshops:
Apple (itunes/ibooks)
Barnes&Noble (Nook)
Amazon (Kindle)
Page Foundry (Inktera)
Scribd
Apple (itunes/ibooks)
Barnes&Noble (Nook)
Amazon (Kindle)
Page Foundry (Inktera)
Scribd
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Author photo (c)Christopher Shoebridge |
His debut novel, The Shadow Fabric, is a supernatural story and is available from Amazon.
Twitter: @Mark_Cassell ~ Facebook: www.facebook.com/AuthorMarkCassell
Great to be in this collection of Ten Tales with so many wonderful writers. Here's to all our success.
ReplyDeleteThanks for hosting, Mark
Thanks so much Mark for doing the cover reveal on your block. And thanks, Rayne, for having my story in Cogwheels!
ReplyDeleteLOL. Make that blog, not block. Time for more coffee!
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun bunch of writers! Thanks for pulling this post together, Mark. I look forward to reading everyone's work.
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Good company to be with. BTW, my contact is Kionadad@aol.com not as shown above.
ReplyDeleteSorry about that, Bob. All fixed now.
DeleteI'm excited about this volume. The stories are superb. Of course I'm biased, because I selected them. :-)
ReplyDeleteI thought Sulu had a hand in that, too? ;)
DeleteMy TBR pile gets heavier and heavier. Looking forward to this one. I recognize some of these fine writers. Congrats and much success to you all!
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