I am nearly done with the first draft of “The Silk Empress”, my first foray into steampunk misadventure. She says its my best book so far, though “Camp Arcanum” is still her favorite. That is no surprise since the whole trilogy is something of a love letter to her dressed up in a horror/comedy with undead skinless bunnies.

I generally suck at theme. Lois McMaster Bujold read the first few chapters and told me she thought the theme was about guilt and its corrosive power. I hadn’t seen it. Ex-Catholics write about guilt the way fish write about water. One thing I did explore intentionally was the concept of intimacy so intense it doubles as telepathy, and what happens in a relationship when that goes away, even temporarily. Anyone who has ever witnessed an empath or a witch going through pregnancy knows of what I speak.

I’ve been lucky that the Arcanum Faire books continue to sell after the rights reverted and I put on pretty new covers. I am engaging an Amazon promotion this Monday: the “Camp Arcanum” e-book will be only 99 cents from Monday through Friday. You can pick it up in the Northern Hemisphere while waiting for the world to thaw. Southern folks can read while waiting to see if they catch fire again. Either way, if you think you might be interested in a tale love, magick, & power tools, now is your chance for a cheap date.

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