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Skyjackers: Season One #1
A Proper Nuisance
For Vivian Caine, becoming the world’s most fearsome airship pirate comes with its share of obstacles. The largest is her family, helmed by notorious outlaw and misguided patriarch Benedict Caine, whose name alone is enough to strike terror into the hearts of millions. Vivian’s mother and three siblings are anything but interested in pursuing the family business, so things take a sour turn when they cross paths with fresh-faced idealist Captain Jonathan Thorpe, a recent graduate of the Sky Marshal Academy tasked with enforcing order and justice across the skies. As Thorpe and the Caine family engage in a wild cat-and-mouse game rife with incredible capers and narrow getaways, Vivian must weigh her swashbuckling life of crime against the unwelcome feelings she finds herself developing for the young captain.
- GenresSteampunk
62 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 6, 2016
About the author
J.C. Staudt
23 books15 followersJ.C. Staudt was born in Oceanside, New York, and moved to Virginia at the age of four, where he has lived ever since. He is a graduate of George Mason University, with a B.A. in Integrative Multimedia Studies, and he works for an Engineering and Consulting firm as a New Media Designer. He lives with his beautiful wife in a house lacking pets and children in Manassas, Virginia.
Staudt has been an unrepentant nerd for three decades and counting. He spends his weekends playing D&D and theorizing about every possible plot twist and untimely death (and undeath) that might occur in the next Game of Thrones novel. He writes science-fiction and fantasy across three distinct universes:
The Aionach - A dying world whose sun is so hot and close it's turned the entire planet into a wasteland. For fans of the Fallout video games, the Mad Max movies, and Stephen King's Dark Tower novels.
Esperon - A planet shattered centuries ago after a cataclysmic event of unknown origin, which gave rise to super-human beings called techsouls and islands that float on an anti-gravitational element called driftmetal.
Orothwain - A realm of goblins, elves, and dragons, where everyone talks like they're fresh off the boat from middle-ages Europe. You know the place. Magic and nature exist in polar opposition to one another, so magic users battle nature users like a fantasy rendition of crips and bloods.
Find him on Twitter @JCStaudtWrites or on his website, jcstaudt.com
Staudt has been an unrepentant nerd for three decades and counting. He spends his weekends playing D&D and theorizing about every possible plot twist and untimely death (and undeath) that might occur in the next Game of Thrones novel. He writes science-fiction and fantasy across three distinct universes:
The Aionach - A dying world whose sun is so hot and close it's turned the entire planet into a wasteland. For fans of the Fallout video games, the Mad Max movies, and Stephen King's Dark Tower novels.
Esperon - A planet shattered centuries ago after a cataclysmic event of unknown origin, which gave rise to super-human beings called techsouls and islands that float on an anti-gravitational element called driftmetal.
Orothwain - A realm of goblins, elves, and dragons, where everyone talks like they're fresh off the boat from middle-ages Europe. You know the place. Magic and nature exist in polar opposition to one another, so magic users battle nature users like a fantasy rendition of crips and bloods.
Find him on Twitter @JCStaudtWrites or on his website, jcstaudt.com
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June 1, 2016
Full Review on thesteamingmind.com
Once again we seek an answer to that eternal question “What’s more dangerous, piracy or love?” Well, if you ask Captain Jonathan Thorpe, he might tell you they’re one and the same. Skyjackers, the prequel to J.D. Staudt’s Driftmetal series takes place in a world just starting to shatter. The very event that effects the setting of Driftmetal
There’s a fantastic Terry Gilliam (director of Time Bandits, Brazil, and Twelve Monkeys) feel to the characters. The ridiculous personalities, but grounded emotions in the characters, are not only entertaining, but provide a complete three dimensional feel to them.
We must understand this is the first episode in a series and should be treated as such, but the magnificent thing is that it contains its own story and helps to set up for the next one. Staudt is one of the best self-published writers on the market and deserves the attention of every techno-pirate, nevertech, steampunk, clockpunk and gaslight romance enthusiast out there
Once again we seek an answer to that eternal question “What’s more dangerous, piracy or love?” Well, if you ask Captain Jonathan Thorpe, he might tell you they’re one and the same. Skyjackers, the prequel to J.D. Staudt’s Driftmetal series takes place in a world just starting to shatter. The very event that effects the setting of Driftmetal
There’s a fantastic Terry Gilliam (director of Time Bandits, Brazil, and Twelve Monkeys) feel to the characters. The ridiculous personalities, but grounded emotions in the characters, are not only entertaining, but provide a complete three dimensional feel to them.
We must understand this is the first episode in a series and should be treated as such, but the magnificent thing is that it contains its own story and helps to set up for the next one. Staudt is one of the best self-published writers on the market and deserves the attention of every techno-pirate, nevertech, steampunk, clockpunk and gaslight romance enthusiast out there
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