>Dark Deeps Released in the US of A!

>?Well, yesterday The Dark Deeps was released in the US. It's making a big splash! It's going full fathom five! It's going all Davey Jones' Locker on the charts...err, that last one doesn't sound so good. There was a big Book Birthday Bash on Twitter, always lots of fun. The virtual cake was delicious! I especially enjoyed the oceanic Horse Doovers...ordervers, 'orsderves. Ah, I should just give up on talking fancy.

Starting Friday I'll be doing a "steampunkalooza" blog tour. It'll begin right here on my blog, where I'll talk about the joy of receiving author's copies. Mmmm. Free copies.

On Saturday I'll be at Cynsations discussing how to write steampunk in two easy steps.

On Sunday I'll zip over to Free The Princess and answer a few Q&A's.

Monday you'll find me at Age of Steam. Here I'll discuss the creation of the book trailers for The Hunchback Assignments.

Tuesday I'll airship over to Steampunk Tribune to discuss villains! Villains! Villains.

Wednesday, I'll take the steam train to Suvudu to let you all know that music is the real inspiration for the Hunchback series. Yes, that question everyone wants to know about everyone else...what is on your iPod?

Thursday Ah, I feel scholarly. I'll be heading over to Steampunk Scholar to wax on about steampunky things.

And Friday, the blog tour will come to a stop at Looking Glass Review to try and do the impossible. That's right I'll attempt to define steampunk.

Then I'll take off my goggles and snooze...
Art

>Another Jolting pic!

>Jolted
I recently received another cool "book" pic from Tu Loan Trieu, a Teacher Librarian in BC. My books get to go to the greatest places! Though, I must say that she's amazingly brave reading a novel about lightning on top of a mountain. Rumours are that the abominable snowman took the picture.

Cheers,

Art

P.S. Actually the picture is part of a "get caught reading" promotion that her school is doing. The idea is to take books to picturesque places then take pictures of them. Lucky books!

>One of the Coolest Pics That I've Received

>Every once in awhile some cool things come your way. ?I recently received this photo from Eric Walters, a fellow writer and a friend of mine. It's a photo of two students in Kenya reading my novel DUST. You just never know where your book is going to end up once you release it to the world.

Eric sent the pic because he has been working tirelessly on a project called Creation of Hope that involves a children's residence in Kikima, Kenya. They recently opened a library there ? named after Eric's grade five teacher. There's a lot more going on than I can describe here and help is always needed, so if you're interested click the link and read all about it.

Cheers,

Art

>US Release of (sniff) The Hunchback Assignments paperback

>It's a birthday, of sorts. Today the paperback of The Hunchback Assignments is released in the U.S. I, of course, will give you a complimentary link to Amazon but encourage readers to visit the bookstore of your choice if interested in this humble offering. If you do see the book please tell it that I am very proud of it and wish it well in this new format. Sniff. Sniff. Sorry, I promised myself I wouldn't cry...but it's so young and petite and gosh where is my hankie? My kingdom for a hankie! Just fly and be free Hunchback Assignments. Be free!

Art