Maddie's Marvelous Debut

While I was busy plotting and conniving to squeeze more remarkable clockwork critters into the next Maddie Hatter adventure, THIS happened:

That's right! Our delightful damsel and her high-flying pursuit of the Deadly Diamond hit the very top of the Fiction Charts in Calgary! 

Can an author BE more excited than I am today?

Come for Coffee with Jayne

Ask your questions about Maddie Hatter, the Deadly Diamond, the airships, the clockwork birds, or any other aspect of Maddie's first, fun-filled Steampunk adventure.

Bring your favourite beverage in your favourite mug or teacup.

Live online interview  
Saturday, October 17, 2015
1 p.m. Mountain Time

Your invitation to the launch

Maddie's in the house!

The publishing house, that is. Only six days in advance of the launch at Owls Nest Books in Calgary SW. Not that we were getting nervous or anything....

Anyway, here's the first view of the second edition. This one is lacking Robin's working drawings from the special-run conference edition (those are all gone to good homes weeks ago), but it has six lovely line drawings scattered through the text.

Soon to be available in-store at Owls Nest Books. They'll take phone or online orders, and if you can't get to the launch, ask them to hold an autographed copy for you.

More launch details coming very soon! Look for news of our wonderful musical guests!

Also available now for Kindle, Kobo, and paperback pre-order via Tyche Books, 
Chapters/Indigo,  
Barnes & Noble, 
Book Depository
and Amazon

Maddie Hatter and the Deadly Diamond

Here at last is the full cover for my upcoming Steampunk Adventure, "Maddie Hatter and the Deadly Diamond."  Artist credit goes to the immensely vibrant and talented Robin Kaplan (aka The Gorgonist).

 
 Back cover reads:

Miss Maddie Hatter, renegade daughter of a powerful Steamlord, is scraping a precarious living as a fashion reporter when the story of a lifetime falls into her lace-gloved hands:

 Baron Bodmin, an adventurer with more failed quests than fingernails, has vanished in circumstances that are odd even for him.

While he is supposedly hunting the fabled Eye of Africa diamond in the Nubian desert, his expeditionary airship is found adrift off the coast of England. Maddie was the last reporter to see the potty peer alive. If she can locate the baron or the Eye of Africa, her career will be made.

Outraged investors and false friends complicate her quest, and a fiendish figure lurks in the shadows, ready to snatch the prize . . . at any price.

The novella is coming out October 5, 2015 in e-book and print from Tyche Books in Calgary, although some lucky folks got their hands on the special conference edition this past weekend at the wonderful 'When Words Collide' readers'/writers' festival this weekend.

Welcome to Clockworks & Crime

Clockworks & Crime is a gathering place for information on all my published writing in Steampunk, crime/mystery, historical and alternate/SFF. Novellas, short stories, articles, plays, and maybe the occasional poem will be listed here, linked where appropriate.

This month - August 2015 - my Steampunk novella, Maddie Hatter and the Deadly Diamond is launching a special limited edition (including exclusive interior artworks) at When Words Collide: A Festival for Readers and Writers. The fun and fabulous Robin Kaplan cover is secret until Friday, August 14th, but the daily teasers are updated here.

 Enter to win one of the numbered editions by commenting below, or Tweeting or Sharing any of these teasers

 As well as Maddie Hatter's inaugural adventure, I have short stories in two anthologies this month:

'Sudden Death' - a hockey story with as many crooks as there are goals scored - is one among many

great stories in AB Negative from 
Coffin Hop Press

'Quest for Parts' appears in Enigma Front
 (Analemma Books)




 Yes, it has been a fun summer getting ready for all these launches. Next week I'll post pictures of the various festivities, and the notable moments from When Words Collide.