Wednesday, July 24, 2019

It’s Hidebound Hump Day!

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Welcome, my chuckaboos! I promise you are at the right place. After many years of the same blog-look, I’ve changed things.

It is Hidebound Hump Day. For those of you who are new around here, “chuckaboo” is Victorian slang for dear friend.

Saturday I stopped wallowing in my indecision and did a poll to ask you which of two stories you wanted to read (and participate) as my next weekly serial. One was The Skull of the Alchemist. That is the next adventure for my fictionalized Cornelis Drebbel character. The other is not a series (at least not yet), called The Delta Pearl. Both are steampunk fantasies, and look like the Victorian Era.

Drebbel’s steampunk submarine and the Delta Pearl riverboat were in a race! Are you ready to know which won? Drum roll….. The winner…

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