Author Spotlight at Bell Bridge Books

February 24, 2017 Leave a comment

Over at Bell Bridge Books, I talk about how I came to love steampunk and how Jeremiah Willstone came to be!

Alright, I’ll admit it: I didn’t start out liking steampunk. When The Difference Engine came out, I just didn’t get it. I mean, Charles Babbage’s Difference Engines actually working, much less changing Victorian society? I didn’t buy it. Looking back, I think I just didn’t like alternate history, as I found other, similar novels off-putting.

But as I grew, I watched the steampunk movement grow too, hand in hand with the burgeoning maker community. At the same time I started attending the Maker Faire and admiring all the amazing contraptions our modern independent inventors were coming up with, I started noticing more and more steampunk costumes expressing the same kind of gutsy do-it-yourself, throw-it-all-together flair.

It all came together for me at Dragon Con 2009 …

To read more, check it out at the Bell Bridge Books blog!

-the Centaur

JW&TCTM Release: February 23rd, 2017

February 18, 2017 Leave a comment

Jeremiah Willstone and the Clockwork Time Machine will be out next week – February 23rd, 2017! Order it on Amazon, review it on Goodreads, or ask for it wherever fine books are sold!

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From an Epic Award winning author comes a sprawling tale of brass buttons, ray guns, and two-fisted adventure!

In an alternate empire filled with mechanical men, women scientists, and fantastic contraptions powered by steam, a high ranking officer in the Victoriana Defense League betrays his country when he steals an airship and awakens an alien weapon that will soon hatch into a walking factory of death.

Commander Jeremiah Willstone and her team must race through time in a desperate bid to stop the traitor’s plan to use the alien weapon to overthrow the world’s social order. With time running out, Jeremiah may have to sacrifice everything she is to save everyone she loves.

“Addictive, sassy, sexy, funny, intense, brilliant.” -Bitten By Books, on Frost Moon

Epic Award winner Anthony Francis writes the Dakota Frost, Skindancer series and the Jeremiah Willstone series while working on robots for “the Search Engine Which Starts with a ‘G’.”

The Adventures of Jeremiah Willstone is Open for Business!

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Hail, fellow adventurers! Welcome to the Adventures of Jeremiah Willstone, the website chronicling the stories of a time-traveling female soldier from the world next door, Victoriana! Here you’ll find news about her adventures in print and in audio, kicking off with her first full-length adventure, Jeremiah Willstone and the Clockwork Time Machine, available February 23rd, 2017 on Amazon – or, ask for it wherever fine books are sold! Jeremiah also appears in more than half a dozen stories scattered across nearly that many anthologies, so please feel free to look around the site, find out more about her, and pick up something to read!

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Jeremiah’s adventures are brought to you by Anthony Francis, AKA the Centaur…

Lieutenant Jeremiah Willstone

November 18, 2016 1 Comment

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Jeremiah as a Lieutenant, fresh out Academy – I imagine, fresh back from a jog. Done with pen, pencil, and white pencil on beige-tinted paper, with tone/level/color correction and light editing in Photoshop.

-the Centaur

Welcome to the World of Victoriana!

September 24, 2016 Leave a comment

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Hail, fellow adventurers! Jeremiah Willstone has just entered your reality, and this is her very first webpage! Stay tuned as the Expeditionaries from Victoriana learn how to manage the intricacies of these modern digital electronic computers!

Where’s the gear crank on this thing, anyway?