Faux ad of Spire City–entertainment!
Spire City isn't only infections, callous wealthy, and dirty alleys and tunnels. People can enjoy themselves here. When they aren't running for their lives... So maybe they'll even get a chance to hear this traveling troupe:Like the last ad, this is a ......
Spire City 50% off sale!
If you want to patronize stores outside the Amazon milieu, Smashwords is a great source for buying ebooks. This week is Read an Ebook Sale at Smashwords, and all my Spire City novels/seasons are on sale there. Season One: Infected, Season Two: Pursued,......
Faux ad of Spire City: Banking!
Where do the people of Spire City go for their banking? Probably not here if they have the steampunk equivalent of a good credit score... But if not, this is the place to go. This is one of the ads that would have crossed multiple columns of the Spire...
Return of the Spire City ads
Lots of talk about ads today... Here are some very different kinds of advertising.It was roughly 11 years ago when I began the pre-writing for the Spire City episodes, dreaming up the characters, the effects of their terrible infections, and details of......
Hopepunk? Do we really need a label like that?
While I was traveling recently I happened to read the Vox think piece about "Hopepunk." The (genre-ish) label was coined by Alexandra Rowland, so I followed up later reading on Twitter some of her thoughts on it, her elaborations and exp......