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Beloved Children's Bookshop: Cover to Cover

Photograph by Bryan Loar Last week, while visiting Columbus, Ohio, I had the great pleasure of visiting Cover to Cover Books for Young Readers. If you love books and are in the area, this lovely independent bookshop is not to be missed. I spent over an hour perusing its well-curated titles and left with treasures. The friendly staff is highly knowledgeable and found time to help me navigate the…

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Best Steampunk Books

What is Steampunk? It’s a lot of things. It’s four Englishmen traveling across India in a huge, steam-powered mechanical elephant (Jules Verne, The Steam House, 1880). It’s fantastic airships, goggles on top hats, arcane gadgets, waistcoats and parasols. It’s Victorian England if the technologies of Victorian England never faded. It’s mechanical computers, spinning propellers, clanking machines…

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Grimalkin

At the back of the shop in a tall chair sat the largest and oldest cat I’d ever seen. He’d been white once, maybe. His ears were tattered and a single snaggletooth protruded past his raggedy cheek. Get the first six chapters for free! PDFEPUBKINDLE Signed paperback edition of Idiot Genius: Willa Snap and the Clockwerk Boy. Shipping included.For an added personal inscription, Email me at…

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The Typesetting of an Eye

The Typesetting of an Eye

As you slowly crack open the book, so do you creak open a door—only to find an eye staring back at you! At time of launch, I had the worst time getting printed paperback copies of Willa Snap and the Clockwerk Boy from Amazon’s press. A lot of little changes happen during the final weeks of getting a book to press, and time was getting short. With only a few weeks to go, every time I’d submit a…

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99¢ ($7 off) Willa Snap and the Clockwerk Boy Christmas Sale

99¢ ($7 off) Willa Snap and the Clockwerk Boy Christmas Sale

“What an absolutely mind-blowing, flame-throwing, steampunking adventure!!” —T. Crum“Amazing illustrations!”“Your passport is ready. Click purchase, and be prepared as the Black Fezzes start to circle.” Click HERE: 99¢

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Idiot Genius 99¢ Kindle Countdown

Idiot Genius 99¢ Kindle Countdown

“What an absolutely mind-blowing, flame-throwing, steampunking adventure!!” —T. Crum“Amazing illustrations!”“Your passport is ready. Click purchase, and be prepared as the Black Fezzes start to circle.” 99¢ USA 99p UK

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New Willa Snap and the Clockwerk Boy review!

New Willa Snap and the Clockwerk Boy review!

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What an absolutely mind blowing, flame throwing, steampunking adventure!!

What an absolutely mind blowing, flame throwing, steampunking adventure!!

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99¢ Kindle Countdown Your mother’s identified as an Idiot Genius, your family’s abducted to a strange new city—for safekeeping—and now your timeline’s in danger. What’s an ingenious 11-year-old to do? 99 cents, limited time.

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So, What Exactly is Steampunk?

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LitPick Reviews Willa Snap

LitPick Reviews Willa Snap

Willa Snap and the Clockwerk Boy is a charming epic of how a normal girl is whisked into an adventure beyond her wildest dreams. . . . [more]

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IndieReader on Idiot Genius

IndieReader on Idiot Genius

IndieReader had some very nice things to say about Idiot Genius: Willa Snap and the Clockwerk Boy.

January 15, 2019 / in Discovery Awards 2019 / by IR Staff

IR VERDICT:

Abducted into a secret world, eleven-year-old Willa Snap takes readers on an imaginative journey through a place filled with mechanical people and fantastical machines. There’s wit and passion in the dialogue as…

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Human Memory More Like Clockwerk Memory Than Previously Thought

Human Memory More Like Clockwerk Memory Than Previously Thought

That’s right! At least, according to two scientific papers (“Neural Mechanisms of Sustained Attention Are Rhythmic” and “A Dynamic Interplay within the Frontoparietal Network Underlies Rhythmic Spatial Attention”) published in Neuron last summer (Volume 99, Issue 4).

As you may have guessed, given the titles, these articles are not for the faint of heart. Not a subscriber? Luckily, the…

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99 CENTS! LIMITED TIME! — Idiot Genius: Willa Snap and the Clockwerk Boy Recognized by 5 literally awards: Click HERE Independent Publisher Book Award Medalist ~ Juvenile FictionNational Indie Excellence Award ~ Juvenile FictionWriter's Digest Self-Published Book Award Honorable Mention ~ Middle-Grade/Young AdultInternational Rubery Book Award Shortlist ~ Young AdultEric Hoffer Award Category Finalist ~ Young Adult

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Fun Things You May Enjoy Searching on the Internet, or in an Ancient, Smelly Fire Hazard of a Book Afterword page from Willa Snap and the Clockwerk Boy (paperback edition).

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99¢ Sale: Idiot Genius: Willa Snap and the Clockwerk Boy FIRST TIME EVER: 99 cents for Idiot Genius: Willa Snap and the Clockwerk Boy. (Amazon will only let me price it this low for a Kindle Countdown, due to file size from the fabulous illustrations, so have at it, folks.)

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Did Thomas Edison Really Build a Ghost Portal?

Did Thomas Edison Really Build a Ghost Portal?

“I have been at work for some time building an apparatus to see if it is possible for personalities which have left this earth to communicate with us.”

Thomas Edison, The American Magazine, 1920

“If our personality survives, then it is strictly logical and scientific to assume that it retains memory, intellect, and other faculties and knowledge that we acquire on earth . . .”

It was…

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