Hello, and welcome to the Prosperity Blog
Tour, celebrating Riptide Publishing’s release of Prosperity. Thank you so much
to Cup o' Porn for
hosting me. And, to you, dear reader, for stopping by.
I’m trying something a little different
with this blog tour. I would very much
like to invite you to join me over on Facebook at the Steampunk Flashgroup.
A flashgroup is sort of a Facebook pop up
shop. It’s a short-term group that will be active for the length of the Prosperity blog tour. I’ll be over there
all week, and a little bit after, talking about the book, giving away many,
many things, posting exclusive excerpts of Prosperity
and the upcoming sequels, answering any questions, and generally having a ball.
I do hope you will pop along and be part of
the conversation.
I also have postcards showcasing the
absolutely stunning Prosperity artwork. If you would like one, please join the
group and drop me a message, and I will be delighted to send one winging your
way.
Prosperity
A
breathtaking tale of passion and adventure in the untamed skies!
Prosperity, 1863: a lawless skytown where
varlets, chancers, and ne’er-do-wells risk everything to chase a fortune in the
clouds, and where a Gaslight guttersnipe named Piccadilly is about to cheat the
wrong man. This mistake will endanger his life . . . and his heart.
Thrill! As our hero battles dreadful kraken above Prosperity. Gasp! As the miracles of clockwork
engineering allow a dead man to wreak his vengeance upon the living. Marvel! At the aerial escapades of
the aethership, Shadowlesss.
Beware! The licentious and unchristian example set by the opium-addled
navigatress, Miss Grey. Disapprove
Strongly! Of the utter moral iniquity of the dastardly crime prince,
Milord. Swoon! At the dashing
skycaptain, Byron Kae. Swoon Again! At
the tormented clergyman, Ruben Crowe.
This volume (available in print, and for
the first time on mechanical book-reading devices) contains the complete
original text of Piccadilly’s memoirs as first serialised in All the Year Round. Some passages may
prove unsettling to unmarried gentlemen of a sensitive disposition.
About
Alexis Hall
Alexis Hall was born in the early 1980s and
still thinks the 21st century is the future. To this day, he feels cheated that
he lived through a fin de siècle but inexplicably failed to drink a single
glass of absinthe, dance with a single courtesan, or stay in a single garret.
He did the Oxbridge thing sometime in the
2000s and failed to learn anything of substance. He has had many jobs,
including ice cream maker, fortune teller, lab technician, and professional
gambler. He was fired from most of them.
He can neither cook nor sing, but he can
handle a 17th century smallsword, punts from the proper end, and knows how to
hotwire a car.
He lives in southeast England, with no cats
and no children, and fully intends to keep it that way.
Connect with
Alexis:
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Gaslamp
Fortnight: A Steampunk Book Tour – October 27th – November 7th
Authors L.A. Witt, Alexis Hall, and
Cornelia Grey come together on a Steampunk book tour to celebrate the releases
of Precious Metals, Prosperity, and Circus of the Damned.
Join us on adventures through the lawless,
untamed, kraken-infested skies! Trek the snowy wilds of the Klondike in the
company of a Mountie! Visit a soul-stealing circus where entertainment is at
your own risk! Riptide's Gaslamp Fortnight will tempt you with the steampunk
and gaslamp worlds of Cornelia Grey, Alexis Hall, and L.A. Witt.
And Gaslamp Fortnight is featuring a
fabulous giveaway! Comment on the tour stops for a chance to win a $250 gift
certificate to Harlots and Angels Steampunk Corsetry and get your own
custom corset or personalized steampunk gear. Each new post you comment on
earns you an entry into the drawing, so be sure to check out the rest of the tour schedule, too!
Harlots
and Angels
Hello I’m Sharon Ince and I own Harlots and Angels. We are a UK based company
that creates unusual sewing and crafting patterns, clothing, corsetry, props
and accessories with a wide range of themes from Steampunk, Sci-Fi, Victorian,
Gothic and Burlesque.
We have produced work for a large diversity
of clients, including The Disney Corporation, the BBC costuming department, Sky
TV, Working Title films as well as several Hollywood production companies and
local theatre and film productions.
I have always loved to design and I’m
self-taught. In fact I started at the early age of about 5 years old and have
never stopped. I love to work with leather, sew natural fabrics, sculpt, and
build my house with stone and wood; though my real passion is to design.
When I am starting out on a new design the
hours fly by and I’m lost in the perfect bliss of experimenting, mathematical
calculation, followed by the thrill of seeing the idea become reality.
My love of Gothic literature, mad inventors
and scientists and all things Victorian has always filtered through my thoughts
and designs, so when I first discovered the emerging Steampunk community some
years ago many of my creations found their family niche.
Sounds interesting
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I am loving Prosperity so much! You need to go look at all the gorgeous covers and then read the book.
ReplyDeleteReally love the cover for the book, the artwork is gorgeous. I can't wait to read this, love Alexis and steampunk is a favorite genre of mine.
ReplyDeleteAaaand excuse me while I lose a few hours in that Etsy store. :)
ReplyDeleteI really love the cover.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much.
ReplyDeleteI hope readers are finding this amazingly wonderful book!
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