Category: News

TICKER cover art

Feast your eyes upon the shiny, for the cover gods and goddesses continue to smile upon me! Publication date has now been set to December 1, 2014, so set the timers on you SugarWerks Carry-Away Cake Boxes and let’s synchronize our pocket watches! Also, don’t forget you can preorder now (highly advised, because reasons!)


July 22, 2014 0

TICKER now available for preorder!

According to the Bazalgate Evening Gazette, you can now trade your hard-earned coin for a copy of a most excellent steampunk adventure by a Young Adult Author Of Good Reputation (and Impeccable Taste in Corsetry.) Step this way, if you please.


April 17, 2014 0

Mechanical Omphaloskepsis

om·pha·lo·skep·sis. noun \ˌäm(p)-fə-lō-ˈskep-səs\ : contemplation of one’s navel as an aid to meditation; also : navel-gazing # The title of this entry is a tag that I first started using on LiveJournal. From an entry dated May 28, 2008: My dear friend Sunil Sebastian suggested someone in the new novel have a bionic navel. To…
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December 4, 2013 0

Tiny Elephant, ahoy!

The announcement has appeared in Publishers Weekly, so I can finally share the exciting news that the talented Taeeun Yoo will be illustrating STRICTLY NO ELEPHANTS. Her work is absolutely lovely, and I am thrilled beyond measure. Taeeun’s Etsy store is full of her beautiful art prints, and she also keeps a blog here, which…
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November 1, 2013 0

Strictly No Elephants

Once there was a small child and his tiny elephant. They needed a forever-home, so they wandered up streets and down, knocking on doors, always hoping… And then, at the top of a tall flight of stairs and behind an apple-red door, a lady with brown hair and smiling eyes invited them to stay a…
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October 9, 2013 3

The contact page is live!

Check it out and send love and pink unicorns with cupcake impaled upon their horns (cupcake-kebobs? Cake-a-bobs?) Or send suggestions for other things you’d like to see on the site!


April 30, 2012 0