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Jeffrey Cook
Author Jeffrey Cook lives in Maple Valley, Washington, with his wife and three large dogs. He was born in Boulder, Colorado, but has lived all over the United States. He's contributed to a number of role-playing game books for Deep7 Press out of Seattle, Washington, but the Dawn of Steam series are his first novels. When not reading, researching or writing, Jeffrey enjoys role-playing games and watching football.
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In 1815, in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, two of England's wealthiest lords place a high-stakes wager on whether a popular set of books, which claim that the author has traveled to many unknown corners of the globe, are truth or, more likely, wild fiction. First Light is an epistolary novel, told primarily through the eyes of former aide-de-camp Gregory Conan Watts, describing the journeys of the airship Dame Fortuna and its crew through journals and letters to his beloved fiancee.
The first recruit is, necessarily, the airship's owner: war hero, famed genius, and literal knight in steam-powered armor Sir James Coltrane. Persuading him to lend his talents and refitted airship to the venture requires bringing along his sister, his cousin, and the crew that flew with him during the Napoleonic Wars. Only with their aid can they track down a Scottish rifleman, a pair of shady carnies, and a guide with a strong personal investment in the stories.
When they set out, the wild places of the world, including the far American West, the Australian interior, darkest Africa, and other destinations are thought to be hostile enough. No one expects the trip to involve a legendary storm – or the Year Without a Summer of 1815-1816. The voyage is further complicated by the human element. Some parties are not at all happy with the post-war political map. Most problematic of all, the crew hired by the other side of the wager seem willing to win by any means necessary.
DAWN OF STEAM: FIRST LIGHT
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In 1816, Gregory Conan Watts's chronicle of the adventures begun in Dawn of Steam: First Light continues – as does the Year Without a Summer. The crew of the airship Dame Fortuna travel to four continents and are embroiled in combat on three of them: conflict with New Spain in Britain's American colonies, an ambush in Machu Picchu, and entanglement in the Maori Potato Wars in New Zealand. As they progress through darkened skies, Gregory gradually discovers that nothing at all was as he thought it was. All his assumptions are cast into doubt: what their orders are, which tales of foreign lands are true, and what parts of the social order as he knows it really are natural. Also in doubt is whether they will all survive the experience.
Dawn of Steam: Gods of the Sun is an alternate-history, early-era Steampunk epistolary novel.
DAWN OF STEAM: GODS OF THE SUN
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1817 sees the first signs of recovery from the Year Without a Summer – and the beginning of the end of the journey of the airship Dame Fortuna. The crew first accept a unique offer from the Shogun of Japan, traveling with the Dutch contingent from the island of Dejima into the isolationist nation. From there, their travels will take them through the English colonies in Australia and India, into darkest Africa, and eventually home to England. Along the way, confrontations loom, and both personal secrets and national conspiracies are uncovered. By the time a future queen is born, nothing less than the fate of England and the direction of world events are at stake. Dawn of Steam: Rising Suns is an alternate-history, emergent Steampunk epistolary novel, following after Dawn of Steam: First Light and Dawn of Steam: Gods of the Sun.
DAWN OF STEAM: RISING SUNS
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Addy's boss has been murdered...
She's next. She's been folded into something that supernatural forces want, and it looks like she'll have no choice in the matter.
Tab's been through hell to make sure this sort of thing doesn't happen - literally. The red-winged Angel of Free Will cares vehemently about individual agency in human destiny. How much he cares about Addy herself may be another thing entirely, but at any rate, she has a better chance with him than with the rest of the Angelic family, Fallen or otherwise.
In a run for her life and a race in which the involvement of the Devil himself is considered among the least of their worries, Addy must find enough moments of calm to unfold the Angel's Grace inside her, learn from the visions it provides, and find the keys to Heaven and Hell.
AIRS & GRACES
ANGEL'S GRACE TRILOGY - BOOK 1 |
Tabbris, the Angel of Free Will, is in Hell.
Worse, the keys to the gates of Heaven and Hell have gone with him. Now, the hounds of Hell are close on his heels as he fights a desperate battle to keep the keys out of infernal hands, while trying to reach Earth once again. At least he prevented Adelaide from being dragged down with him.
Meanwhile, Adelaide is still possessed by the Angel of Visions, and Iaoel seems to be planning to stay, regardless of what Addy wants. Now, she's in search of a rogue angel to try and find a way into the underworld to rescue Tabbris...
Before all Hell breaks loose.
THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE ANGEL'S GRACE TRILOGY - BOOK 2 |
They’d only just found each other, and now they’ve been separated again…
Adelaide has been dragged deep inside her own mind to discover that she and Iaoel aren’t the only two inhabiting her body anymore. While two was company three is a crowd and Adelaide’s life hangs in the balance now more than ever. Meanwhile, Tab has been forced to leave her side and entrust her care to some unlikely guardians.
So much remains unresolved just as more tribulations are piled upon them. Battles are waged at the gates of Hell and new discoveries made.
The game is set, the pieces moving, but who are the real players behind them all?
A COUP DE GRACE ANGEL'S GRACE TRILOGY - BOOK 3 |
Airships and sky pirates! Brain Modification chips! Technologically enhanced nymphs! Shakespeare goes punk in this first volume of stories from Writerpunk Press (www.punkwriters.com). Profits to go to PAWS Lynwood (www.paws.org), an animal shelter and wildlife rescue. Ask a bunch of eclectic writers to write stories inspired by one of the greatest dramatists of all time. Cast the stories in various punk genres: Cyber, Tesla, Diesel, Steam, Clock. Result: an innovative collection of stories inspired by the Bard, with a twist! Punk stories show the path not taken or the path that shouldn't be taken. Let us reshape your world.
SOUND & FURY
SHAKESPEARE GOES PUNK |
Welcome to the world of Shakespeare Goes Punk, where the Bard is remixed and nothing is sacred. Our fearless writers are back by popular demand to give you a ride on the punk train.
Five punked-up tales and three sonnets inspired by Shakespeare. All profits to charity.
As You Like It
The Tragedy of Livingston (Coriolanus)
Blast the Past: Fae and Far Between (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Dogs of War (Julius Caesar)
Hank (Henry V)
Clockpunk Sonnets (18, 105, 127)
ONCE MORE UNTO THE BREACH SHAKESPEARE GOES PUNK 2 |
14 high school English class favorites reborn. 14 ’punk versions you’ll have to read to believe!
As a Connecticut Yankee is drawn from her bleak future life into the past, will the love and purpose she finds endure?
After the robot Tom Sawyer’s house burns down, will Aunt Polly be safe if she takes him in?
When Beowulf’s diesel-mechanized force of mercenaries goes up against their strongest foe yet, will it survive the conflagration that threatens their entire world?
What We’ve Unlearned: Classics Go Punk is the fourth book in the series of ’punk stories (steampunk, cyberpunk, dieselpunk and more) inspired by classic stories you likely read in high school English class. Original stories are by Hans Christian Andersen, Jane Austen, the Beowulf poet, Carlo Collodi, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Christopher Marlowe, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Mark Twain.
All profits are to be donated to PAWS Lynwoo d, an animal shelter and wildlife rescue located in the Pacific Northwest.
If you like a fresh take with a unique spin—including dirigibles, roaring diesel engines, and mechanical beings becoming alive—then you’ll love this anthology by Writerpunk Press.
Unlock What We’ve Unlearned: Classics Go Punk to stray a bit from the beaten path and reexamine what you love about your favorite stories.
With stories by: Jeffrey Cook, Carol Gyzander, Katherine Perkins, Lee French, Andrea Hintz, Anthony Stark, Nils Nisse Visser, J.S. Chlapowski, Jayelle King, Dorothy Goode, Rachel Brune, Michelle Cornwell-Jordan, Virginia Carraway Stark, Rachel Cherie, and Amber Michelle Cook.
WHAT WE'VE UNLEARNED
ENGLISH CLASS GOES PUNK |
A clockwork raven.
Two sets of irresistible teeth.
A house brought to life by nanobots.
A heart that won’t stop beating.
All this and much more in the Writerpunk Press version of the beloved suspense stories by Edgar Allan Poe. We’ve pulled out all the stops this time around to bring you the very best punked versions of classic Poe tales, complete with shiny gears and tiny bots!
In addition to the more familiar Cyberpunk and Steampunk, we’ve added Bio, Deco, and Dieselpunk genres to the mix. The resulting volume is a dynamic take on horror of which the Master of Macabre himself would be proud. Profits are to be donated to PAWS Lynnwood, an animal shelter and wildlife rescue located in the Pacific Northwest.
MERELY THIS AND NOTHING MORE EDGAR ALLAN POE GOES PUNK |
Eleven stories and one chilling poem, inspired by classic tales of terror and suspense.
Can Tesla’s invention animate the creature in the Wild West in time to save the girl?
What destroyed the cyber-greenhouses—was it the meteor from out of space?
How will the radiation affect her—and will love survive the transformation?
Hideous Progeny: Classic Horror Goes Punk is the fifth charity anthology from Writerpunk Press, with steampunk, cyberpunk, carniepunk, clockpunk, atompunk, and biopunk stories inspired by tales such as Dracula, Carmilla, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and Frankenstein (twice!). Other inspirations include Gaston LeRoux, Ambrose Bierce, Oscar Wilde, Franz Kafka, Lord Tennyson, and H. P. Lovecraft.
Profits are to be donated to PAWS Lynnwood, an animal shelter and wildlife rescue located in the Pacific Northwest.
Authors: Carol Gyzander, Jeffrey Cook, Katherine Perkins, Bryce Raffle, William J. Jackson, Mike Chinakos, Leo McBride, Teel James Glenn, Lee French, Rachel Brune, Anthony Stark, Jeanne M. White, K.M. Vanderbilt
HIDEOUS PROGENY
CLASSIC HORROR GOES PUNK |
The tradition of service runs deep. For the Tsukuda men, it comes with telekinesis.
The Captain Kinetic codename, a fixture in the Army's 11th Rangers battalion of supersoldiers for over six decades, rests firmly on Benjamin Tsukuda's shoulders. His grandfather fought under the name in World War II and his father fought under the name in Vietnam. On the day Ben retires, his teenage son will inherit their legacy. Until then, he serves his nation as the stalwart leader of a squad dedicated to saving lives and stopping rogue supers.
When the team is dispatched to Brazil for a covert mission, dark omens send them crashing into a conspiracy moving swiftly enough to set the world on fire and cast shadows over generations to come. Ben must choose between honor, duty, orders, and family to protect all he holds dear, including his own life.
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Lots of girls play Fairy Princess when they're little. Megan O'Reilly had no idea the real thing was like playing chess, guitar, and hockey all at once. Megan had known for a long time that she wasn't an entirely typical girl. But living with ADHD—and her mother's obsessions—was a very different thing from finding out she wasn't entirely human. Somewhere out there, in a completely different world, her father needs help. There's a conflict, revolving around Faerie seasonal rituals, that could have consequences for humanity—and if Megan's getting the terminology straight, it sounds like her family aren't even supposed to be the good guys. As she's further and further swept up in trying to save her father, Megan may be getting too good at not being human.
FOUL IS FAIR
THE FAIR FOLK CHRONICLES - BOOK ONE |
School is out for the summer, which will give Megan O'Reilly's friends time to see that she really starts learning something useful. When music is magic and magic is sometimes medicine, it's easy for a menehune BFF, a satyr rock star, and a disabled pixie with a service crow to give a girl information overload.
The weekend of the Fremont Solstice Fair is also the weekend of the Goblin Market. Megan's adjusted enough to this Unseelie Princess thing to see some use in all this colorful shopping potential, both real-world and magical, even if she can get ahead of herself sometimes.
But someone wants to use the Market for his own destructive purposes. And he knows a guy who's great at ruining other people's Midsummer nights.
STREET FAIR
THE FAIR FOLK CHRONICLES - BOOK TWO |
The faeries are preparing for a war throughout worlds. But before the fighting comes the talking.
May is approaching, but there's no way Megan O'Reilly can focus on plans for graduation and beyond when the ancient monsters called the Fomoire are about to break out of their frozen lake. As the ice melts in the Spring air, a conference of magical beings from around the world is being called. Apparently there are a lot of risks involved in properly equipping this kind of party. There are so many places--Earth, different mystic realms, the collective unconscious, an outright netherworld--to go, people to see, and things to be done.
Megan is going to help. No matter how dangerous it gets.
A FAIR FIGHT
THE FAIR FOLK CHRONICLES - BOOK THREE |
Late December is a magical time of year. Magical enough for the forces of the Fomoire to truly begin their conquest.
Many people travel and consider new things during a gap year before college. Megan of the Unseelie, all of 18 now, is spending hers hurrying between realms and trying to figure how to stop the Fomoire from running rampant over all worlds when the Winter Solstice arrives.
Now Megan must rally her friends and allies one more time in a last, desperate mission. Especially because some on both sides say all those worlds are doomed.
ALL'S FAIR
THE FAIR FOLK CHRONICLES - BOOK FOUR |
Death was supposed to be an aesthetic, not a plan for the weekend.
Rae Schwarz spends her lunches at the goth table, her evenings with eccentric loved ones, and her daydreams with poetic inspirations. But family secrets have a way of getting out, no matter how long one is sheltered. Some of the things brought to light are a little too bright for Rae's taste, and some have a darkness and a danger she can fall into all too easily.
Book One of the Gothcraft series, this '90s-era Young Adult fantasy is indirectly connected to Cook & Perkins's Fair Folk Chronicles.
YOU'RE NOT A REAL GOTH UNTIL YOU SACK ROME
GOTHCRAFT - BOOK 1 |
Protection.
That's what she wants for everyone.
But sometimes you just get burned.
Rae Schwarz has been a witch all semester, and she still isn't sure what's safe for whom.
Still haunted by the events of the past Halloween, she knows there's more to her magic—and the threats surrounding it—than what's in the movies.
Still, she's only slowly realizing a lot of things about herself and the heritage she has yet to fully face.
Will she and everyone she cares about even survive until summer vacation?
SPF 1066 continues the adventures begun in You're Not a Real Goth Until You Sack Rome.
SPF 1066
GOTHCRAFT - BOOK 2 |
What happens when the Chosen One dies in Chapter 1?
For countless years, the people of the four towers that stand between this world and the Otherrealm have waited for the day. The prophesied moment has come--and it's about to go horribly wrong. When tragedy strikes, four companions must race against time--and victorious evil forces--without a hero to carry their hopes. Even obviously doomed worlds are still worth fighting for.
UNCHOSEN
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Because books won't sell themselves.
In these times when it's easy to self-publish but hard to get
noticed, conventions offer a solid, feasible option for the
independent author to start on a path to financial sustainability.
But becoming a professional denizen of the dealer's room has
its challenges. In Working the Table, two veteran indie authors
spill their secrets to help you not only survive, but thrive in
the book-event environment.
WORK THE TABLE
AN INDIE AUTHOR'S GUIDE TO CONVENTIONS |