Hammer and the Detective

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A. S. Warwick, Alternate Earth, Fantasy, Novelette, Steampunk, Steampunk Fantasy, Writing

The second of my Sir Richard Hammerman series of alternate Earth steampunk fantasy novelettes is now compelte and available at a range of place.

Hammer and the Detective is a 10,000 word story in which Sir Richard’s quiet sojourn in Cape Colony is rudely interupted by assault and abduction.  Along with his brother Captain Archibald Hammerman, and their friends, he is drawn into a world not of hisown, one of agents, secrets and undercover detectives.

Available at Amazon, Smashwords, Barnes & Noble, Apple and Kobo.

Hammer of the Pygmies

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A. S. Warwick, Alternate Earth, Fantasy, Novelette, Steampunk, Steampunk Fantasy, Writing

Going through some old files I found a 10,000 word story I had completed some time back and forgotten about. So I cleaned it up, gave it a cover and have uploaded it on Smashwords where it is now available for free. The story, Hammer of the Pygmies, is an Alternate Earth Steampunk Fantasy adventure, starring Sir Richard Hammerman, gentleman-adventurer, his loyal manservant Obadiah Crabb, and the inventor Doctor Hamilton Gooding.

I had planned for it to be part of a bundle of 3-4 novelettes, but I thought that given the others weren’t started yet I should at least publish this one to see what people thought of it.

NaNoWriMo Commences

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Andrew Warwick, NaNoWriMo, Novelettes, Novellas, Short Stories, Steampunk, Writing

It is November 1st here in Australia and I am about to commence an attempt at NaNoWriMo. For it I have gone with the Steampunk flavoured anthology. I am planning on three stories as of yet unknown length. The first and third ones have been planned out, but the second one is still just a concept – I’ll have to come up with something for it when the time comes. So far titles are just working ones.

The characters of the stories are;

Sir Richard Hammerman; Gentleman-Explorer. A typical reserved, stiff-upper-lip gentleman of Albion, unflappable in the face of danger.

Obadiah Crabb; Sir Richard’s loyal and dependable manservant.

Doctor Hamilton Gooding; Scientist, naturalist, explorer and inventor from Scotti.

Captain Archibald Hammerman; Sir Richard’s genial brother and somewhat the back sheep of the family. They bought him a commition in the army to keep him out of trouble.

Lady Adeline ‘Ada’ Redsmith; A daughter of an old friend of Sir Richard and Captain Archibald’s father. Raised in the colonies and as such is a more adventurous and outgoing woman than the genteel society ladies of Londinium.

Hammer of the Pygmies
Sir Richard and Doctor Gooding set forth from Cape Colony into the wilds of Africus, into pygmy territory, seeking a lost temple. The region is fraught with peril as it is said that the pygmies have discovered a means by which to animate the bodies of their fallen foes to fight for them.

Hammer and the Captain
Doctor Gooding’s research into some recently discovered ancient stone tablets is interrupted by agents of the Frankish Sun King. It is up to Sir Richard and Captain Archibald to recover both the good doctor and the tablets before they can be spirited away back to Eupora.

Hammer of the Skies
Travelling back to Albion via airship and escorting the Lady Adeline Redsmith is no easy task when pterodactyl riding pygmies, djinn dervishes and Transylvanian sky-pirates all seek to thwart the journey of Sir Richard, Captain Archibald and Doctor Gooding.

NaNoWriMo

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Andrew Warwick, Fantasy, Novelettes, Short Stories, Steampunk, Writing

NaNoWriMo is upon us again soon.

The funny thing is, despite having known about it for years, last year was the first time I attempted it – and never completed it. I got some 17,000 words in and decided that I shouldn’t be working on a new project when old ones still remained to be finished. So it got set aside, as often happens. At least this time the projects I returned to did get finished. In part that is why I like short stories – after 10-15,000 words you are generally finished.

This year I am contemplating doing it again – but not with a novel, as is the norm. Instead I am thinking of doing an anthology of short stories. The question is which, as I have a few planned.

The first is one I’ve already written six short stories for and was planned to be one of the next things finished after the re-editing and new covers were done for the previous stories. There are three more stories planned for the anthology, though I am not sure if they can be stretched to 50,000 words between them.

The second only has one story written so far – and another half done. It had been planned as a novella but may end up being a bit longer, given it is already 40,000 words in length. Four novelettes and a novella are planned to finish of that anthology, so it could easily hit the 50,000 word mark.

The third is a anthology of pulp style sword and sorcery fantasy stories – three have been written (but not yet published) with a number more planned. The good thing about them is that they are fairly fun and easy to write and don’t require a huge amount of planning.

The last one is an anthology I’ve been wanting to write for a long time but never gotten around to it – a steampunk series set in a fantastical alternative Earth, following the exploits of a gentleman-adventurer and his companions as they battle pterodactyl-riding pygmies while travelling aboard airships, find lost treasures in hidden temples in the deep jungles, get caught up in the politics of the Immortal Queen Victoria of Albion as she seeks to defend the Empire against her foes in Europa and all the weird science and outlandish steampunk contraptions that go along with it.

I still have a few weeks to go luckily before a choice needs to be made.