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I'm writing a steampunk short story right now. It also happens to be a detective story. While I have dabbled in the steampunk genre -- my first novella was a steampunk story -- I have not written mysteries or detective stories. Steampunk seems like a good setting to dabble in with mysteries, since it sort of harkens back to Sherlock Holmes in the style.


So anyway, I have about a week to finish this short story. I was hoping to make it a short-short, but the set-up is taking a bit longer than I hoped. Maybe I'll cut it later, but probably not.


In other news, I only have seven votes in the Honest Lie Volume Two contest. If you haven't voted please do so here: http://ahlvol2vote.debrincase.com/.


And if you'd like to buy your advanced copy, check out http://debrincase.com/ahlvol2/c-b-calsing/ and click on the heart to earn me 500 votes and order your copy today.


And next month, we should finally see All Along the Pacific, so I hope you've saved some money for that!

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