This coming week, Phoenix will be crawling with geeks of every type imaginable as their annual Comicon takes place. I received the chance to interview Gigi Edgley, acclaimed sci-fi actress and generally awesome person, who will be featuring her latest projects at said convention. Though her schedule was full, she had enough time to sneak through question and…
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Bruce Boxleitner’s Lantern City is an epic and complex story of people, rigid social classes and crossing worlds. But at its heart is a single poignant question. How far would you go for the one you love? Max, a man based in finance and business, finds his world turned upside down when the woman…
Are you Geek Chic? You would have been if you had visited Clockwork Couture’s Geek Chic event. The wonderful local artists in the courtyard of the shop (complete with Tardis!) could have dressed you from head to toe in custom and hand made art and design of every color and style. Then you…
My final day at the Wild Wild West Steampunk Convention started when I was steered into Rosa’s Cantina for a round of tea duelling hosted by the Tucson Steampunk Society. Tea duelling is a very silly sport where a biscuit is dunked no less than halfway into a cup of tea, submerged for five…
The second Wild Wild West Steampunk Convention is definitely a bigger affair than it was two years ago! The crowds were bigger, the panels more ambitious. In any event of this size there’s bound to be some drama, from finicky customer complaints to diva behavior from certain performers and vendors. “I could never…
A temperamental grey sky ushered in the first day of the second Wild Wild West Steampunk Convention, and like many others, my arrival was delayed due to the stormy conditions. As fat drops of rain pounded against the car’s windshield, I wondered how the event organizers planned to combat the inclement weather in Old Tucson’s largely…
Matt Yang King (Numb3rs, 24, David E. Kelley’s Monday Mornings, and winner of theCAPE/Hollywood Foreign Press Young Screenwriters Award), is the producer, writer and director of the new steampunk web series The World of Steam. It recently broke records as the highest funded pilot for a web series during its Kickstarter campaign. I had…
I only recently started attending comic conventions, of course with the help of my wonderful editor/publisher Hong Le and GNN! The first one I went to was last May, the Phoenix Comicon, and I went without dressing up. Before I even entered the Phoenix Convention Center, while I was simply trying to get into the…
A Note from the Author: The following is a random collection of working notes taken from scores of pages of such notes that I wrote out when I was thinking through The Aylesford Skull. Please be aware that they contain potential spoilers as well as a number of ideas, characters, and potential scenes that didn’t…
