Ruth is one of the four musician characters in Tesla’s Stepdaughters. What was her inspiration?
In as far as the Ladybugs is an alternate world analogy of the Beatles…
Ruth is Ringo. She’s the drummer. She’s written one really famous song, although she sings some written by her bandmates. Everyone thinks she’s nice.
Ruth is a native of the Virgin Islands.
Read about her and the other Ladybugs in Tesla’s Stepdaughters.
Steffie Sin is one of the four musician characters in Tesla’s Stepdaughters. What was her inspiration?In as far as the Ladybugs is an alternate world analogy of the Beatles…
Steffie is a mixture of Harrison and McCartney. Like Harrison, she has her songs pushed aside on albums because of the prolific songwriting of Piffy and Penny. Like McCartney, she can play just about any instrument. She spends her off time in seclusion.
She has a little boy.
Read about her and the other Ladybugs in Tesla’s Stepdaughters.
Penny Dreadful is one of the four musician characters in Tesla’s Stepdaughters. What was her inspiration?
In as far as the Ladybugs is an alternate world analogy of the Beatles…
Penny is a mixture of Lennon and McCartney, with a bit of Harrison. She’s a hard rocker and a large woman, a bit like Ann Wilson of Heart.
She’s the greatest guitar player of all time, and oh yeah, she’s a clone.
Read about her and the other Ladybugs in Tesla’s Stepdaughters.
Ep!phanee (pronounced Epiphany) or Piffy is one of the four musician characters in Tesla’s Stepdaughters. What was her inspiration?
In as far as the Ladybugs is an alternate world analogy of the Beatles…
Piffy is a mixture of Lennon and McCartney. Song writing style, she’s more Lennon. Management put her at odds with the other three band members: ala McCartney. And like McCartney, she’s always looking to “do it in the road.”
She’s a wild chick with a bit of Joan Jett in her and stylewise she’s a bit Lady Gaga too.
Read about her and the other Ladybugs in Tesla’s Stepdaughters.
The series of books Senta and the Steel Dragon has a great many characters (something over 250), but it’s no surprise that the most important is character is Senta Bly. The series is really the story of her life, growing from a small child to become a powerful sorceress.
The Voyage of the Minotaur (Book 1) Senta begins the story as an eight year old orphan living in the great city of Brech. She is adopted by the mysterious sorceress Zurfina the Magnificent and is taken with her on a voyage to the distant land of Birmisia.
The Dark and Forbidding Land (Book 2) Senta and Zurfina have been living in Birmisia for almost two years as this book starts. She struggles to understand the magic that Zurfina tries to teach her, as she must face the terrors of their forest home.
The Sorceress’s Apprentice (Book 3) As a twelve year old apprentice sorceress, Senta has become well-known and, by some, feared. She struggles with the problems of adolescence along with her friends Hero and Hertzel and her boyfriend Graham.
The Young Sorceress (Book 4) On the eve of her fifteenth birthday, Senta finds herself being pulled in four different directions. Will she really have to split herself into four to deal with all her problems? And she may have a rival for Graham’s affections.
The Two Dragons (Book 5) War comes to Birmisia and Senta is right in the middle of it. As Freedonian forces and murderous lizzies threaten the city of Port Dechantagne, Senta must make a journey into the heart of unexplored territory to the lizzie city-state of Tsahloose.
The Sorceress and her Lovers (Book 6) Twenty-two year old sorceress Senta finishes her tour of Sumir and prepares to return to Birmisia with a new love interest and a new baby. Meanwhile an old acquaintance plans to use the sorceress’s magic for her own selfish purposes.
Tall and thin, with blond hair and blue eyes, Senta is intelligent and witty. As a child she is precocious. As an adult, she is clever and sharp tongued.
Norar Remontar is the second person that Alexander Ashton meets in the world of Ecos, and the first Amatharian. Norar Remontar is the son of an overlord and is a knight. He carries an Amatharian sword, inhabited by one of the strange energy beings known as souls. This life-form empoweres the ordinary metal of the sword with fantastic power.
The Amatharian knight is typical of his people– tall and handsome with deep blue skin. He is brave and at least in the beginning, suspicious of Alexander.
One of the major characters in Senta and the Steel Dragon (Book 1: The Voyage of the Minotaur) & (Book 5: The Two Dragons) is Zeah Korlann. Zeah is the head butler of the Dechantagne family. As a member of the minority Zaeri, he has had to deal with prejudice his whole life. As Zeah leaves with the rest of the party for the strange and distant land of Birmisia, his life begins to change. As the colonists rely on his organizing skills, he becomes more and more important, and his status increases. At the same time, he becomes the object of interest for a fascinating young woman.
The United Kingdom of Greater Brechalon is the country from which most of the characters in Senta and the Steel Dragon come. It is a fantasy analog of Edwardian Great Britain, with a few steam punk elements thrown in. Magic exists and wizards are relatively common, though they are usually employed by the military or the police. Sorcerors are more scarce. Steam travel is common as are telegraphs and gas lighting.
The UK is made up of three large islands and several small ones and possesses the world’s most powerful navy. Its traditional enemies are the Kingdom of Freedonia and the Kingdom of Mirsanna.
The only two characters of any consequence besides Mike and Patience, to appear in “His Robot Girlfriend” are Mike’s two children– Harriet and Lucas. I initially patterned them after my own two kids, just as I had patterned Mike after myself. My son is in the Jr. ROTC, so I made Lucas a soldier. My daughter likes animals and Harriet has many animals. My daughter is older than my son, and Harriet is older than Mike. From this brief basis, I expanded the characters as I wrote, so in the end, they didn’t bear much similarity to the real people.
“I am Daffodil serial number 55277-PFN-001-XGN-F0103. My software is up to date.”
Patience is the Robot in “His Robot Girlfriend”. Just as you might expect, she’s perfect.
Though her hair was covered with a clear plastic cap, he could see it was jet black. It matched two dark, carefully arched eyebrows and a set of long eyelashes. She had no other body hair. Her face could best be described as cute, with large blue eyes, a button nose, and thick voluptuous lips. She had the kind of slender and yet curvy body that was just not possible on a real woman. Breasts the size of apples just kind of floated there above a perfectly flat stomach. Mike tilted his head down. She looked anatomically complete.
Patience went through several different versions. Originally, she was very tall and buxom and had platinum hair. Then in revision, I made her more svelt and small, with dark hair. When I imagined her moving, I pictured some of the actresses that fit that body type: Christina Ricci, Natalie Portman, Alyson Hannigan. Her personality was easy to write. She’s a robot.
“I suppose you don’t need any sun block?” he asked.
“I’m shielded against much greater radiation that I am likely to be exposed to here, Mike.” Patience replied.
“So you don’t tan?”
“No. I will remain always the shade that you chose when you ordered me.”
City of Amathar 