Senta and the Steel Dragon – Illustration

She could feel the magic nearby even before she saw the figure approaching her from the side.
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Senta and the Steel Dragon – Illustration

All members of the party, excepting only Senta, wore khaki shirt and khaki trousers tucked into high boots.
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Senta and the Steel Dragon – Illustration

“Don’t be like that. It’s Colonel Mormont’s journal.”
“Who is Colonel Mormont?” asked Senta.
“He explored all across Mallon more than ten years ago. He wrote all about velociraptors and iguanadons and loads of other animals. He wrote about the lizzies too.”
“The only soldier I care about is Major Frisbee,” said Senta. “He makes damn fine chutney.”
“We don’t use that word in this house,” said Honor.
“Chutney?”
“The d-word.”
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Senta and the Steel Dragon – Illustration

She didn’t see a policeman around, but they were always around somewhere, in their stiff blue uniforms, with their tall blue helmets, carrying their stout black cop clubs—just waiting to use them to thump someone littering or spitting on the street or (at other times of the year) someone picking the fruit from the trees which grew behind their own little wrought iron fences.
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Senta and the Steel Dragon Illustrations

“I never expected you to be so week,” said Iolanthe.
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Senta and the Steel Dragon Illustration

Native Lizzie Art.
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Senta and the Steel Dragon – Illustration

One day, when the first fall breeze blew across the bay to the shores of the colony, he told her his name—“Bessemer”.
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Senta and the Steel Dragon – Illustrations

Granny.
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Senta and the Steel Dragon – Illustration

It was a lovely dress made of a heavy material of the deepest red.

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Senta and the Steel Dragon – Publishing Update


My Email to Baen Books:

Dear Editors,

I submitted my novel THE STEEL DRAGON for your consideration through your online submission program on September 6, 2008. It is manuscript number 3962. While cognizant both of the large number of manuscripts that you are faced with and your admonition that it takes 9-12 months to review submissions, I never-the-less thought that 10 months might be an appropriate point at which to check in and ask for a status report.

Thank you for your time and effort both in reading my submission and this email.

Sincerely,
Wesley Allison

The Reply

We’re running behind. It’ll be another couple of months before we get to it.