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Tesla’s Stepdaughters – $5.59 in Paperback

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Tesla's StepdaughtersIn an alternate 1975, where men are almost extinct due to germ warfare, someone is trying to kill history’s greatest rock & roll band.  It falls to Science Police Agent John Andrews, only recently arrived from the distant male enclaves, to protect them.   As the band continues their come-back tour across North America, Andrews must negotiate a complicated relationship with Ep!phanee, the band’s lead singer; drummer Ruth De Molay, bassist Steffie Sin, and the redheaded clone lead guitarist Penny Dreadful, as he protects them and tries to discover who wants to kill the Ladybugs.

Tesla’s Stepdaughters is a crazy, bitchin’, rock n roll punk, sic-fi, detective adventure and is available in ebook for 99 cents wherever fine ebooks are sold.  You can purchase a paperback edition for only $5.59 by following this link.

Tesla’s Stepdaughters – 99 cents on Kindle

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Tesla's StepdaughtersTesla’s Stepdaughters is available wherever fine ebooks are sold.  Get it for your Amazon Kindle for just 99 cents.  Follow this link.

In an alternate 1975, where men are almost extinct due to germ warfare, someone is trying to kill history’s greatest rock & roll band. It falls to Science Police Agent John Andrews, only recently arrived from the distant male enclaves, to protect them. As the band continues their come-back tour across North America, Andrews must negotiate a complicated relationship with Ep!phanee, the band’s lead singer; drummer Ruth De Molay, bassist Steffie Sin, and the redheaded clone lead guitarist Penny Dreadful, as he protects them and tries to discover who wants to kill the Ladybugs.

Tesla’s Stepdaughters – 99 cents on Kindle

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Tesla's StepdaughtersIn an alternate 1975, where men are almost extinct due to germ warfare, someone is trying to kill history’s greatest rock & roll band. It falls to Science Police Agent John Andrews, only recently arrived from the distant male enclaves, to protect them. As the band continues their come-back tour across North America, Andrews must negotiate a complicated relationship with Ep!phanee, the band’s lead singer; drummer Ruth De Molay, bassist Steffie Sin, and the redheaded clone lead guitarist Penny Dreadful, as he protects them and tries to discover who wants to kill the Ladybugs.

Tesla’s Stepdaughters is a bitchin’ sci-fi, steampunk, rock’n’roll, detective novel and is available on your Kindle for just 99 cents.  Follow this link to Amazon.

Tesla’s Stepdaughters for Kindle

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Tesla's StepdaughtersIn a world where men are almost extinct, someone is trying to kill history’s greatest rock & roll band. Science Police Agent John Andrews must negotiate a complicated relationship with Ep!phanee, the band’s lead singer; drummer Ruth De Molay, bassist Steffie Sin, and the redheaded clone lead guitarist Penny Dreadful, as he protects them and tries to discover who wants to kill the Ladybugs.

Tesla’s Stepdaughters is available at Amazon for the Kindle and all Kindle apps for just 99 cents.  Follow the link to Amazon.

Which of your children do you love the most?

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I’m getting ready to count up book sales for the month so far.  Some books will have high sales numbers and some low numbers, but I don’t necessarily love my best-seller(s) the most.  I have strong feelings for all of my books.  After all, I wrote them because I wanted to write books that I would like to read.  When some books that usually sell very few copies suddenly do well, even if it’s only a little bit, I feel a bit of pride.

Tesla’s Stepdaughters is one of those books.  It’s really different from any other books I’ve written.  Science fiction and fantasy are easy for me, but a mystery (such as it is) seems much harder, and I’m just proud to have come up with it.

When Eaglethorpe Buxton sells well, I’m similarly pleased.  I suppose its a validation of myself as a humorist.  I probably had more sheer fun writing EB than any other book.

I feel good when somebody buys (and reads) Princess of Amathar.  It was my first book and took the longest to write (years and years).

Picking my favorite book or my favorite character really would be like picking my favorite child.  I love them all.  And just like my children, there is a little bit of me in each of them.  Even the evil ones.

Tesla’s Stepdaughters at Kobo eBooks

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Tesla's Stepdaughters - New Cover & New Price

Tesla’s Stepdaughters is available at Kobo eBooks.

In an alternate 1975, where men are almost extinct due to germ warfare, someone is trying to kill history’s greatest rock & roll band. It falls to Science Police Agent John Andrews, only recently arrived from the distant male enclaves, to protect them. As the band continues their come-back tour across North America, Andrews must negotiate a complicated relationship with Ep!phanee, the band’s lead singer; drummer Ruth De Molay, bassist Steffie Sin, and the redheaded clone lead guitarist Penny Dreadful, as he protects them and tries to discover who wants to kill the Ladybugs.

Tesla’s Stepdaughters Casting Call

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Speaking of casting movies from my books, I’ve always thought that if they made a Tesla’s Stepdaughters movie, they should cast some real rock stars as The Ladybugs.

I think that Lykke Li would probably make a good Ep!phanee.  First, she has a slightly pixy-ish quality that works with that character.  Second, she is Swedish, and Ep!phanee is a Swedish-American and retains a not-quite-American accent.  Finally, Ep!phanee is described as having an unusual slightly annoying speaking voice (although she has a huge vocal range when singing).  I always thought of Bjork’s voice when I was writing Ep!phanee.  If you listen to Lykke Li’s song “Let if Fall” (which I really like) you can get a sense of an unusual voice.  Also that song is a little unusual– not quite mainstream– which is just the kind of thing that Ep!phanee did in her solo albums.

Working on the new computer.

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I’m sitting here trying to get my new computer set up.  This is the first thing I’ve typed on it.  Feels pretty good so far.  Looks awesome… so sexy.  Pics in the next few days.  On the other hand, I’ve been sick for 21 days now and I’m about sick of being sick.

Cleaning Out the Old Compter

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Ladybugs StickerA ladybugs album mock-up from Tesla’s Stepdaughters.

My Favorite Bits: Tacos and Hot Dogs

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One of the little details in Tesla’s Stepdaughters is a little Freudian reference that I just couldn’t help myself from throwing in.

Tesla’s Stepdaughters is a sci-fi story set in an alternate world where men and women have been segregated from one another for more than forty years.  Women live much as they do today, while men are collected in enclaves in the far southern tips of Africa, South America, and Australia.  This is a result of germ warfare (in their WWI) that eradicated the majority of men in the world.

Part of the story involved the characters buying street food.  The men, living in South America and not liking anything German (because German scientist caused the germ warfare) would never have adopted hot dogs, like they did in the US.  So I had them eating tacos.  I was going to have the women, living in what is essentially our world, eating hamburgers, but then I realized the Freudianism of it all.  With hot dogs and tacos frequently used as euphamisms form male and female genetalia, I just couldn’t resist making those the dominant fast food varieties.