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Tesla’s Stepdaughters: The Details

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Speaking of Tesla’s Stepdaughters, as  I was the other day, got me thinking about the Ladybugs and their world.

One of the things I’ve learned (I hope) is that even though you go to a great deal of trouble to create the details of a fantasy or sci-fi world, you shouldn’t go showing it off unless it benefits the story.  I think this is one of the weaknesses of His Robot Girlfriend that makes me want to rewrite it.

There is a pretty large amount of detail about the Ladybugs and their music in Tesla’s Stepdaughters, but I tried to use only what I needed to be descriptive.  In editing, I cut back on the details of their concert playlists.  However, I created WAY more detail than is shown in the book.  I created every album of the Ladybugs career, every song on every album, who wrote each song, and who played what instruments on those songs.  I posted the details long ago on the blog, and if anyone is interested I’ll post them again.  I even put it out there in ebook format, but I took it down, as I didn’t want people to be disappointed that they weren’t getting a story.

All this is something that I’m being very mindful of as I write His Robot Wife: Patience is a virtue.  I have maps and diagrams and lists, but for the most part they will be for my own reference.  When I’m done with the book, I may post some of them here, but hopefully I’ve learned enough that I’ll just show off the important part (for the story) in the story.

Tesla’s Stepdaughters: New Paperback Edition with a lower price.

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The new updated text of Tesla’s Stepdaughters is now available in a Digest Paperback format and it has a new low price of $5.00.

If you know someone who would like a copy of this sci-fi, rock ‘n roll, steampunk, detective story; or you would like a copy yourself, you can find it at this link.

New Revisions of Tesla’s Stepdaughters

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The latest revision of Tesla’s Stepdaughters is now available for purchase wherever fine ebooks are sold.  If you’ve already purchased and read Tesla’s Stepdaughters, it’s probably not worth your while to download it again (though it should be free to do so) unless you are just anal about having the most correct version of a book in your elibrary.

There were very few changes made– three or four incorrectly placed commas.  The big thing was that I had not italicized the song titles and album titles in the book– and there are a lot of them.  So now they are italicized.

Of course, the book now has the new cover, which I premiered here a few days ago.  I liked the old cover all right, but I think this new one is much more striking.

If you haven’t read Tesla’s Stepdaughters, I invite you to, and let me know what you think.  I’m not humble enough to deny that I enjoyed re-reading it.  I think for 99 cents, its a good little sci-fi, rock ‘n’ roll, detective story.

Cover Reveal: Tesla’s Stepdaughters

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Here is the new cover for Tesla’s Stepdaughters.  It should be gracing the ebooks within a few weeks and the paperbacks shortly thereafter.

I actually purchased the art for this cover some time ago, originally for use on the cover of a sequel.  I have a couple of chapters of it written and may well get back to it in the future, but decided, as part of my generally sprucing up of my books, that I would go ahead and use it.  I can always find new art if and when I get the second book finished.

If you haven’t read Tesla’s Stepdaughers, it is a rock and roll, steampunk, detective story.

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.               

Motivations: Tesla’s Stepdaughters

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The idea for Tesla’s Stepdaughters came while I was playing Rock Band 2.  I was playing it a lot over the summer in 2009.  As part of the game, you create your band, and the band I created became The Ladybugs.  The original band name was actually Tesla’s Stepdaughters, but when I got around to writing the story, it just seemed to make more sense that the band standing in historically for The Beatles would have a similar name.

I am really pleased with Tesla’s Stepdaughters.  I think I was successful in creating a setting for the story, without delving too deeply into it.  I’m really happy with my mystery.  I never really thought I would be able to write a mystery story, and while some might point out that the mystery is the weakest part of the story (and I wouldn’t argue that), for me, I’m pretty pleased.