A Dreamstress with a Singer

My friend, Blythe (an eerie Cassandra if ever there was one, and a fantastic author, too. Read her stuff!), referred to me as a dreamstress the other day. I love this term because it is an incisive encapsulation of the sort of sewing I do. I don't sew clothing. Nothing you can find in a…

Every Steampunk Writer Needs a Good Coat

Months and months ago, Beth Cato revealed the fantastic cover of her debut novel, The Clockwork Dagger. This is a pretty important moment for a writer. This is the moment where you receive the first and most obvious fruits of putting your baby into someone else's hands and seeing how those people represent it to the world.…