Hey folks, the Clockwork Alchemy steampunk convention is back, and in a new location, the San Mateo Marriott San Francisco Airport! I’ll have an author table there with all my Jeremiah Willstone books – the CLOCKWORK TIME MACHINE and the Thinking Ink Press anthologies TWELVE HOURS LATER, THIRTY DAYS LATER and SOME TIME LATER, and much more, including the Dakota Frost urban fantasy series and my science fiction writing!
I will be at two author signings and four – count them, FOUR panels, including World Building, Who’s the Villain, Science of Airships, Secret Hideout or Secret Lair, and Getting Past Page One – hey, wait a minute, that is five, I counted them, FIVE panels! I may need a nap after all that. But not before I’ve signed a book or given a talk for you!
Time and Location:
Clockwork Alchemy 2023
Friday April 7 – Sunday April 9
San Mateo Marriott San Francisco Airport
1770 South Amphlett Blvd San Mateo, California 94402
And here’s where you can find me:
- World Building
Friday 1pm – Synergy 5 (2nd floor)
Anthony Francis, Madeleine Holly-Rosing
Come and find out what’s necessary to create a living, breathing world for your characters, whether you’re writing a book or running an RPG.
- From the Darkly Ironic to the Moody Byronic: Who’s the Villain Here?
Friday 4pm – Synergy 5(2nd floor)
Sumiko Saulson, Anthony Francis
From the ghosts haunting Ebenezer Scrooge to Dr. Frankenstein’s childlike creature, Victorian horror embraced a new class of complicated, morally ambivalent heroes and villains such as Prince Prospero, Carmilla, and Dorian Gray. If Mr. Hyde is a part of Dr. Jekyll, who is really the villain here?
- Science of Airships
Saturday 11am – Synergy 5(2nd floor)
Anthony Francis
Steampunk is more than brown, boots, and buttons: our adventurers must travel the world in style! Learn about the science behind the leviathans of the skies. From how they stay up to how they crash down, explore how the physics of flight gives distinctive shapes to airships past, present and future!
- Author Signings: Anthony Francis
Saturday 4pm – Convene Lobby(2nd floor)
Get your books signed by Anthony Francis.
- Secret Hideout or Secret Lair? It’s All What You Do With It.
Saturday 5pm – Synergy 5(2nd floor)
Stephanie Clemens, Anthony Francis, Michael Tierney
Sometimes it’s not obvious who is the hero and who is the villain. We have the traditional heroes, anti-heroes, villains we love to root for, and villains we love to hate. Then there are the redeemed villains and fallen heroes! It’s a slippery slope and a lot of fun to play with as an author and a reader.
- Getting Past Chapter One
Sunday 2pm – Synergy 5(2nd floor)
Stephanie Clemens, Anthony Francis, Michael Tierney
Why being perfect keeps you away from finishing your book.
- Author Signings
Sunday 3pm – Convene Lobby(2nd floor)
Shelley Adina, Madeleine Holly-Rosing, David L. Drake, Katherine L. Morse, Michael Tierney, Belinda Sikes, Dover Whitecliff, Stephanie Clemens, Anthony Francis, Thena MacArthur, Sumiko Saulson
Last call! Get your books signed by any of our authors at Clockwork Alchemy 2023.
Looking forward to seeing you all!
-the Centaur
Pictured: A sampler from Clockwork Alchemy 2022.
