A Gentleman of Means: A steampunk adventure novel by Shelley Adina Copyright 2015. All rights reserved. Prologue Venice, October 1894 Upon her graduation from St. Cecilia’s Academy for Young Ladies at the age of eighteen, Gloria Meriwether-Astor had returned to the Fifteen Colonies believing herself to be the epitome of feminine charm, wealth, and beauty,…

My newsletter subscribers were the first to get a look at the cover of Magnificent Devices Book Eight. A very good reason to sign up, what? So with a flourish, I whip the concealing sheet away–ta da! Here is our Tigg in his natural habitat, the engine room of an airship!

Creating a book cover is one of the most fun parts about being independently published. Of course, I don’t actually get my spoon in the soup, as Snouts might say, but I do usually have a concept in mind. So, when I was looking for images for the cover of book eight, A Gentleman of Means, I…