2018: Steampunk, SpecFic, Music and more!

Happy New Year!

Seldom do I post (for regular updates Twitter is best), yet now I have many excitements to impart. Please make like the tiny turtles in Finding Nemo and scooch together, my kind followers.

2017 ended on a high note with big gig conformations for Erin Bennett: Planet Rock’s Winter’s End Festival, (we play on Sat 24/02) plus Hawkwind’s Hawkeaster Happening, in Morecambe. Krow, too, has an epic gig confirmed – announcement coming soon! New album releases are pending for both. (For those of you who followed this blog fairly recently; I sing backing vox in both bands, which is how I make a living. I write in the gaps.) The Cherry on the Christmas Cake: invites for contributions to two new anthologies & a speculative poem for a third.

2018 started with a bang because oh, my goodnes; My short story ‘Unmade‘ (featured in Steampunk Writers Around the World) has been nominated for a BSFA by the British Science Fiction Association! Many congratulations to all fellow nominees & my open minded publishers at Luna Press Edinburgh.

For the full list of nominees in all categories, see the BSFA website.

 

 

Steampunk India wins Steampunk Chronicle Award for Best MultiCultural Steampunk

Steampunk India is the winner in this years’ Steampunk Chronicle Reader’s Choice Award in the category Best Multi-Cultural Steampunk!

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who has supported, nominated and voted Steampunk India, it is deeply gratifying. Especially to be chosen from such excellent fellow nominees as Balogun Ojetade and Diana Pho, who have done such brilliant work.

Please, stay tuned as more of my fiction will be released very soon!

And now a round of warm congratulations to a choice selection of fellow winners, who have worked extremely hard to stand out in their respective categories and are the much deserved winners:

Best Music Video “Steampunk Style” by Brute Force Studios
Best Performance Artist Sarah Hunter

Best Personality (real person) Professor Elemental
Best Podcast Sounds of Steam
Best Solo Musician Professor Elemental
Best TV Series Ripper Street

Best Web Series The The League of S.T.E.A.M.
Best Website Airship Ambassador

Best Children’s Steamunk Fiction Walking Your Octopus/Otto & Victoria – Brian Kesinger’s Tea Girls
Best Fiction Ministry Protocol: Thrilling Tales from The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences
Best Maker Book “The Steampunk Adventurer’s Guide” by Thomas Willeford
Best Artist/Illustrator Brian Kesingers Tea Girls
Best Goggles Airship Isabella
Best Maker-Group League of S.T.E.A.M.
Best Maker-Individual Richard “Doc” Nagy aka Datamancer Labs
Best Costume – Individual Recreation Steampunk Rowena Ravenclaw- Aleta Pardalis

Best Dressed -Female Sarah Hunter
Best Jewelry Designer Dr Brassy Steampunk
Best Place to Shop Online Thomas Willeford: Brute Force Studios
Steampunk Fashion Icon Sarah Hunter
Best Overall Convention TeslaCon
Best Convention Party Host Calamity Labs
Best Convention show or event MC Lord Bobbins
Convention Director of the Year Eric Larson (Lord Bobbins)-Teslacon
Best Non-US Based Convention The Asylum – UK

Best regional convention -Southeast AnachroCon
Best regional convention -Northwest SteamCon
Best regional convention -Southwest Wild Wild West Steampunk Convention

Best regional convention -Midwest Steampunk Empire Symposium
Best regional convention -South Central Aetherfest
Steamlife
Best Character/Persona Steampunk Boba Fett
Best City for Steampunk Atlanta, GA
Most Steampunk Location Lincoln, UK
Best Politically minded Steampunk Diana M Pho Beyond Victoriana – Multicultural Steampunk

Best Crowdfunded Project The League of STEAM Season Three
Steam-Hunk Tony Ballard Smoot (aka Anthony la Grange)
Steampunk Pinup Girl Sarah Hunter
Steampunk Person to Watch in 2014 David Lee
Steampunk Group/Couple to Watch in 2014 League of STEAM and Thomas Willeford &Sarah Hunter