Lita Burke

Writer Tips for Tweeps: Check Out #LitaLikes

For all the Gentle Readers who are on Twitter, Lita Burke has started a hash tag with indie writer wisdom just for you. But do read on, even if you’re not on Twitter–I’m talking about writing tips today. About #LitaLikes Here in December, Lita started a series of every-other-day tweets using the hash tag #LitaLikes. These are…

Harpies Are Misunderstood

Madam Harpy, our Winged Sister of the Sky. Who did a disservice to this magical creature, turning her from a beautiful woman with feathery wings, into a fearsome hag? Hesiod, a Greek oral poet from the same time period as Homer, described harpies as women with fetching hair. Pottery showed them as lovely damsels with wings. Just what…

Sneak Peek: Ephraim’s Curious Device Cover

Sure, call me impatient. Raring to go. Even label me hasty, when I am properly motivated like now. But you benefit, Gentle Reader. Look here. I must show you my pretty. I couldn’t wait to share the eBook cover for my next Clockpunk Wizard story. Here is the just-completed face for Ephraim’s Curious Device. Why a Forest? Please…

Forever Boy Book Launch Party Ends

Where does the time go? We should not say goodbye, but instead say sweet travels to you until we meet again. Watch your step when you disembark. Kadmeion gives you some magic sparkles to light your way. Thank you, Gentle Reader, for joining me on Wizard Kadmeion’s airship for the book launch party for Lita’s…

Let Us Eat Cake

Here is the galley and adjoining dining room. Apologies to rush you through. The wizard requests the pleasure of our company in the front sitting room. The Chesterfield settee is especially comfortable. Here is the celebration cake for the release of the Lita Burke novelette, Forever Boy. The candles were Kadmeion’s idea. Bright spoke the spell to…

Go Fer and Furgo

Kadmeion’s familiar lives in this room. It’s difficult to tell who lives here, isn’t it? A boy and his dog? Well, the boy is a weredog. A cyanthrope is the magical name. Sometimes Kadmeion’s familiar is a dog. Other times he is a boy. He can even take on an in-between stage of a very hairy…

Floating Rocks

We are in one of the Gear Rooms for Kadmeion’s airship. Step over here. I want to show you something. Some of the automata have removed the hull’s inner wall boards so you can see the floating rocks that miners have cut into bricks. The mortar holds the bricks in place. The wall boards keep the…

Kadmeion’s Magic

Here is one of Kadmeion’s workrooms. Bright’s clockworks lab is next door. Wizard Kadmeion is university trained and practices high magic. He graduated four months ago from Agatha University, with high honors. His assistant is Sir Bright, also a recent university graduate, who is a talented clockworks designer. Inverse Magic Most of the university-trained wizards’…

Copernicus, One of the Minor Demons

Step inside the Pilot House. Meet Copernicus. He flies Wizard Kadmeion’s airship. Copernicus is the most advanced metal homunculi (also called automata) on Kadmeion’s airship. Copernicus is a magical sentient creature with a metal body created by Bright, and animated by a minor demon summoned by Kadmeion. Demons live on the nether plains until called by a magician…

How the Airship Works

Welcome to the topside Map Room in Wizard Kadmeion’s airship. It adjoins the Pilot House. Plate Geography The magical world of Clockpunk Wizard in Forever Boy is a spinning plate with a large mountainous land mass at the spindle called the South Pole. The rest of the platter is a vast ocean dotted with small…