Watch this space! Videos announcing the contest winners will be posted soon! (Sir Reg was in rare form; we’re trying to edit some of his more, er, exuberant exclamations, so as not to offend delicate viewers…that much.) And it’s not too late to enter the contest for the Vampire Empire books; you have until Friday to get your name in the running.




In other steampunkesque news, another theory about the true identity of Jack the Ripper has tangible backup…in the form of a surgical knife.



How to Be a Retronaut continues to demonstrate how to be awesome – in this post, by examining career prospects for women circa 1902.



It’s wonderful to see how cities customize their steampunk celebrations. For Wichita, it was the “Emerald City Steampunk Expo”!