Steampunk Cosplay at Planet Comicon

This weekend Steampunk Holmes went to Planet Comicon!

There were many great cosplayers there. Here are some of the fantastic steampunk cosplay outfits I saw:

Amy Coleman as a tinker's daughter.

Airship Noir

Eric Hunter and Johnny Ireland. Love the mask. The gun has excellent details as well.

The lovely ladies at House of Genevieve. 

Fantastic leatherwork by House of Genevieve.

Beautiful.

Everything Airship Vindus did at the con was excellent. I highly recommend you follow them! They have great pictures up on their Facebook page.

Details from Charlotte's costume.

Johnny Ireland as Steampunk Dread Pirate Roberts

Grant Forbes as Steampunk Ironman

The lovely Tina Reed and Sharon Phelan Weaver.

Fantastic Fan Art

We were thrilled when Karol Wolf sent us this incredible fan art of Steampunk Holmes. She's a great artist!

Check out her DeviantArt page,

And follow her on Twitter ( @coolKarol )

Steampunk Holmes is in The New York Times

(photo via Baker St. Babes)

Steampunk Holmes is included in a fascinating article by The New York Times about who owns the rights to Sherlock Holmes.
Our good friends and supporters, The Baker Street Babes, also play a large role in the article. 
Noble Beast's owner and manager, Richard Monson-Haefel, gets a great introduction and gives a quote:


"Some say that when it comes to promoting nontraditional Sherlockiana, the estate can be quite open-minded. Richard Monson-Haefel of Noble Beast, the multimedia publisher behind “Steampunk Holmes,” an interactive mash-up based on the public-domain story “The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans,” said he paid a fee to the estate after learning it also asserts trademark protection for the character that, unlike copyright, can be renewed in perpetuity.

“The estate has given us a little boost here and there,” said Mr. Monson-Haefel, whose company displays the estate’s official seal of approval on the project’s Web page. “I’m pretty happy with the situation.”

Read the rest of the article...

Demo of Steampunk Holmes App!

Our developers have been hard at work, and the Steampunk Holmes: Legacy of the Nautilus interactive app is really shaping up and looking good. Here's a demo:

As you can see, there's a beautiful, detailed map of London where you can watch their journey.

There's character portraits that you unlock as you read the story.

Excellent quality music (by Abney Park) and narration (by Gerald Price), and you can choose to have both on, one on, or no audio.

Subtle animation in each illustration that enhances the art.

A cog tracks where you are at in the story.

There's a beautiful menu bar you can refer to at the top of the page.

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We're very excited to introduce this to the world! It will go live around the end of the month.

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Wired Reviews Steampunk Holmes

Thank you very much to Wired.com and Geek Dad, and especially to author James Floyd Kelly for the excellent review of Steampunk Holmes: Legacy of the Nautilus.

You can read the review here, and be sure to check out the other fine steampunk books featured...

Steampunk Hits the Mainstream--Mention at Tor.com

Ay-leen at Tor.com write a fantastic article about the press release from IBM’s Social Sentiment Index predicting that steampunk will be a retail trend from 2013 – 2015. 

The article gives a great perspective on the Steampunk culture, and makes many excellent points about what draws such a wide range of people. "One of the main attractions of steampunk as a creative community, however, is the democratization of the artisan lifestyle. You didn’t have be a “professional.”"

It also give five things that steampunk hitting the mainstream can do (and is already doing), besides changing their fashion choices. Ay-leen even gives Steampunk Holmes a generous mention in #4: Steampunk revitalizes old-fashioned storytelling in new ways.

Go check out the rest of the article at Tor.com...

Hello chaps and lassies! Wondering where to find the non-interactive version of Steampunk Holmes?
Steampunk Holmes: Legacy of the Nautilus is available on Amazon:
Kindle or a beautiful paperback and excellent audio.

Or you can find it on Goodreads.

What people are saying about it:


"The story itself is a good mystery – I was somewhere between Holmes and Watson in figuring it out – and of course showcases Holmes’s amazing powers of deduction. It reads much like an original Sherlock story, with more action, and flows quickly, particularly as things heat up in the second half of the book." -Bookshelf Bombshells

"This is to be only the beginning of a series of books in this inventive and tantalizing world." -Amanda from Goodreads

"This story takes all the wonders of a steampunk world, sci-fi, and Sherlock Holmes and mixes them into a immensely enjoyable action-packed story." -Scott Wakefield, author of Steam Patriots

If you've already read Steampunk Holmes: Legacy of the Nautilus, please consider leaving a review.