Airship Award Nomination for Best Fiction!

We are absolutely delighted that Steampunk Holmes: Legacy of the Nautilus was nominated for the Airship Award for Best Fiction.
P.C. Martin deserves all the praise she can get for her astute take on Watson's voice, creating a mystery worthy of Sherlock, and creating a new steampunk London world.
Thanks so much to Diana Vick at Steamcon for this great honor.
Check out all the other fantastic steampunk nominations here....

Demo of Interactive App

Another demo of Steampunk Holmes: Legacy of the Nautilus.

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...