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[Image: Intricate greyscale art of two richly dressed women, steampunk and/or Victorian, together in front of a set of vanity mirrors. One, dark-skinned and her hair done up, is standing and rests a hand on the arm of the other, with light skin and long, curly tresses, who is sitting on a stool.]

(via Die Nacht der Schwaene by *luca-seraphin on deviantART)

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Winterwalk by ~luca-seraphin

friendofdorothywilde:

So this has been talked about a lot, but I haven’t said much here for various reasons (most of them pertaining to a lack of time for blogging since March or so). Anyway, the contracts are in, the manuscript delivered, and all systems are full steam ahead. And so, without further ado:

Steam-Powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories will be published by Torquere Press in December 2010 ETA January 2011 with stories by:

N.K. Jemisin: “The Effluent Engine”
Georgina Bruce: “Brilliant”
DL MacInnes: “Owl Song”
Sara M. Harvey: “Where the Ocean Meets the Sky”
Beth Wodzinski: “Suffer Water”
Rachel Manija Brown: “Steel Rider”
Shira Lipkin: “Truth and Life”
Matt Kressel: “The Hand that Feeds”
Meredith Holmes: “Love in the Time of Airships”
Teresa Wymore: “Under the Dome”
Tara Sommers: “Clockwork and Music”
Mikki Kendall: “Copper for a Trickster”
Mike Allen: “Sleepless, Burning Life”
Shweta Narayan: “The Padishah Begum’s Reflections”
Amal El-Mohtar: “To Follow the Waves”

The Memory Palace - Steam-Powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories TOC

My friend Sara is in this!

I want this.