New Releases 9/15/15

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Clockwork Lives by Neil Peart and Kevin J. Anderson

Some lives can be summed up in a sentence or two. Other lives are epics.

In Clockwork Angels, #1 bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson and legendary Rush drummer and lyricist Neil Peart created a fabulous, adventurous steampunk world in a novel to accompany the smash Rush concept album of the same name. It was a world of airships and alchemy, clockwork carnivals, pirates, lost cities, a rigid Watchmaker who controlled every aspect of life, and his nemesis, the ruthless and violent Anarchist who wanted to destroy it all.

Anderson and Peart have returned to their colourful creation to explore the places and the characters that still have a hold on their imagination. Marinda Peake is a woman with a quiet, perfect life in a small village; she long ago gave up on her dreams and ambitions to take care of her ailing father, an alchemist and an inventor. When he dies, he gives Marinda a mysterious inheritance: a blank book that she must fill with other people’s stories — and ultimately her own.

Clockwork Lives is a steampunk Canterbury Tales, and much more, as Marinda strives to change her life from a mere “sentence or two” to a true epic.

Dragon Coast by Greg van Eekhout

Dragon Coast: the sequel to Greg Van Eekhout's California Bones and Pacific Fire, in which Daniel Blackland must pull off the most improbable theft of all.

Daniel's adopted son Sam, made from the magical essence of the tyrannical Hierarch of Southern California whom Daniel overthrew and killed, is lost-consumed by the great Pacific firedrake secretly assembled by Daniel's half-brother, Paul.

But Sam is still alive and aware, in magical form, trapped inside the dragon as it rampages around Los Angeles, periodically torching a neighborhood or two.

Daniel has a plan to rescue Sam. It will involve the rarest of substances, axis mundi, pieces of the bones of the great dragon at the center of the Earth. Daniel will have to go to the kingdom of Northern California, boldly posing as his half-brother, come to claim his place in the competition to be appointed Lord High Osteomancer of the Northern Kingdom. Only when the Northern Hierarch, in her throne room at Golden Gate Park, raises her scepter to confirm Daniel in his position will he have an opportunity to steal the axis mundi-under the gaze of the Hierarch herself.

And that's just the first obstacle.

WARP Book 3 The Forever Man by Eoin Colfer

Riley, an orphan boy living in Victorian London, has achieved his dream of becoming a renowned magician, the Great Savano. He owes much of his success to Chevie, a seventeen-year-old FBI agent who traveled from the future in a time pod and helped him defeat his murderous master, Albert Garrick. But it is difficult for Riley to enjoy his new life, for he has always believed that Garrick will someday, somehow, return to seek vengeance.

Chevie has assured Riley that Garrick was sucked into a temporal wormhole, never to emerge. The full nature of the wormhole has never been understood, however, and just as a human body will reject an unsuitable transplant, the wormhole eventually spat him out. By the time Garrick makes it back to Victorian London, he has been planning his revenge on Riley for centuries. But even the best-laid plans can go awry, and when the three are tossed once more into the wormhole, they end up in a highly paranoid Puritan village where everything is turned upside down. Chevie is accused of being a witch, Garrick is lauded as the town's protector, and . . . is that a talking dog? Riley will need to rely on his reserve of magic tricks to save Chevie and destroy his former master once and for all.

Paperbacks

RUSH's Clockwork Angels: The Graphic Novel by Neil Peart and Kevin J. Anderson

The graphic novel adaptation of the unprecedented concept album and novel from the multi-platinum, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame music legends RUSH and NY Times Bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson!

Owen Hardy, like all the people of Albion, has lived his whole life under the rule of The Watchmaker. His entire life has been planned down to the exact second. But what happens when a young boy decides that things should not always goes as planned? Rush’s CLOCKWORK ANGELS is a testament to the band’s creative versatility—it has been successful as a concept album, novel, and international tour. Now, Rush drummer and lyricist Neil Peart and New York Times bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson are bringing the story of CLOCKWORK ANGELS to comics, where newcomer artist Nick Robles will bring the journey of Owen Hardy to visual life! Die-hard Rush fans have longed for Peart’s narrative songwriting to be adapted into comic book form for decades, but fans of steampunk fantasy will enjoy journeying into the world of Albion thanks to Anderson’s skilled storytelling. Collects the complete story originally published in CLOCKWORK ANGELS #1-#6.

WARP Book 2 The Hangman's Revolution by Eoin Colfer

Young FBI agent Chevie Savano arrives back in modern-day London after a time-trip to the Victorian age, to find the present very different from the one she left. Europe is being run by a Facsist movement known as the Boxites, who control their territory through intimidation and terror. Chevie's memories come back to her in fragments, and just as she is learning about the WARP program from Professor Charles Smart, inventor of the time machine, he is killed by secret service police. Now they are after Chevie, too, but she escapes--into the past. She finds Riley, who is being pursued by futuristic soldiers, and saves him. Working together again, it is up to Chevie and Riley to find the enigmatic Colonel Clayton Box, who is intent on escalating his power, and stop him before he can launch missiles at the capitals of Europe.

To readers, authors and publishers...

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Weekly Update #179

Editor's Note

Just a reminder that this weekend I will be at Capricon so please come check out my panels if you happen to be in town. Because of the convention and Valentine's Day, I probably won't have my usual Weekly Update ready for next Monday, but I will still be posting throughout the week.

And now the news...

Check Out Elizabeth Bear's Karen Memory

The Internet blew up last week about Elizabeth Bear's new steampunk novel, Karen Memory. Here is the description from Amazon:

“You ain’t gonna like what I have to tell you, but I'm gonna tell you anyway. See, my name is Karen Memery, like memory only spelt with an e, and I'm one of the girls what works in the Hôtel Mon Cherie on Amity Street. Hôtel has a little hat over the o like that. It's French, so Beatrice tells me.”

Set in the late 19th century—when the city we now call Seattle Underground was the whole town (and still on the surface), when airships plied the trade routes, would-be gold miners were heading to the gold fields of Alaska, and steam-powered mechanicals stalked the waterfront, Karen is a young woman on her own, is making the best of her orphaned state by working in Madame Damnable’s high-quality bordello. Through Karen’s eyes we get to know the other girls in the house—a resourceful group—and the poor and the powerful of the town. Trouble erupts one night when a badly injured girl arrives at their door, beggin sanctuary, followed by the man who holds her indenture, and who has a machine that can take over anyone’s mind and control their actions.  And as if that wasn’t bad enough, the next night brings a body dumped in their rubbish heap—a streetwalker who has been brutally murdered.

Bear brings alive this Jack-the-Ripper yarn of the old west with a light touch in Karen’s own memorable voice, and a mesmerizing evocation of classic steam-powered science.

So what do the critics have to say about Karen Memory? Kathy F. at Stellar Four said the book is "stocked with interesting, diverse characters, the villains are heinously evil, the steampunk element starts out subtly then grows, great action, and the titular character and narrator has a distinctive voice." Meanwhile, Joel Cunningham of B&N said "Bear is clearly having a ball with this one, from incorporating crazy gadgetry to writing in Karen’s idiosyncratic, irresistible voice." So this book is getting some good reviews. I may have to check it out.

If you would to learn more about Karen Memory and Elizabeth Bear, check out Far Beyond Reality where Bear writes about steampunk and listed to her interview on Rocket Talk. Bear also stopped by John Scalzi's blog to talk about "The Big Idea" behind the book and had another interview over at Suvudu.

Kevin J. Anderson and Neil Peart's Clockwork Lives Out in September

Speaking of steampunk, last week Kevin J. Anderson and legendary Rush drummer and lyricist Neil Peart announced that the sequel to Clockwork Angels, the steampunk novel that accompanied the Rush concept album of the same name, will be out in September. Titled Clockwork Lives, the press release describes it as a "steampunk Canterbury Tales that explores the lives of secondary characters in Clockwork Angels and introduces a new protagonist." The story will follow Marinda Peake, who is gifted a blank book by her alchemist father that she must fill with other people's stories.

Videos for Alternate Historians

Alright, enough steampunk. Since this is Black Alternate History Month, I decided to do a special edition of this segment. First up, did you know Lion's Blood has its own soundtrack? Check out one of the tracks, "Fire on the Sea", on Heather Alexander's album:

Did anyone ever see White Man's Burden? Well maybe you should check out Fable, a British TV movie where Britain is governed by black people and whites live under apartheid like conditions (thanks to Adrian Cook for finding this for me):

And we are not the only site covering the contributions of African-Americans to speculative fiction. Check out "Science Fiction Authors on Black History Month":

Links to the Multiverse

Amazon TV's The Man in the High Castle

Review: The Man in the High Castle at Lanny Savage.
Review: The Man In The High Castle at Memphis Flyer.

Wait...is that it? Are people starting to forget about The Man in the High Castle?

Books & Short Fiction

5 Time-Looping Tales You’ll Want to Experience More Than Once at Barnes & Noble.
2015 HNS Indie Award: Shortlist and Longlisted Titles at Historical Novel Society.
Alt Hist author Michael Fertik hits New York Times Bestseller list at Alt Hist.
Dennis O’Flaherty on Steampunk’s Legacy at Night Shade Books.
Excerpt: King of the Cracksmen by Dennis O'Flaherty at The Qwillery.
Excerpt: The Violent Century by Lavie Tidhar at Tor.
How Not To Publish A Book by Chris Nuttall at The Chrishanger.
Just how different was George RR Martin’s original Game of Thrones outline? at Winter Is Coming.
Review: The Time Roads by Beth Bernobich at I Make Up Words.
Robert Harris, one of the inspirations for Roma Nova’s existence at Alison Morton's site.
Russia May Slap Germany With A $4.5 Trillion Lawsuit For Nazi Atrocities at io9.
Suzette Haden Elgin – RIP at Amazing Stories.

Counterfactuals, History and News

Arms reduction and alternate Cold War histories by Robert E. Levine at Scitation.
The Brazilian Town Where the American Confederacy Lives On at Vice.
Buzz Kill – 15 Amazing Facts about the V-1 Flying Bomb at Military History News.
Steven Shapin on Churchill and the British Atom Bomb at The Counterfactual History Review.
Three Teachers Were Fired For Teaching African-American History at Woman's Day.

Film & Television

Gay Short Film Showcase: We Are Animals – An alternate history at Big Gay Picture Show.
Readers' Poll: The 10 Best Time Travel Movies at Rolling Stone.
Review: 12 Monkeys series 1.4: "Uneasy Math" at Paul Levinson's Infinite Regress.
TMG takes Strange & Norrell at C21Media.

Games

Alternative Civil War – more new models at Game Wire.

Music

If Taylor Swift Lyrics Were About King Henry VIII at BuzzFeed.
What If Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel Had Been In the Same Band? at Uncle Mike's Musings.

Podcasts

Ratchet RetroCast Ep. 45 – 1+9+8+5 = Retro Pop Culture’s Moral Imperative! at Earth Station One.
Show 21 – Hannibal One at Twilight Histories.

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Matt Mitrovich is the founder and editor of Alternate History Weekly Update and a blogger on Amazing Stories. Check out his short fiction. When not writing he works as an attorney, enjoys life with his beautiful wife Alana and prepares for the inevitable zombie apocalypse. You can follow him on Facebook or Twitter.

New Releases 5/13/14

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The Boy in His Winter: An American Novel by Norman Lock

Launched into existence by Mark Twain, Huck Finn and Jim have now been transported by Norman Lock through three vital, violent, and transformative centuries of American history. As time unfurls on the river’s banks, they witness decisive battles of the Civil War, the betrayal of Reconstruction’s promises to the freed slaves, the crushing of Native American nations, and the electrification of a continent. Huck, who finally comes of age when he’s washed up on shore during Hurricane Katrina, narrates the story as an older and wiser man in 2077, revealing our nation’s past, present, and future as Mark Twain could never have dreamed it.


The Boy in His Winter is a tour-de-force work of imagination, beauty, and courage that re-envisions a great American literary classic for our time.

Clockwork Angels by Kevin J. Anderson  and Neil Peart

Imagine if someone had written the novel of The Wall, Tommy, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band when those classic albums were released. For fans of the multi-platinum band Rush, Clockwork Angels: The Novel is that project. Internationally bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson teams up with Rush lyricist and drummer Neil Peart to expand the story set out in Clockwork Angels, the twentieth studio album by the legendary rock band.

In a young man’s quest to follow his dreams, he is caught between the grandiose forces of order and chaos. He travels through a lavish and colourful world of steampunk and alchemy, with lost cities, pirates, anarchists, exotic carnivals, and a rigid Watchmaker who imposes precision on every aspect of daily life.

For more than two centuries, the land of Albion has been ruled by the supposedly benevolent Watchmaker, who imposes precision on every aspect of life. Young Owen Hardy from the village of Barrel Arbor dreams of seeing the big city and the breathtaking Clockwork Angels that dispense wisdom to the people, maybe even catching a glimpse of the Watchmaker himself.


He watched the steamliners drift by, powered by alchemical energy, as they head towards the Crown City — never dreaming that he is already caught between the grandiose forces of order and chaos, between the Watchmaker and his nemesis, the Anarchist. Owen’s journeys begin at a fabulous carnival with clockwork wonders beyond his imagination, and take him aboard airships, far into the Redrock Desert to seek lost cities, through storms at sea to encounters with pirates ... and give him a chance at love.

To fans, authors and publishers...

Is your story going to be published in time for the next New Releases? Contact us at ahwupdate at gmail dot com.  We are looking for works of alternate history, counterfactual history, steampunk, historical fantasy, time travel or anything that warps history beyond our understanding.

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Matt Mitrovich is the founder and editor of Alternate History Weekly Update and a blogger on Amazing Stories. Check out his short fiction. When not writing he works as an attorney, enjoys life with his beautiful wife Alana and prepares for the inevitable zombie apocalypse. You can follow him on Facebook or Twitter.

Weekly Update #70.2

Editor's Note

Grab your goggles and fire up that boiler. Time for the steampunk edition of Weekly Update.

Clockwork Angels by Kevin J. Anderson

So I am sure we have all heard about the literary team-up between author Kevin J. Anderson and Neil Peart of Rush. Anderson's new novel Clockwork Angels is based off Rush's new album with the same name, inspired by the story and lyrics of the album and expanding it into a full-length story. Here is the description from Amazon:

A remarkable collaboration that is unprecedented in its scope and realization, this exquisitely wrought novel represents an artistic project between the bestselling science fiction author Kevin J. Anderson and the multiplatinum rock band Rush. The newest album by Rush, Clockwork Angels, sets forth a story in Neil Peart’s lyrics that has been expanded by him and Anderson into this epic novel. In a young man’s quest to follow his dreams, he is caught between the grandiose forces of order and chaos. He travels across a lavish and colorful world of steampunk and alchemy with lost cities, pirates, anarchists, exotic carnivals, and a rigid Watchmaker who imposes precision on every aspect of daily life. The mind-bending story is complemented with rich paintings by the five-time Juno Award winner for Best Album Design, Hugh Syme.

Wait, there's more! Anderson actually wrote a guest post on John Scalzi's blog describing the novel and it turns out he is a bigger Rush fan then I realized. You can learn even more about the novel during an interview Anderson did over at io9 where he discusses his love of Rush, collaborations, steampunk and dystopias.

Tai Chi 0 reviews

The first reviews of the steampunk, martial arts film Tai Chi Zero (check out the full trailer here) are in and they are not good. Film Business Asia said Tai Chi Zero "is poorly directed, weakly written and iffily cast, and tries way too hard to be different and cheeky, overloading the viewer with visual information while ignoring basic elements like structure, storyline and character development." Ouch. The Hollywood Reporter was only marginally better when they said "[h]ardcore teenage fantasy fans and video-gamers may find director Stephen Fung’s brand of irreverent comedy irresistible, but viewers past the youngest demographics will tune out to the threadbare comic book-style story and childish characters, though not without a few amazed laughs at the inventive audacity of the project."

O well. Interesting concept, but I guess it fails in execution.

Clockwork Empires

Gaslamp Games, Inc. have announced their upcoming new game, Clockwork Empires. A steampunk themed city-building game, Clockwork Empires begins with you building a colony for your steampunk empire and defending it from malevolent entities from "Beyond the Stars" (that damn squid god!). Here is the premise:

It's sad times in the Empire. The Queen is locked up - for her own good or her Prime Minister's is impossible to say - and the Church of the Holy Cog prophesies ruin as it prays for the salvation of the Empire. However there are options; the Colonies offer riches and fame, for those bold enough to emigrate.

The game will feature many tropes from the genre including street urchins, aristocrats, zeppelins and mad scientists. Unlike our own imperial age "here, there be dragons" should be taken literarly and you never know what those pesky scientists are doing behind closed doors (is that chanting I hear?).

It has been a while since I played a city-sim like this, but I might have to pick up a copy when it comes out.

Things to do

Today until Sept 23: See a steampunk version of "Wizard of Oz" in Glendale, AZ.

Sept 15-16: Steampunk Weekend of the Old West Festival in Ohio.

Links to the Multiverse

Articles

Egyptian Influences in Victoriana and Steampunk by Maeve Alpin at Steamed!

The Literary Steampunk: A Market Defined by Karina Cooper at Steamed!

Mars Rover Curiosity is a Steampunk Creation by Ian O'Neill at Astro Engine.

Nautical Steampunk by Maeve Alpin at Steamed!

What's steampunk? by Julia Eccleshare at The Guardian.

Books

'Dark Unwinding' and the promise of secret passages by Diane Petryk Bloom at Examiner.com.

Fiction Review: That Darn Squid God by Nick Polotta and James Clay done by Leanne Tough at Steampunk Magazine.

Non-Fiction review: The Art of Steampunk by Art Donovan done by Leanne Tough at Steampunk Magazine.

Review: 'The Iron Wyrm Affair' by Lilith Saintcrow done by Jessie Potts at Happy Ever After.

Review of Vampire Empire 3: The Kingmakers by Clay and Susan Griffith done by Falcata Times.

Games

Herocraft's Steampunk inspired game The Tiny Bang Story drops Sony exclusivity by Mystery Manor.

Watch the Origins of Dishonored's Dark Steampunk World in this New Trailer by Dave Thier at Forbes.

Music

The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing release new single today by Jack at Alt Sounds.

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Matt Mitrovich is the founder and editor of Alternate History Weekly Update, a volunteer editor for Alt Hist and a contributor to Just Below the Law. His fiction can be found at Echelon Press, Jake's Monthly and his own writing blog. When not writing he works as an attorney and enjoys life with his beautiful wife Alana.

Weekly Update #57

Editor's Note

Good we are back on track.  We broke our monthly page view record in May, so now the new record to beat is 6463.  Thanks again everybody and this is on top of surpassing 100 Twitter followers.  Speaking of social networking, those of you who use Digg can also find me posting updates on Weekly Update there.

Please also check out the Historical Novel Society and read my guide to alternate history.  It is the first of what I hope to be many guest posts I make on other websites in the near future as I continue to promote Weekly Update.

And now the news...

Clockwork Angels by Kevin J. Anderson...and Rush?

I'm not joking, here is the press release from Kevin J Anderson's blog:

In an innovative combination of music and literature, the new album Clockwork Angels by legendary rock band Rush has been converted into a full-length “steampunk” science fiction novel by international bestselling SF author Kevin J. Anderson and Rush drummer and lyricist Neil Peart.

The music throughout the Clockwork Angels album—the band’s 20th studio album—forms the backbone of a colorful adventure story, which is now fully realized in Clockwork Angels: The Novel (ECW Press, hardcover, September 2012). The story tells of a young man caught between the grandiose forces of order and chaos. On a quest to follow his dreams, he travels across a lavish and colorful world of steampunk and alchemy, with lost cities, pirates, anarchists, exotic carnivals, airships and steam engines, and a rigid Watchmaker who imposes precision on every aspect of daily life.

Anderson (who has over 50 national and international bestsellers to his credit and has recently been named 2012’s Grandmaster by the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers for lifetime achievement in the field) has often been influenced by music, particularly Rush.  His first novel, Resurrection, Inc., was directly inspired by the Rush album Grace Under Pressure, which sparked a long-term friendship with Peart. “You can find Rush references sprinkled through many of my Dune novels, the Saga of Seven Suns, my Terra Incognita trilogy,” Anderson says. “Probably more than even I can identify, because the music is so intertwined in my imagination.”

Peart, an accomplished author in his own right (Ghost Rider, Roadshow, Far and Away) and Anderson already co-wrote a short story, “Drumbeats” (WordFire Press), but the pair have always been looking for something more ambitious to combine their creative interests and talents.

Peart is also an avid reader of Anderson’s fiction. “For something like 20 years, Kevin and I discussed working on a project together that would marry music, lyrics, and prose fiction,” he says. “The right idea and timing eluded us for a long time, but at last, both converged perfectly.” Clockwork Angels: The Novel seemed a natural.

Peart approached Anderson with the idea several years ago, when Rush was in the early stages of creating the album. As the lyrics and music were completed, the two brainstormed the story, characters, setting, adventures, and ideas, sometimes with a flurry of a dozen e-mails per day.  The artist Hugh Syme—who created eight illustrations for the CD booklet and original works for the novel—also provided inspiration.

“This is a dream project for me,” Anderson says.  “I have always envisioned epic stories when listening to Rush music, and now working with Neil, it’s possible to translate those stories to the printed page. Clockwork Angels: The Novel turned out even better than we had hoped. I think it’s one of my very best books.”

“As my 38 years with Rush will attest, I very much enjoy collaboration with like-minded artists,” Peart says. “Working up this story with Kevin was one of the easiest, yet most satisfying projects I have ever shared—easiest, because we almost always simply agreed with each other’s ideas, and most satisfying because I am so proud of the result.”

The recording of Clockwork Angels began in April 2010 with Grammy Award–winning producer Nick Raskulinecz (FOO FIGHTERS, DEFTONES) — who also collaborated with the band on their previous studio album, 2007’s Snakes & Arrows. RUSH co-produced both records.

In 2010, Rush released the first two tracks from Clockwork Angels, “Caravan” and “BU2B,” which formed the cornerstone of new material around their highly successful “Time Machine” world tour. The next single from Clockwork Angels, “Headlong Flight,” was recently released and immediately became #1 at Classic Rock radio.  The lyrics of those songs somewhat frame the story for what is Clockwork Angels: The Novel.

The album will be released on June 12.  Clockwork Angels: The Novel will be in stores in September to coincide with the launch of Rush’s North America tour.  ECW Press will publish the book in hardcover with full-color illustrations by Syme; the audiobook will be available from Brilliance Audio, narrated by Neil Peart; WordFire Press will release the eBook version.

Victorian-Steampunk Days

Those living near Fawnskin, CA can attend Victorian-Steampunk Days on June 9th and 10th.  Tickets are $15 for adults (discounts for seniors, students and kids).  Those attending will see 19th century Victorians, pioneers, old miners, literary characters, shoot-outs in the streets, strange devices, arrests and judgments.  Learn more here.

Links to the Multiverse

Article

In an alternate history, Barcelona just won the Champions League by scaryice at Climbing the Ladder.

What’s a thriller? by Alison Morton at Write a novel? I must be mad!

Interview

2012 Snapshot Interview: John Birmingham by kathrynlinge.

Sword Fighting with Neal Stephenson and His Mongoliad Co-Authors by Douglas Wolk at io9.

Books

1636 The Kremlin Games – Snippet 43 by Eric Flint.

CLASH of EAGLES Campaign Update 2 by Sebastian P. Breit.

Clockwork Reviews: Phoenix Rising—A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences, by Tee Morris and Pip Ballantine done by Marie Andrews at Nevermet Press.

Guest Author: Joseph Nassise at Literary Escapism.

In High Places, by Harry Turtledove (fiction) - alternative history, time travel, danger done by Katy Manck at BooksYALove.

Online Alternate History

May 31, 1902 – Treaty of Vereeniging Assures Boer Independence by This Day in Alternate History.

Pictures

Superman, Spider-Man, and friends photobomb history by CNET at Yahoo Games.

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Matt Mitrovich is the founder and editor of Alternate History Weekly Update, a volunteer editor for the Alt Hist magazine and a contributor to Just Below the Law. One of his short stories will be published in the upcoming Echelon Press anthology, Once Upon a Clockwork Tale (2013). When not writing he works as an attorney in the state of Illinois and enjoys life with his beautiful wife Alana.