N.O.A. Rawle: Through the Eyes of a Stranger

As you know I've been doing the Steampunk thing in a big way of late and this weekend I participated in my first on line tea party!  The Scribblers' Den in the Steampunk Empire celebrated it's 1st Anniversary on September 19th. The event was hosted on line with lots of witty banter, tea & cakes, tea duelling and of course, a short story competition! All of the entries are available to read  here at the moment, but the Denizen's are toying with thee idea of an ebook to be made available at some time in the near future. My story  'Walk In The Park' got lashings of praise so I was very pleased especially as it was something I rushed off in a couple of hours! Rambunctious Ramblings Collective Ramblings: Volume One , which includes my winning Steampunk story 'Synchronysi' , is available for pre-order through an indiegogo campaign . Please sign up to get your copy! This weekend 'Hides the Dark Tower' , which include my story 'Cor...

Don your goggles, I have some Rambunctious news!   But first things first, if you do not know what Steampunk is let me take you on the adventurous voyage I took to Steampunk and hopefully you will learn a little more! I was a Goth. I say this in all seriousness but with the sly smile of one forced to join AA but with no will to do so. Meaning I still have a Bauhaus moment or two and although I no longer practise  Bela Lugosi's Dead on my double bass, you will hear me screaming along to the Cult  Revolution or prancing about to Sisters of Mercy  Temple of Love . Goth, as I know it, has nothing to do with Emo. I do not, and never did, mope around in cemeteries, although I do have a strange admiration of Victorian funerary art. Neither does it have anything in common with Black Metal or devil worship. That said, I love dark fiction and movies related to these things and I am n...