When I started this blog in 2016, I had a lot of time on my hands, as I had just been laid off after some sixteen years with the No Frills chain, and it was another three or four months before I was once again employed. Thus I had plenty of time to work up the blog, post some story snippets and add some cosplay pictures which I had started into when I began organizing the material for the steampunk and fictional history of the Age of Steam, Steel and Iron background which had long been in my head and existed as a series of short stories, sketches and background notes for many years previously but not had been organized into a formalized concept. The idea for the blog had been kicking around for sometime but I didn't get the firmly fixed in my head til a chance meeting and an interesting discussion, at the Hamilton Comic Convention, really caused the idea to jump from a fuzzy concept to actually doing something concrete about it.
To be honest when I started the blog, I was not expecting a huge amount of interest, as steampunk, cosplay and historical fiction are to some extent niche markets, as not everyone is interested in them though there are considerable audiences for all three worldwide. Although I expected to get a few pageviews from people on general curiousity once they found it, if nothing else, and I worked to expand knowledge of it's existence at conventions by passing out my Sir Leo Worthing-Topper, social cards and chatting with people about my costume when they expressed interest in it. These cosplay experiences at conventions lead me to realize there was some interest in the subjects I was writing posts and articles about if I could get them out to an audience.
One of these days I am hoping, that I will have assembled enough material to print some story anthologies books or booklets and the like and get a table at one of the conventions I attend, though that is a project very much for the future as still have a lot of work in assembling and editting material before that could be considered a possibility.
In any event, I am happy if people have found the various stories and posts of mine, entertaining or interesting. I hope to eventually have some illustrations done for maps or the various characters appearing in the stories at some time in the future circumstances and my finances permitting, and to expand on some of the collabrative story work I have begun with the Hellfire Chronicles stories regarding the original character, Marie Luise von Eggenberg, created by Pelycosaur24.
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