Monthly Archives: December 2012

Dec
25
2012

Buy Either of the SteamGoth Anthology Books for 0.99 cents on Kindle

by Jonathan David Baird

We don’t normally push our products but since we are having an after Christmas sale  I thought I would give everyone that reads the Freehold a heads up. Check out our books here… Monsters, Magic, and Machines     Or Here… Sorcery, Steam, and Steel (BTW Kindle lists SSS as having 94 pages it is actually 202 pages long so it is longer than MMM… For some reason Kindle has read the page length incorrectly when it was uploaded)   That also reminds me that in March our next Read more […]

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Dec
19
2012

The Enquiring Hitchhiker Interviews New Author Trey Garrison

by Jonathan David Baird

Our first interview after our short hiatus is with Trey Garrison. Mr. Garrison is one of the newest authors with Harper Collins ebook line. I believe his book comes out today and I also believe this is his first interview. We wish him a long and fruitful career in SF. The Hitchhiker asks…. Question 1- Your new book Black Sun Rising revolves around Nazis, and magic in a Dieselpunk setting I have been interested in learning more about Dieselpunk and it seems you are just the person to ask. Tell Read more […]

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Dec
17
2012

Mythology and the Superhero: A Personal Reflection on Genre. Part 1

by Jonathan David Baird

As a 12 years old on a rainy Saturday afternoon I would have nothing to do but lie on my bed and stare at the ceiling. Growing up in rural Western North Carolina there was only one television station we could pick up, so many times  I would look to the stack of comic books sitting on my desk for entertainment. I would reach over, pick one up, open one up and I would be whisked away into your mythic world where superheroes prowl the night and fly in sunlit skies. This my rainy Saturday afternoon Read more […]

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