Monica Fairview, Author

  Alright everybody. Here's my new cover. What do you think? Designed by the talented JD Dixon White Soup Press What kind of impression do you get from the cover? Thank you for following me here to my blog! Please remember to sign up to receive news, updates and posts. Now, exclusively here on  My Steampunk Darcy Realm , I'm posting the first teaser extract from the novel.   Excerpt Chapter 1 Alright, Mr. Hoity-Toity. This had better be good. I’m risking skin and bone to get here. The door opened and she strode into—. Whatever it was, it wasn’t an office. It was an emporium, a museum and the Great Exhibition of 1851, complete with Victorian gents and ladies who had the glazed look of trophy animals. Except that the Victorians were standing around instead of hanging on the wall. “Are these actual people? Did you have them stuffed and embalmed?” she asked, by way of greeting, “Or are they wax figures, like Madame Tussauds?” In the gloomy gas lamp-lit interior, she...

Hello everyone!  I'm thrilled to say that I'm finally able to reveal my new book cover on Facebook. Please drop in and help me celebrate! Monica Fairview requests the pleasure of your company at Steampunk Darcy Cover Reveal Where: Facebook When: Wednesday August 2 1

I'm participating in the Austen in August Mansfield Park Read Along. I'll be posting responses here or on Twitter .

I'm gearing up towards the release of Steampunk Darcy in October. Check out my new blog My Steampunk Darcy Realm for updates and more information. Meanwhile, I'll still be posting on Austen Authors , my web page and elsewhere as well as on Facebook and Twitter .  Meanwhile, I've been blogging about Emma  as part of Austen in August at Roof Beam Reader . 

According to the Independent, UK , stores across the country are gearing up for the new fashion trend: Steampunk! Is it possible? Are we to find corsets and top hats in every shop window? It would be strange if Steampunk fashion transforms from niche to trendy, and if people all around all start wearing Steampunk-style clothing, but I find the idea thrilling. If I were an artist, I would try to depict how this would look, like the person did in this 1909 postcard. Perhaps the future the artist is depicting might come true after all! The Future of America (courtesy Steampunk Morris ) Isn't it great? Could we all be dressed like this in the near future? The postcard, by the way, is from Revere Beach, Massachusetts. I used to drive to work every day passing through that very street. They don't have the tram cars anymore, but they do have the exact same bandstand, so it looks familiar. It seems to have been a fashion at one point to create postcards of various towns in Massa...

Steampunk Darcy A Pride and Prejudice-Inspired Comedy Adventure Blurb William Darcy is obsessed with his ancestors. So much so that he intends to rebuild Pemberley (destroyed during the Uprising) stone by stone, and he wants to employ reconstruction expert Seraphene Grant to help him. Or does he? Seraphene wasn’t born yesterday. She can smell a rat, particularly when it stinks all the way up to her airship. She knows Darcy is hiding something. But with the Authorities after her and her other options dwindling by the moment, the temptation of genuine English tea and a gorgeous Steampunk gentleman are very difficult to resist. But what if Darcy’s mystery job courts nothing but trouble? What if Darcy is harboring a secret to kill for? When kiss comes to shove, will Darcy’s secret destroy Seraphene, or will it be her salvation? Join us on a romantic adventure like no other in this whimsical Pride and Prejudice -inspired tribute, featuring Wickham, Georgiana, dirigibles, funky fish, and sw...