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Tarot
Meets Steampunk
By
SM Blooding
I love Tarot and I love Steampunk. Both are filled
with such wonder, but for different reasons.
In The Hands
of Tarot, the collision of the two was accidental. I was writing Book 2 of
the Demon Talker Novels, and allowing
The Hands of Tarot to just run in the
background. It didn’t have a title, a plot, characters, anything. I was
building the world; creating the history, cataloging animals, coming up with
the library. I do this all the time.
When I’m writing one book, the next one is running in the background
percolating so that by the time I’m ready to write it, it’s ready to be
written.
I was doing a Tarot reading to find the direction
I needed for the plot of Those Damn
Angels. However, the reading I drew had nothing to do with the book I was
writing. I completed the reading, and then sat back and scratched my head. I
had no idea what was going on.
The thing about Tarot is that you don’t always
understand what the cards are telling you at the time. It’s very rare that that
happens to me now, but it does still occasionally occur. You’re opening a door
between your conscious mind and your faith. The other side doesn’t always care
what your question is. Sometimes, the problem is that you’re not asking the
right questions.
I let it bounce around in my head for a few days.
Then it hit me. The reading I’d pulled wasn’t for The Demon Talker Novels. It was for the book I was still building,
which had no direction, no purpose. My brain EXPLODED. There were characters
leaping from the cards. I saw the Knight of Wands, and all of a sudden, there
was Synn. His history was there, his Voice—well, to be honest. His Voice wasn’t
quite there yet. There were a few failed attempts to capture it. The supporting
cast were all pulled from the deck; the Page of Swords, the Knight of Cups, the
Page of Coins, The Devil, and the four queens.
With those cards in hand, I literally just started
doing readings. I hadn’t decided this book was going to be Steampunk in nature.
It was just going to be pure fantasy, but through the readings, I decided that
it really was Steampunk. A lot of my readings had to do with inventing and
re-creating their society and their world. They’re really in a state of
re-defining who they are. Comparatively speaking, they’re on the cusp of their
Industrial Revolution.
I was doing some research on Nikola Tesla, just
for fun because I’m a geek like that, and I was hit with this idea of making
him a hero! I’ve always wanted to
make him a hero. Well, then Sactuary
had the same idea and made him a vampire. I can’t compete with a vampiric geek
hero. I can’t. But I said to myself, “Self, what is it about him and others
like him that you’re drawn to?”
So I broadened my research and started looking at all of the inventors and scientists of
that era. I realized that the thing I absolutely love about him and that era was the fact that they were so daring!
They literally didn’t look at what they couldn’t
do. They challenged the world, dared society to be as bold as they were. And those
that couldn’t, those that didn’t, were beneath them.
I really, really wanted to encapsulate that
because I think, that is something we’ve lost. Our lives are so easy. We sit
and read and watch, but we don’t do. We have no need to.
So, that’s how Tarot met Steampunk. I decided that
since the hierarchy of my “government” was derived from the deck, I’d go ahead
and just call the government Tarot. I let my inner geek out, and I had an
absolute blast with it. I had SO much fun writing it. It was great for me to
write and I think you’re really going to enjoy it.
About
the Author:
SM Blooding lives in Colorado with her pet
rock, Rockie, and Ms. Jack, who’s a real bird. She’s still learning to play the
piano and guitar, which is going marginally better, and for those of you
looking for an Arabic update, she has successfully learned one word, “Yalla,
people yalla!”She’s dated vampires, werewolves, sorcerers, weapons smugglers and US Government assassins. Yes. She has stories.
Her latest book is the YA steampunk, The Hands of Tarot.
Visit SM Blooding on the web at www.smblooding.com.
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About
the Book:
She imprisoned and
beat him.And now she thinks he’s her trophy.
Synn El’Asim will do almost anything to prove her wrong. But he’s only proving her right.
Queen Nix awakened his Mark of power and inducted him into the House of Wands. She knew what she was doing. The son of the two most powerful Families standing against her is the ultimate prize. What she didn’t take into consideration was that maybe he was too strong for her.
Maybe.
The Families are weakened, and it’ll take a lot more than one young man with a powerful Mark to take on…
The Hands of Tarot.
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