Lori Alden Holuta lives between the cornfields of mid-Michigan, where she grows vegetables, teas, and herbs, when she’s not playing games with a cat named Chives. She’s fond of activities from the past, including canning and preserving, crocheting, and of course, reading everything she can get her mitts on.
Her lifelong fascination with the Victorian era dovetailed nicely with articles she wrote some years ago for The Primgraph, an online magazine which focused on historical reconstructions in virtual worlds, as well as music and book reviews for Steampunk Magazine.
Her first novel, The Flight To Brassbright, is endearing itself to young teenage girls and a surprising number of grown-ups. The sequel, Down The Tubes, seems to be in an eternal state of ‘nearly done’ but she’s going to surprise you when it publishes, possibly sooner than you think. Book three, The Hidden Doors is in a delightful state of disarray, and book four, Off The Rails, is in development.
A hopeless foodie, she also writes playful cookbooks (Steamed and Steamy, Shredding It). And being a child at heart forever, she published Full Steam Ahead: A Short Story Collection Where Kids Save the Day. Her newest venture spins her love of rhymes and wordplay into Parlor Poetry: A Victorian Versification Abecedary.
About this Author’s Website
The Brassbright Chronicle is a ‘newspaper’ for reader’s enlightenment and entertainment. Most of it will revolve around the fictional world of BrightHope, particularly the continent of Industralia, created by Lori Alden Holuta in her Victorian-Era Steampunk-ish Carnival-esque Bohemian Urban Fantasy Comedy books (that’s a genre, right?). There’s also info about her various other writing pursuits, such as cookbooks and poetry collections. And there’s real-life stuff too, if it ties in. Really, this place is for us to all have fun!
I hope you enjoy reading The Brassbright Chronicle. Any compliments should be sent to the author, who will be delighted to hear from you. Any complaints should be forwarded to the Newsroom Editor, who was last seen leaping onto a small steamboat leaving port heading South.
And, dear reader, your voice is welcome here! I’d love to hear what you have to say, in comment on posts here, or in social media, or Goodreads. Best of all, leave an honest book review (I can take it!) at your favorite online bookseller.
One day, I hope to be able to read your Industralia-based fanfiction. After all, I sharpened my teeth on fanfic back in *train passes by, the roar of which obscures year*. It’s a fun way to hone your storytelling and writing skills.