All Made of Hinges: A Mormon Steampunk Anthology #1

Cheerful in the face of dark opposition. Innovative to improve a backward world. Industrial as a cure for oppressive conditions. Unyielding beneath all who seek to bind & control them. Faithful until they conquer the fear of death & rise to great acts of heroism & service. Mormons & Steampunks are two faces of the same coin.Twelve authors spin tales of true believers facing impossible odds, risking this life in the hope of gaining something better after. Mormon Battalion soldiers fight an airship, a bounty hunter crosses Porter Rockwell, cultists attempt to reanimate Brigham Young, & missionaries run into Cthulhu. These are just a few of the amazing tales by award winning, bestselling, & premier authors—D. J. Butler, John M. Olsen, Steven L. Peck, Elizabeth Mueller, Scott E. Tarbet, Jay Barnson, Joe Monson, Amanda Hamblin, Christopher McAfee, Jace Killan, John D. Payne, & Lee Allred.All Made of Hinges is the first installment in the incredible three-part Mormon Steampunk series by Immortal Works Press. If you love these stories, look for more in Put Your Shoulder to the Wheel & Press Forward, Saints.°°°Author's IntroSteampunk has been good to me. Early in my writing career, I set a deadline for myself. If I didn’t sell a story or novel by that day, I would quit writing & take up a different pursuit. When the day came & passed, depression gripped me. I loved writing, but it seemed writing didn’t love me.The next morning, I checked my e-mail & found an acceptance letter! It arrived before midnight the day before... just beating the deadline. My steampunk story had been accepted to Science Fiction Trails & would appear in volume 8. & for that honor, they paid me twenty bucks! It wasn’t much, but I took it as a sign.As a faithful Mormon, the idea of mixing the two genres intrigued me. So, when D. J. Butler, invited me to co-edit an anthology, I jumped at the chance... Cheerful in the face of dark opposition. Innovative to improve a backward world. Industrial as a cure for oppressive conditions. Unyielding beneath all who seek to bind and control them. Faithful until they conquer the fear of death and rise to great acts of heroism and service. Mormons and Steampunks are two faces of the same coin. Twelve authors spin tales of true believers facing impossible odds, risking this life in the hope of gaining something better after. Mormon Battalion soldiers fight an airship, a bounty hunter crosses Porter Rockwell, cultists attempt to reanimate Brigham Young, and missionaries run into Cthulhu. These are just a few of the amazing tales by award winning, bestselling, and premier authors--D. J. Butler, John M. Olsen, Steven L. Peck, Elizabeth Mueller, Scott E. Tarbet, Jay Barnson, Joe Monson, Amanda Hamblin, Christopher McAfee, Jace Killan, John D. Payne, and Lee Allred. All Made of Hinges is the first installment in the incredible three-part Mormon Steampunk series by Immortal Works Press. If you love these stories, look for more in Put Your Shoulder to the Wheel and Press Forward, Saints