Crossing the Delaware by Air?
Steam Patriots is a “transmedia interactive project” from Noble Beast Books, publisher of speculative fiction in print, digital, and audio forms. Its past titles include Steampunk Holmes.
The image above is a detail of Patrick Arrasmith’s scratchboard illustration “George Washington with Airships.” See the full image at the Steam Patriots site. It “will be included in the interactive iPad edition and will be sold separately as a poster.”
I first heard about this project some months ago, but apparently a necessary part of launching a Kickstarter campaign these days is to create video promotions and previews. That seem circular to me, but then I’m old enough to remember when videos were harder to produce than manuscripts, photographs, and drawings.
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As someone who uses the moniker "Colonial Air Force", this seems right up my alley!
(Yes I aped the idea from the Confederate Air Force)
Does anyone else think of 18th century "subscriptions" when they look at kickstarter?
Oh, yeah. Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and all those sites owe a lot to the subscription model of book publishing. John Andrews’s comments about Phillis Wheatley’s poems (which I've quoted at various times) sound a lot like people waiting for the books they've paid for to finally come out.
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