He’s incredibly brilliant, but he always felt small, odd, and different, and his sexuality as he matures is another way he’s simply not like other men. What can you share with us about their personality traits, motivations, and inner qualities?ĮE: Tinker’s sexuality defines a lot of how he feels about himself. Both are also confined, maybe defined, by their circumstances. I’ve read some interesting pieces of how the earlier nuclear scientists felt when their work was used for the bomb, so I incorporated some of that.ĪA: Both of the main characters, Tinker and Colin, like so many of us, see their perceived weaknesses as partially or mostly defining them, despite the strengths which other people clearly see. What I tried to do with the story is stay as true to the British/Crimean war period as possible, only tweaking the sophistication of the clockworks technology and how much of a role it played in war and weaponry. In the story, the war department uses Tinker and clockworks to create sophisticated weapons, so there’s an anti-war spin on the story.ĪA: How does Caress express your vision of steampunk, and what does it add to the existing works in the genre?ĮE: To be honest, I’m not a huge reader of steampunk, so it’s hard for me to compare it to other works in the genre. He ends up working for the British war department during the Crimean war and he falls for a soldier he’s been tasked with saving by giving him clockwork hands. His mentor had fashioned a mechanical heart for him when his own heart failed. The main character of the story is a man, Tinker, who is a genius clockwork maker. I’d never written steampunk before and it sounded like a fun challenge.
What is that short story about?ĮE: I wrote the story for a m/m steampunk anthology. Of interest to steampunks will be your story, Caress, in the Steamed Up anthology.
This week we are talking with Eli Easton, author of Caress in the steampunk anthology Steamed Upby Dreamspinner Press.Īirship Ambassador: Hi Eli, thanks for joining us for this interview.ĪA: Readers may know you from your previous work, including Before I Wake, Puzzle Me This, and your most recent book, Snowblind.
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