Guest Blogger Author Wayne Tripp

I’ve always been a storyteller. As a young child I’d hasten  sleep by creating little stories to tell myself based on whatever was my current  favorite TV show.  Long before the  age of I-phones and video games, my friends and I would run screaming through  the neighborhood yards dawn to dusk acting out adventures starring our favorite  TV and movie heroes and heroines.

 Later, as a young adult with kids of my own, I began building,  painting and competing with military or fanciful miniatures in many of the  Atlantic Coast model shows. I noticed the figures that won gold medals or sold  were always the ones that somehow told a story. Instead of just standing at  attention or marching, my soldier might be depicted reading a letter from home  or protecting a lady friend.

 I worked for years as a designer illustrator. Many of the class  rings you see on the fingers of high school, college and military academy  graduates began as my design. It was toward the end of this career that I began  to write.

 Since then, I’ve had a dozen short stories and e-novels  published, many with an  exotic or New England background, a dash of adventure, a nasty villain, and a  hero or heroine who does eventually win the  girl.

My  current novel is no exception.   Set in late nineteenth century New England, Like  Clockwork is a Steampunk Romance centering around the stormy  relationship of Irish heiress, Kathleen McBride, and disgraced Boston cop turned  reluctant seaman, turned airship crafter, Scott Wildethorne. Enhanced with  Yankee history, steampunk gadgetry and oddities, Like Clockwork reveals a tightly wound tale taunt with human frailty and  soul-harrowing peril. Its a tale too of paranormal vengence and raw passion that  brings two unlikely lost souls-who would have felt right at home in Wuthering  Heights-together for all eternity. Look for it this summer from Tell-Tale  Publishing Group.