Book signing features first in new sci-fi series

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With the recent success of box office hits like Sherlock Holmes (2009) and The Prestige (2006), it’s clear that the fresh stylistic movement known as steampunk is becoming increasingly popularized in mainstream culture.

On Saturday, May 7, Bookworks in Downtown Staunton will be hosting the first book-signing for Phoenix Rising, a rip-roaring, sexy romp by steampunk aficionados Pip Ballantine & Tee Morris and the first installment of the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences novel series.

The 1-3 p.m. event features the book’s distinctive Victorian Era backdrops combined with modern, re-imagined technologies realized as elaborate works of art, fashion and mechanics, make steampunk a feast for the imagination.

Born in New Zealand, Pip Ballantine has always had her head in a book. A corporate librarian for 13 years, she has a bachelor of arts in English and a bachelor of applied science in library and information science. She is New Zealand’s first podcast novelist and has produced four podiobooks, and she has won a Sir Julius Vogel Award. She is also the author of Geist and the soon-to-be-published Spectyr. While New Zealand still calls to her, currently Pip “calls” America home.

Tee Morris has been working as a freelance graphic artist, web designer and video editor with his own business, Imagine That! Studios, since 1993. He has been working with Adobe Premiere since version 4.2.

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