Michael Coorlim
Biography
About The Author
Even before he could write Michael Coorlim was filling up spiral notebooks with stories, picture books presented to his grandparents as gifts, and performing small plays with his younger cousins for relatives during holiday gatherings. This love of storytelling stayed with him as he grew older, slumbering like an unawakened beast, sending him strange and terrifying dreams during his adolescence.
Even when not writing he feasted on the words of authors like Kurt Vonnegut, Terry Pratchet, Douglas Adams, and Ray Bradbury, spending so much time reading from hidden books in the middle of his middle school classes that his grades began to suffer. He'd sneak home with books that his teachers never assigned, and gorge on their contents overnight, and return them stealthily the next day only to take another.
Though a prolific writer he found the prospect and process of traditional publication daunting, often preparing query letters and researching markets only to never get around to submitting any of his work. It wasn't until he reached his thirties that he took the steps to write professionally, and by then the self-publishing revolution had already begun.
Michael currently lives in the city of Chicago with his girlfriend and their cat, living his childhood dream of supporting himself as an author of fast-paced character-driving fiction about authentic people in fascinating situations.
TALES OF A GALVANIC AGE
The Bartleby and James Adventures
And They Called Her Spider (December 2011)
Maiden Voyage of the Rio Grande (January 2012)
On the Trail of the Scissorman (February 2012)
A Matter of Spirit (April 2012)
The Collected Bartleby and James Adventures (April 2012)
Chronicles of a Gentlewoman
Sky Pirates Over London (August 2012)
The Tower of Babbage (October 2012)
Fine Young Turks (October 2012)
A Gentlewoman's Chronicles (November 2012)
CONTACT
Michael's Website: http://www.mcoorlim.com
Michael's Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/mcoorlim
Michael's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/mcoorlim
Michael's Publisher: http://www.pomoconsumption.com
Where to find Michael Coorlim online
Books
March of the Cogsmen: A Galvanic Century Novel
by Michael Coorlim
Price: $3.99 USD. 29800 words.
Published by PoMoCo Press on April 5, 2013. Fiction.
It's been a rough year for gentlewoman Aldora Fiske -- airship battles above London, doomed expeditions in the jungles of Mexico, and even a kidnapping in Istanbul -- and now her bridegroom Alton Bartleby has shown up drunk to their wedding. Yes, it's a marriage of convenience and not one of love, and everyone knows it, but when an old foe decides to strike, things go from bad to worse.
Steampunk Omnibus
by Michael Coorlim
Price: $4.99 USD. 80240 words.
Published by PoMoCo Press on November 26, 2012. Fiction.
The Steampunk Omnibus is a collection of the best-selling titles from the Collected Bartleby and James Adventures and the Gentlewoman's Chronicles anthologies of steampunk mystery and thriller fiction. Includes And They Called Her Spider, Maiden Voyage of the Rio Grande, On the Trail of the Scissorman, A Matter of Spirit, Sky Pirates Over London, The Tower of Babbage, and Fine Young Turks.
A Gentlewoman's Chronicles
by Michael Coorlim
Price: $2.99 USD. 43750 words.
Published by PoMoCo Press on November 24, 2012. Fiction.
Chronicles of a Gentlewoman is an action-packed thriller series set in an alternate history Victorian steampunk world. This collection of three novelletes takes Aldora Fiske all the way from London, to the jungles of Mexico, to the Ottoman Empire.
This collection includes Sky Pirates Over London, The Tower of Babbage, and Fine Young Turks.
Fine Young Turks: Chronicles of a Gentlewoman 3
by Michael Coorlim
Price: $1.99 USD. 16690 words.
Published by PoMoCo Press on October 30, 2012. Fiction.
Her loveless wedding of convenience approaching, gentlewoman Aldora Fiske is among the influential Europeans to accept a handsome nobleman's invitation to show off the Ottoman Empire and its secularist reforms.
After she alone escapes the devious plot to kidnap the foreign guests, she's confronted with an Empire where women are given all the rights of men, and a man who treats her like an equal.
Sky Pirates Over London: Chronicles of a Gentlewoman 1
by Michael Coorlim
Price: $0.99 USD. 10560 words.
Published by PoMoCo Press on August 3, 2012. Fiction.
London has been besieged by strange powerful airships targeting the city's shipping. The poor starve and the rich must ration their luxuries, while the blockaders have made no demands. Parliament and the Home Office have done nothing to rectify the situation, and though it's hardly proper, sometimes a gentlewoman must act while the men debate.
A 10000 word steampunk novelette.
A Matter of Spirit: A Bartleby and James Adventure
by Michael Coorlim
Price: $1.99 USD. 9190 words.
Published by PoMoCo Press on April 9, 2012. Fiction.
Inventive genius James Wainwright has been retained to advocate for Bryce, an old friend, a con-man accused of kidnapping his partner, who maintains that she was spirited away by the shades of the dead.
James has little use for the fancies of spiritualism, but can he put his prejudices aside and clear Bryce's name, or will his old friend go to the gallows?
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