Murder in the WayBelow on Patreon
Hello my lovely followers! I don’t know if you’re aware, but I have a Patreon where I post short stories and serialised novels (and other things!). I write Holmes/Watson inspired fiction, stories prompted by tarot decks, vampire and werewolf fiction, and even the occasional poem (not often, promise!).
If you’ve liked my work in the past, and that sounds like your jam, I’d love for you to take a look at my Patreon and I’d love it even more if you choose to support me there! Every new Patron helps me to write more fiction (and rely less on the day job!).
To help tempt you to the Fic Side, I’ve made the first three chapters of my new serialised novel, Murder in the WayBelow, free for everyone to read.
Murder in the WayBelow is set in my ‘Cog and Bone’ Universe – a steampunk-ish future SF series where a fleet of colony ships, populated by humans and sentient androids, is over 800 years away from an abandoned Earth. The novel begins with the gruesome death of unethical scientist, Victor Frankenstein, in the unruly and cobbled-together lowest of the lower decks of The Londinium; the ship’s version of the Rookeries of Victorian London. The Londinium’s police force, the Yardarm, is inclined to pin the murder on the impoverished and frequently undocumented people (both Cog and Bone) of the WayBelow. That is, unless consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and her new flatmate and colleague, W4t50n, who runs the Clockwork Morgue, can find the true killer.
Along with Sherlock and W4t50n, Murder in the WayBelow includes droid and human characters both original and drawn from period fiction, including the perennially young robot-boy P3t3r and his gang of cast aside child androids, the ship’s Bosun, who has been serving the Admiralty for over 800 years but is neither human nor ‘droid; and an equally venerable droid going by the name of Hyp4t14, who oversees the unauthorised Night Library.
If that whets your appetite, you can become part of my beloved Patreon posse starting at the Melbourne Coffee tier ($3/month) and get a new chapter monthly. You’ll also get access to around 300 previous posts of fiction and blog posts.
You can also choose higher tiers, like Bite Club, Fan Mail and World Tour, with new posts and rewards at each level, up to getting an annual gift of goodies hand-made by me!
Make my day by coming to take a look, and make my year by joining the gang! And of course you can cancel any time if your circumstances change or it turns out to be Not Your Thing.
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Cheers! Narrelle M Harris (AKA 221b-hound)























