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Nick Valentino


Last Updated: 11/19/2009

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Gender: Male
Status: Married
Age: 104
Sign: Capricorn

Country: US
Signup Date: 9/8/2005

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Friday, December 18, 2009 
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Thursday, October 08, 2009 
Well, this is a pretty big moment for me. My steampunk adventure novel, Thomas Riley, is now available for pre-sale. I'm offering signed copies and best of all free shipping until October 23rd. If you like sky pirates, steam inventions, alchemy and high adventure this is totally for you. Get yours today.

Thomas Riley comes out on Echelon Press on October 23rd.

Order Here
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Friday, September 11, 2009 
My steampunk adventure novel Thomas Riley is coming out on Echelon Press on October 23rd.

In mean time, check out the new website for the book www.sirthomasriley.com

And for you daring types that like to get free stuff, and enter contests for even more free stuff, sign up to be a Sky Pirate here http://www.sirthomasriley.com/recruiting-sky-pirates/

None of this is spam, promise.
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Friday, April 17, 2009 
I have a new blog I wanted to share with you.
http://nickvalentino.blogspot.com/
It going to be about different aspects of writing as well as some general observations about the world, pop culture or whatever inspires me. I have 2 new blogs up so stop by, follow it if you enjoy what you are reading and make a comment if you feel so inclined.
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Friday, April 10, 2009 





With my first published novel, Thomas Riley in the works, Echelon Press Publishing asked me to do a blog on Steampunk fashion. This is part of "fashion week" at Teen Seen. Now don't be scared of the word teen. Check it out and if you are a blogger or have a Google account, drop a comment and let me know what you think. Enjoy!

Steampunk Fashion






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Thursday, April 02, 2009 
Off I go this weekend to sunny Naples Florida for the Naples Writers Conference. Here I will be hanging at an art museum for two days listening to plot tips, structure analysis and all types of geeky yet informative information from succeessful authors. I will be meeting Linnea Sinclair which I am really excited about. She writes Science Fiction Romance, check her out here. If anyone else is attending, let me know, we will meet up!
~Nick
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009 
This weekend (Friday Feb 13-Feb 16) I will be attending the Southern California Writers Conference in San Diego California. I have never been before, so if anyone has some insight on what it is like, please let me know. Also, if you are going to attend, let me know as well, we will go out for a pint and pour over our respective works.
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Tuesday, August 05, 2008 

I love to have artists do scenes from Fallon in their own style. I recently discovered Daniele Serra here on Myspace. His art is absolutely amazing. Check his site out HERE. I asked him if he could do a poster for the book and he agreed! Here is another scene from Fallon by Daniele Serra. Thanks Dani!

 

 

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Tuesday, June 24, 2008 

Current mood:  excited

Hey all! I have no idea how I ended up here, but it is an honor to be on this list. Please vote for me in this local poll. I am 19 "Nick Valentino"

Thanks!!! Oh, you can vote once a day if you like. Much love!

Vote Here

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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 
I wasn't going to post this here, but I neglect this site way too much. So I will share the secret lowdown with you as well.

I went to Evansville Indiana to do some research for the trilogy. I am anywhere from 3-5 chapters away from being done with the first book, "Fallon", and the end of that book takes place in Evansville. The second book, "The Adversary", which is about half written almost exclusively takes place in Evansville. Also a satallite novella, (Which is done, but needs to be edited) "A Weapon Ripens" happens in Evansville as well. This one happens in a small time gap between the first and second full novels.

The greatest and strangest thing about the trip was that everything seemed to just be laid out for me. It was easy, and everything I was looking for, I found! Evansvillians are the nicest people I have ever met, so it was really great when I needed direction. I took 124 pictures and 6 pages of hand written notes. I will only bore you with a few. Here is the breakdown:

This is the Willard Library. Famously haunted by "The Grey Lady". The story goes that she was pissed when they sold her father's house without her permission and she hangs around there out of anger. I spent about an hour and a half there, taking pictures and notes.


This is the actual place where Fallon will encounter The Grey Lady. Fallon has the ability to speak with such beings and in some cases, she can use them. She will be standing about where this picture was taken.


This is fun! Here is a screen capture of me taking notes in the upstairs of the Library. They have a live web cam so people can look for the ghost.


This is the very weird Tuberculosis Clinic hidden on the outskirts of Evansville. This place is weird. It is very big, as you can see and they are doing some massive construction on the inside. I have no idea who would want to live or work there. I took pictures through the windows and under the door (which has a huge chunk out of it.) The downstairs are completely spooky. The walls are covered with a tan tile. (I imagine for easy cleaning...ew.) It is strange that many many people died in this building. Anyway, as Fallon discovers that she can actually capture ghosts, goes here in search of more "recruits". This is also where she begins to develop a kind of prejudice against them.


Here is the shot I took from under the door. You can see the "sanitary" tile on the right side, that extends throughout the downstairs.


This next shot may go in Fallon, if I have room in the story. This is a graveyard which also makes an appearance in "A Weapn Ripens", but Fallon will go here and dsicover this little patch which personally really made me feel weird as I walked around in it. This entire patch is for newborn children or kids that were under a year old when they died. Emotionally, Fallon fluctuates between a human side and something much grander. While walking around these graves, I don't know if it as just the magnitude of what was under me or what, but the area felt constricting. Like my blood pressure was going up or something. I just felt weird, like something was pressing down on me. To add to the creepy factor, there are light windchimes in that little tree.


Speaking of how creepy this all was, here is a hand made cement cross. It has a crudly hand carved message in it, which indicates that these people didnt have a very much money. This was really really sad. It reads: "Died Jan 1933- Infant Daughter- of Mr Mrs WC Marx" Can you imagine writing these words in a wet block of cement? Pretty powerful stuff there...


This next shot is going shows up in the novella "A Weapon Ripens". This is the Ohio River where Brody strolls in search of answers to what has happened to him. He runs into two entities here that guide him on a violent path.


This also takes place in "A Weapon Ripens". That story is already written and I seriously just happened to encounter this out of nowhere. (That was kind of the odd theme to the entire trip.) While it just looks like a patch of woods to you, everything about this area was almost a carbon copy of the part of the story that is already done. Everything from the hill above it, to the trees, to the little playground not pictured here. Here Brody commits his first "unintentional" act of murder.


That is it for now. There are 116 more pictures, but I thought this would be enough to get an idea.
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