Rentsoc Book 1: The Wizard, The Pirate, and The Steampunk Librarian by Scott Coon
A wildly whimsical, laugh-out-loud swashbuckling adventure with deadly dragons, mysterious fog, magical yarn, unexpected libraries, and mercows…which are mermaid-cows, of course.
The Story…
The Steampunks need a wizard to quest for a new burning dragon bone to power the Master Furnace that runs all their contraptions through a network of leaky steam hoses. This heroic wizard will voyage stormy seas, brave poison fog, battle wild dragons, and face the Steampunks’ mortal enemy and masters of yarn magic, the Crochets.
Mitch the Adequate is NOT that wizard. He is sent from his home on Tahar the Jellyfish to merely collect this information. But Steampunk Librarian Pearl has evidence that the dragons and fog are harmless, and that the hero who captured their first bone was a fraud. She wants to prove it by retrieving a bone with Mitch’s help. Mitch is unsure of her claims but also eager to escape his dead-end job. They secure the help of Captain Fanny and her clockwork sailing ship to voyage to Teta the Otter to find the truth about the dragons and fog. Meanwhile, NONE of their bosses are okay with ANY of this.
Will their supervisors stop them? Will Captain Fanny secure a better life for her landlubber brother? What is Steampunk Librarian Pearl hiding in her steamer trunk? Will Mitch ever control his sneeze teleporting? Find out in Rentsoc Book 1: The Wizard, The Pirate, and The Steampunk Librarian!
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Author Bio:
Scott Coon is a former U.S. Army Intelligence Analyst, an award-winning short story writer, author of the novel GODLESS ARMAGEDDON published by Hypatia Press in 2024, and of LOST HELIX published by Dancing Lemur Press in 2020. His latest novel is the beginning of a series, Rentsoc Book 1: The Wizard, The Pirate, & The Steampunk Librarian, a comedy.
His work can be found in Dark Horses Magazine, Bewildering Stories, MOBIUS: The Journal for Social Change, and The STEAM Journal at Claremont University amongst others. His stories are also featured in the anthologies ALIEN GAZE and IT CAME FROM HER PURSE. See his website and YouTube Channel for his advice on the art and business of writing, as well as his published works.