Trapped in a house… the author challenges her readers to try blowing teapots, promising her own version in return if someone sends video. One brave soul calls her out. We’ve seen it on the internet: Teapot Blowing. Now Anne presents her own attempt. ...
https://www.annerenwick.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/003Greekandlatin.mp3 Where do all those strange words come from? Anne Renwick discusses how she often uses Greek and Latin roots to name her various contraptions. SHOW NOTES A Book About Nicholas and Alexandria...
https://www.annerenwick.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/002Bioluminescencewebsite.mp3 Anne Renwick discusses bioluminescence (with a brief detour to fluorescence), her hands-on experience with it, and how it illuminates the dark nights in The Elemental Steampunk World....
An Origin Story Supplemental Video A bonus video using a teaching skeleton to show the anatomical locations of the skeletal features discussed in An Origin Story. Listen to the podcast...
This was my third year in a row at Key City Steampunk Festival – and the third time Briax, Judy and Kat (with her daughter) stopped by 🙂 But it was the first year Briax decided to mess with me. Last year, Simon the Laboratory Mouse, packed his bags and headed...
https://www.annerenwick.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/001Origin.mp3 Anne Renwick discusses the original opening for THE GOLDEN SPIDER, taking you behind the scenes for a glimpse of her Gross Anatomy experience and what crept into her first book. SHOW NOTES Femur...
Overhead, a dark shadow passed—a hungry pteryform soaring toward the Thames, ready to fish out a kraken or two for breakfast, their preference for the cephalopods the only reason the city council did not launch an armed force to terminate their presence in the...
Meet the author’s pets. Darwin. At age 15, he’s the old man in this crowd. Adopted in Savannah, GA, he was the sweetest kitten: sitting on my lap, purring, purring, purring. Gray and white, he reminded me of all the photos of Charles Darwin...
We took the City Sightseeing Glasgow Open Top Bus Tour on our first full day in Scotland. It was cold and drizzling, as we’d expected, but that didn’t keep us from climbing to the open top to view the city. Plug in your earphones to a handy jack, and the...
Stories of ancient wells and springs have long captured my attention, so when a rogue frog on the loose in a small village of Wales became the focus of A Trace of Copper, I seized upon the opportunity to include one in my story. Where better for such a creature to...