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Ankaret Wells

Ankaret Wells

Science fiction, fantasy and steampunk writer

  • About
  • FAQ
    • Reading Order
  • Firebrand
  • The Maker’s Mask
  • The Hawkwood War
  • Heavy Ice
  • The Dykosm
    • Kingsblood
      • The Duke Is Dead
  • Family Trees
  • Free Reads
    • Death and the Order
    • Deleted scene: Kallisty and her bandits
    • Deleted scene: Ligeia meets Mukhtar Prime
    • Deleted scenes: Tzenni explains the Feud
    • Out Of The Spire
    • According To Harriet
  • Contact Ankaret

Ankaret Wells

Welcome!

I write science fiction, fantasy, romance and steampunk, often all at the same time. My feminist steampunk romance novel Firebrand was a 2012 Tiptree Honor Book. Here on this blog I talk about writing, self-publishing and other stuff that occurs to me.

Got something to say? Email me on ankaretwells@gmail.com.

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About the books
Extract from The Maker's Mask: Book One Of Requite
Extract from The Hawkwood War: Book Two Of Requite
Extract from Firebrand
The Requite Trailer
FAQ
Original welcome post and statement on self-publishing

Heavy Ice

Heavy Ice

Buy Heavy Ice now!

in .epub from Lulu
in paperback from Lulu
in .mobi from Amazon.co.uk
in paperback from Amazon.co.uk
in .mobi from Amazon.com
in paperback from Amazon.com

Firebrand

Firebrand cover

Buy Firebrand now!

.epub from Lulu
.mobi from Amazon.co.uk
.mobi from Amazon.com
Paperback from Lulu
Paperback from amazon.co.uk
Paperback from amazon.com

The Maker’s Mask

Image made with stock art from istockphoto.com

Buy The Maker’s Mask: Book One Of Requite now!

.epub from Lulu
In paperback or PDF file download from Lulu
From the Amazon Kindle Store
In paperback from Amazon.co.uk
In paperback from amazon.com

The Hawkwood War

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Buy The Hawkwood War: Book Two Of Requite now!

.epub from Lulu
In paperback or PDF file download from Lulu
From the Amazon Kindle Store
In paperback from amazon.co.uk
In paperback from Amazon.com

Free Reads

Read an excerpt from Firebrand, my steampunk fantasy romance inspired by Charlotte Bronte's juvenilia.

Read an excerpt from The Maker's Mask, the first part of my Requite Duology, a science fiction adventure.

Read an excerpt from The Hawkwood War, the second part of my Requite Duology, a science fiction adventure.

Go here for out-takes and Requite short stories, free to read online.

Recent Posts

  • Anna Chronistic is coming!
  • News!
  • A snippet from The Duke Is Dead, coming this summer from me and Irene Headley:
  • 2019 – The Year Of Finishing Books
  • I aten’t dead!

Top Posts

  • Palatino Linotype is not Palatino...
  • Planetary romance

Twitter

  • @aellairene Stylish, enthusiastic, kind multidimensional being. Soft but mighty. Loves travel, food, alternate univ… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 4 hours ago
  • @aellairene I think any monarch, with the low bar of 'any monarch who didn't actually do anything worse for public… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 11 hours ago
  • @larilille Is the A for Alecto? 2 days ago
  • @Hazel_DNI Over here @pmh just finished his and is about to get into the cranachan. 2 days ago
  • It's completely not the nurse's fault that they can't tell that I am low-key hyperventilating. @pmh often can't tel… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 2 days ago

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  • October 2015
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  • December 2012
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  • January 2012
  • December 2011
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  • August 2011
  • July 2011
  • June 2011
  • May 2011
  • April 2011
  • March 2011
  • February 2011
  • January 2011
  • December 2010
  • November 2010
  • October 2010
  • September 2010
  • August 2010
  • July 2010

Blogroll

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  • Crinoline Robot
  • Jasmine Aherne
  • Knitting up the ravelled sleeve of care
  • Now and Rome
  • One Wheel, No Brain
  • Ros's Romance Reviews

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Month: October 2010

And if you didn’t win but would like to try the books anyway…

This was going to be a ‘Hooray, Lulu are now allowing their writers to set their own discounts! Have 25% off the list price, to encourage you to buy the book even if you didn’t win it!’ post. The good news is, there are indeed discounts! The Maker’s Mask: Book One Of Requite in paperback […]

Read More And if you didn’t win but would like to try the books anyway…

And the free book goes to…

The random number generator has spoken, and the book is going to commenter #12, the_antichris! Please email me on ankaretwells at gmail dot com with your address. 🙂 Thank you very much to everyone who entered!

Read More And the free book goes to…

More on the giveaway, and my thoughts on WordPress

I will make the draw (and when I say ‘make the draw’ I say ‘run the random number software’, though I have to say it’d be easier if I had a number of entries that matched one of the multi-sided dice in the sitting room) for the free copy of The Maker’s Mask on Friday […]

Read More More on the giveaway, and my thoughts on WordPress

Giveaway! Win a copy of The Maker’s Mask

These books are going off to the legal deposit library: But this book is going to someone picked at random from the comments to this post. The beads aren’t going anywhere, I just hadn’t noticed they were on the table and then I thought they looked pretty. So, leave a comment if you want a […]

Read More Giveaway! Win a copy of The Maker’s Mask

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