Welcome Adventurers! Today I
have a special treat for you. I have guest blogger and fellow author
Sophronia Belle Lyon. Creator of the Alexander Legacy Series.
Tell
my adventurers the name of your book and about the world you created.
I have a
series of books, the Alexander Legacy, with three books out so far. A
Dodge, a Twist, and a Tobacconist, The Pinocchio Factor, and The Most
Dangerous Game.
The
stories are about mostly well-known characters in 1800s novels,
brought together to fight human trafficking and the rise of a slave
empire to overthrow the social order. Each one is narrated by a
member of the Legacy Company. 1 is Florizel of Bohemia, from the New
Arabian Knights
by Robert Louis Stevenson. 2 is Oliver Twist from Charles Dickens,
and 3 is Sluefoot Sue, wife of Pecos Bill from the stories by Edward
S. O'Reilly. The company has eight members altogether, led by Phoebe
Moore Campbell of Louisa May Alcott’s Eight
Cousins
and Rose
in Bloom
books. Fun See, also from those stories, is another member, as well
as Mowgli from Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle
Book,
Edward Ferrars from Sense
and Sensibility
by Jane Austen, and last of all Zambo from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s
The
Lost World. They
have so far dealt with criminals in London and Switzerland, other
denizens of Victorian classics, and faced mad geniuses, automatons,
shape-shifters, pirates, and mechanicals of all kinds.
What
inspired you to write about these characters?
I
saw The
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
movie and was inspired to create my own cast of Alt-Victorian
adventurers. Instead of the usual Steampunk focus on feminism, class
warfare, magic, and mixed morality, I have tried to focus on faith,
family, friendship and showing courage, self-sacrifice, and working
together across all classes of people, but with a focus on love for
God and others, and doing what is right.
How
long has this character been in your thoughts?
I
saw the movie in 2003 but I have loved and devoured Victorian
adventures long before that, and loved imagining what these
characters would do in their futures.
What
is the one trait you wished you shared with your main character?
I wish I
had their courage and resolve to do right no matter what the cost.
Some of the members have already found the cost to be heavy.
A Dodge, a
Twist, and a Tobacconist is free as the first in the series.
And here is
the link to the series
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