Reid Cook

Fantasy and Historical Adventure Writer

 
    Quick Fact
The St. Louis Writers
Guild was founded
in 1920, by
Sam Hellman,
Shirley Seifert,
Ralph Mooney,
Jay Gelzer,
William Brennan,
and Lenora McPheeters.

Happy 90th Anniversary!


          Quotes

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

- George Carlin

Courage is the resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

- Mark Twain

Welcome, join me on the roads
of my imagination, an oak-lined
lane that always leads to adventure.

        The Iron Horsemen

            A Steampunk Novel 

                by Reid Cook

                        

What is Steampunk?

It's Victorian What If. The great age of steam was filled with possibilities; it was the Victorian Age, the industrial revolution, and the basis of the modern world. Steampunk is an exploration of what might have been.

Pondering my favorite time of year

                                               The Iron Horsemen

                                                     by Reid Cook

 

The Iron Horsemen is the first in a series of Steampunk novels. The year is 1881, and Alexander reluctantly moved to Victorian London. Far from his home and friends in America, his father, a professor of ancient languages, makes him attend Eton College, a place he doesn't fit in. When a mysterious secret society kidnaps his father, Alexander teams with a baron's daughter and her little bronze dragon to save the world from the four Iron Horsemen.