The Lochsmith series is set in the port city of Marenburg, an economic hub connecting trade routes across the World of the Winding Clock. Tall brick buildings rub shoulders with new factories on its ancient, narrow streets, and the burgeoning science of electricity is just beginning to work its way into daily life. Traveling north from there into Old Cinq, one would wander through farmland still tilled with oxen and towns where timeworn ways hold sway.

 

The juxtaposition of these lifestyles and the slow change an industrial revolution makes as its effects sprawl outward are some of the many things I enjoy exploring in my work, and which characterize the Winding Clock. Deep-rooted magic further colors the world, and builds into an anachronistic setting that I often liken to the three decades leading into World War I—a time of technological development alongside centuries-old tradition.