How Smoke Got Out of the Chimneys

How Smoke Got Out of the Chimneys

by DeAnna Knippling
How Smoke Got Out of the Chimneys

How Smoke Got Out of the Chimneys

by DeAnna Knippling

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Overview

London, England. 1840.

Gangs of four- and five-year-old orphans are being used as "apprentice" chimney sweeps--they're the only ones who can fit down the narrow chimneys, taking brushes and baskets down with them into upper-class Victorian homes to scrape out the creosote. 

It's good for 'em, don'tcher know?

Caroline, a.k.a. the infamous Smoke, is one of the older orphans, who help lift and lower the smaller ones, handle the customers, and keep the gang runner, Hasty Wallace, from flying off the handle.  But rumor is, it's time to shuffle the sixteen-year-old orphan off to other business ventures.  Ones with mattresses.  Lots of mattresses.  If it were up to Hasty (and it is), Caroline will disappear into a brothel in Whitechapel...or a ditch.  Honestly, he doesn't care which.

It's time for Caroline to get out of the chimney business.  And maybe it's time that Hasty Wallace learned a thing or two about orphans...


Product Details

BN ID: 2940153538679
Publisher: Wonderland Press
Publication date: 11/23/2016
Series: Smoke , #1
Sold by: Draft2Digital
Format: eBook
File size: 883 KB

About the Author

Every summer as kids, we would host one group of cousins or another and jump off hay bales, create mazes by crawling the patterns through the tall grass, and steal green apples out of the garden. We also branded calves, killed chickens, and stole steak knives to threaten skunks with. But that's growing up on a farm for you.

Now I write fantasy, science fiction, and horror--and most of it comes from the worlds that I created as a farm kid, one way or another.

My first novel, Choose Your Doom: Zombie Apocalypse, was published by Doom Press in 2010 and can be purchased through Meta Geek.

"This is how I like my zombies: fast and funny. Choose this book, and you won't be choosing your doom. You'll be choosing hours of gooey, gory hilarity."
- Steve Hockensmith, New York Times best-selling author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls

My short story, “The End of the World,” about fairies on the Great Plains, received an honorable mention in Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 3.

I also write murder-mystery party games for Freeform Games in the UK.

See my website and blog at deannaknippling.com.

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