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    Folio 3: Ready, Set, Capture
    Folio 3: Ready, Set, Capture
    Folio 3: Ready, Set, Capture
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    Folio 3: Ready, Set, Capture

    By N Ponders and Vivian St. Clair

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    Your smartphone, your digital camera, your friend and their professional DSLR – ever wonder how it all started? Follow Vivian and Elliot as they travel back in time in their Victorian space-time machine to meet one of the fathers of photography: Mr. Fox-Talbot. England and its mysteries await you in this next folio of the Steampunk Serials.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherN Ponders
    Release dateFeb 4, 2015
    ISBN9781311839602
    Folio 3: Ready, Set, Capture
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    N Ponders

    Born and bred with a love of language, N Ponders went on to get a Bachelor's degree in English and Linguistics.N Ponders lives with zer family. Ze spends zis free time--when it can be found--creating fantastical stories, learning languages, creating artwork in all forms, gardening, and spending time remodeling zer house in the Pacific Northwest of the United States of America. Ze is an avid gardener and wildcrafter. Zis favorite use for the internet is preserving herbal, and other, lore.Although ze has been writing since ze was a child, ze started the stories of The Caillte Cycle when in zer mid-teens, and has been writing sci-fi, fantasy, poetry and children's lit ever since.My pronouns are ze/zim/zer or they/them.

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      Folio 3 - N Ponders

      Steampunk Serials

      Folio, the third: Ready, Set, Capture

      By N Ponders and

      Vivian St. Clair

      This work is fictitious. Any resemblance to persons, characters or situations, real or imagined, is purely coincidental.

      Cover art and internal illustrations by N Ponders.

      © Copyright 2022 N Ponders

      All Rights Reserved.

      Electronic Edition

      No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without express written permission from the author, N Ponders. Reviewers may quote brief passages, with citation.

      Table of Contents

      Prologue ~ Explanation of What Follows

      Chapter 1 ~ Markeaton Hall

      Chapter 2 ~ Mr. Fox-Talbot

      Chapter 3 ~ Competition

      Chapter 4 ~ Experimentation

      Chapter 5 ~ Day’s End

      Chapter 6 ~ Continuation

      Chapter 7 ~ Dinner

      Resources

      About the Author

      Dedication

      This folio is dedicated to a wonderful girl, whose name is Dakota S.

      Prologue ~ Explanation of What Follows

      Hello. My name is Vivian St. Clair. I have a twin brother named Elliot. As this story begins, we are fifteen.

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