Emperor’s Edge

Emperor’s Edge by Lindsay Buroker is a series of steampunk novels set in the 19th century. Buroker the author has held a variety of jobs from soldier in the American Army, network administrator, fast food flinger to lifeguard. For seven years between 2004 and 2011, she was an affiliate marketer and blogger. For many people, this is a dream job but reviewing the latest vacuum cleaners or child car seats was not something she enjoyed doing. Lindsay always wanted to tell stories and knew that her destiny was to become an author. While doing her many jobs, she had been writing manuscripts and had several on her home computer. The ones she loved best were those that would finally become the Emperor’s Edge series. It was not long before she finished “The Emperor’s Edge” the first novel of the series but she did not think it was good enough to publish. Moreover, the idea of pitching the novel to tons of agents was not in the least exciting. Buroker then completed the novel “Encrypted,” which she thought would sell better than the Empire Edge series. But it turned out to be huge failure as it morphed into high fantasy science fiction combo that agents rejected since it did not fit neatly in any genre. It was neither a high fantasy, steampunk or cross genre novel, and no one would touch it.