About this ebook
Occurrences series comes a steampunk novella to a legend from A Thousand
and One Arabian Nights.
Aladdin is a street-wise thief that
finds himself under the tutelage of a world-renown illusionist. He is
escorted deep into the deserts in search of a treasure beyond his
wildest dreams, and discovers instead something far more valuable—a
destiny.
About the author
Tee Morris began his writing career with his 2002 historical epic
fantasy, MOREVI The Chronicles of Rafe & Askana. Tee then released
in 2004 The Case of The Singing Sword: A Billibub Baddings Mystery which
was earned him honors from ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Awards.
It was in 2005 when his idea -- podcasting a novel -- established him
as a pioneer in the Social Media movement, becoming the first author to
podcast a book in its entirety. That experience led to the founding of
Podiobooks.com (with Evo Terra and Chris Miller), the premier site for
podcast literature.
Tee took his collaboration with Evo Terra to
print in Podcasting for Dummies (featuring Chuck Tomasi in the Second
Edition), and penned other social media titles including All a Twitter
(Que Publishing) and Sams Teach Yourself Twitter in 10 Minutes (Pearson
Education). Other non-fiction titles Tee has contributed to include
BenBella Books's Farscape Forever: Sex, Drugs, and Killer Muppets, the
Complete Guide to Writing fantasy series from Dragon Moon Press, and
BenBella Books' So Say We All: Collected Thoughts and Opinions of
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA.
In 2011 Tee Morris returned to his first
love -- fiction -- alongside his wife, Pip Ballantine, with Phoenix
Rising: A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences Novel (Harper Voyager). This
title went on to win the 2011 Airship Award for Best Steampunk
Literature, and was a finalist (the only steampunk to make the final
round in any category) for Goodread's Choice Awards under Best Science
Fiction of 2011. 2012 saw the release of The Janus Affair: A Ministry of
Peculiar Occurrences Novel (Harper Voyager). The sequel was also a
finalist in Goodreads' Choice Awards Best Science Fiction of 2012, and
went on to win Steampunk Chronicle's Readers Choice of 2012 for Best
Steampunk Literature. In 2013, their companion podcast Tales from the
Archives received a Parsec Award for Best Podcast Anthology. Also in
that year, Tee and Pip successfully funded via Kickstarter the anthology
Ministry Protocol: Thrilling Tales of the Ministry of Peculiar
Occurrences and The Ministry Initiative, a FATE-core RPG from Galileo
Games. 2014 will see the release of Dawn's Early Light: A Ministry of
Peculiar Occurrences Novel (Ace Books).
He can still be heard
podcasting short fiction with Tales from the Archives, and alongside Pip
on The Shared Desk at theshareddesk.com. Find out more about his work
and his life at teemorris.com and ministryofpeculiaroccurrences.com.
