{"id":1422,"date":"2017-04-20T22:12:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T22:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/?p=1422"},"modified":"2017-04-20T22:23:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T22:23:13","slug":"contest-alert-the-velocipede-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/contest-alert-the-velocipede-races\/","title":{"rendered":"Contest Alert! : The Velocipede Races"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>If you like YA novels, bicycle fiction, strong characters, or just empowering books, you should check out The Velocipede Races\u00a0<\/em>by the rad Emily June Street<\/a>. Published around this time a year ago, Velo Races\u00a0<\/em>is\u00a0Microcosm’s first young adult novel… first steampunk novel… first feminist YA steampunk bicycle racing novel\u2014a lot of firsts, but featuring our good old fashioned theme of self-empowerment.<\/p>\n

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“<\/strong>This is what I am. I\u2019m a jockey. I ride velos. I ride velos as well as a man. If I stay quiet, if I keep it a secret, I\u2019m just being a coward. Don\u2019t you see how it is? Someone has to break the box. If I don\u2019t show them what I can do, if I pretend to be a man forever, the box isn\u2019t broken. But if I say, yes, I\u2019m a woman, and I did this thing that no one believed I could do, <\/i><\/strong>then I\u2019ve made room for someone else to do it, too. I have to make space where there is none, just like in a velocipede race.\u201d<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Praise for Velo Races has applauded the style and writing, and the bad-ass hero, Emmeline, including the cover blurb by steampunk queen Cherie Priest. Here’s some of its love:\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

“Street also does not glorify or fetishize Victorian women\u2019s fashion, as many steampunk stories do…I enjoyed getting to see a young woman using the development of her physical skills as her jumping off point to grow in her emotional life as an adult, and not solely the love of a good man.”\u00a0<\/em>http:\/\/www.paperdroids.com\/2016\/07\/05\/velocipede-versus-corset\/<\/a><\/p>\n

“This book weaves in the history of women and cycling into a fictional story about one girls journey into her emancipation. Not only is this the first novel that I’ve read that weaves in these themes, it also comes with many firsts: first steampunk novel, first YA steampunk feminist\/bicycle racing novel, and my first love into the work of Emily June Street.”\u00a0<\/em>http:\/\/citygirlrides.blogspot.fr\/2016\/02\/book-review-velocipede-races.html<\/a><\/p>\n

“Tense, thoughtful, and truly thrilling – The Velocipede Races is a marvelous fantasy of manners and machinery.”<\/em>\u00a0Cherie Priest, bestselling author of the Clockwork Century novels<\/p>\n

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If you haven’t gotten to pick one up yet, you can get always get a copy\u00a0from us<\/a>\u00a0or wherever books are sold, OR\u00a0enter to win ONE of FIFTY copies over on Goodreads<\/a>\u00a0from now till the end of the month. Happy reading!<\/p>\n

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