Geoffrey Mandragora is the pen name for Brent Mehring. He is currently completing six years of rehab following a twenty-year addiction to historical re-enactment. His obsession with minute details of abandoned technologies and outmoded social behavior often leads to production hours lost to research, followed by long chapters of “I researched it, you have to read about it.” To which his editor replies, “Not necessarily.” Primarily a steampunk author, he also has two urban fantasy / police procedural novells in the “Los Diablos, California” series, “Werewolf in cheap clothing” and “Still Life.” He is currently working on an Urban fantasy / horror novel “Housekeeper.”