Cindy Spencer Pape

Cindy Spencer Pape is an author of steampunk and paranormal romance, best known for The Gaslight Chronicles, a Victorian-set steampunk series that includes titles such as Steam & Sorcery, Cards & Caravans, and Dragons & Dirigibles. She has also written the contemporary paranormal Geek Love series and the fantasy-romance Heroes of Stone books. Pape's fiction combines historical Victorian settings with clockwork technology, magic, and romance, a defining formula of the steampunk romance subgenre that gained popularity in the early 2010s. With thirty-four titles across four series published over roughly two decades, she has maintained a steady career in independent and small-press romance publishing. Beyond her bibliography, further public biographical detail about the author is limited.