Genevieve Valentine, author of “The Finest Spectacle Anywhere” in BCS #68 and “Bread and Circuses” in BCS #55, both set in her steampunk Circus Tresaulti setting, has an interview in Locus (excerpted online here) about steampunk, circuses, her Circus Tresaulti novel Mechanique, and how she got into SF/F as a young reader.