Dear Gentle Reader, for your amusement here are some deleted scenes from Prudence. SPOILER ALERT if you haven’t yet read it. Since this series is currently being written, please be aware that deleted scenes may and often do contain spoilers for this series AND both other series (since this is chronologically last). Read at your own […]
Feb32016
7 Deleted Scenes for Gail Carriger’s Prudence
Feb12016
Inspiration, Disinfectant Sunflowers & Praise for Gail Carriger’s Prudence
“…author of some of the most pronounced and widely-read tripe ever put on the market.” ~ P.G. Wodehouse Here’s some background fun bits and bobs for you, to celebrate the release… On Disinfectant Sunflowers “The Value of the sunflower as a disinfectant of the atmosphere has been well ascertained, but it seems not yet to […]
Jan292016
Gail Carriger Fantasy Casts Custard Protocol the Movie
Hello, dear Gentle Reader. Today I am fantasy casting the crew of the Spotted Custard for you! One of the questions I often get is how I might dream cast my books. It’s a fun mental exercise, although I’m not married to any casting and pretty open to other people’s thoughts. You can check my […]
Jan252016
Victorian Money Means Coins! Research Behind Steampunk
This is one of those blog posts in which I demonstrate the nitty-gritty of research in an aggravatingly nit-picky way. This is an amended reboot from 2012 when I first started writing Prudence. Read at your own risk. To protect the guilty I’m not going to name any names, Gentle Reader, and I’d like to state […]
Aug32015
Vampires & Werewolves: Around the World in 8 Absurdities
Little article for you today, Gentle reader… Vampires & Werewolves: Around the World in 8 Absurdities Since I write comedy and alternate history, I spend a good deal of time investigating historical quirks. One of my favorite things to do is take vampires and werewolves and make them responsible for the most unexplainable facts and […]
Jun122015
Custard Protocol Easter Eggs: Prudence Deleted Scenes (Special Extras)
So here are 2 deleted scenes from Prudence the first Custard Protocol book, for your amusement. Deleted Scenes from Prudence Since this series is currently being written, please be aware that deleted scenes may and often do contain spoilers for this series AND both other series (since this is chronologically last). Read at your own risk. Dama […]
Apr62015
Custard Protocol Extras: Fun Research Tidbits for Prudence
While I was writing Prudence, I collected some fun and key images for significant scenes. Here are a few that I thought you might enjoy, Gentle Reader. via Saladin Ahmed on Twitter (@saladinahmed) Now you can look out for them as you read… and some quotes, because I’m honored by the warm reception this […]
Mar272015
Prudence Extras 1890s India Research
Gentle Reader, is some insight into the research behind Prudence’s first fateful adventure. While I was writing this first installment in the Custard Protocol series, I did a lot of research and jotted down a number of things about India in 1895 that didn’t make it into the book. I also collected some fun […]
Mar232015
Primrose’s Packing List for Fashionable Victorian Dirigible Travel
One of my favorite early scenes of the Custard Protocol series in Prudence is when Primrose and all her trunks come on board the Spotted Custard. If was fun to write and it was really fun to research. I adore books about how people traveled in the past, possibly because I do so much traveling […]
Mar92015
6 Questions About Prudence and the Custard Protocol Series: Answered
A few common questions, Gentle Reader, that I am asked about the Custard Protocol series. 1. Is this series Adult or YA? These books are more like the Parasol Protectorate series: written with an adult audience in mind. Now, that doesn’t mean younger readers won’t like them, just that the protagonist is 20, the language […]
Mar62015
Anglicization: In Which We Revisit the Ladybird Problem
My dear Gentle Reader, This is not a topic I get asked about much anymore but just in case I’m hit with a number of the Very Curious after reading a Parasolverse book, I am going to address a delicate subject here and now… Anglicization or should I say? Anglicisation Right, so you may or […]
Nov242014
Amazon & Hachette find Prudence at Last
Amazon and Hachette have resolved their dispute. I am no longer in #Amazonjail. This means my books should, once again, be available to ship via Prime and up for pre-order. We will be running the test with Prudence, I suppose. And then Manners & Mutiny in a year (not yet up for pre-order, I haven’t […]