The Great Parasolverse read along continues with Heartless, my play on a cozy mystery. What, you didn’t think that’s what was going on?
Heartless released in July of 2011.
Here are some fun blog posts and resources that tie to this book. Research, chattering, and amusement on the subject of Sherlock, burning down Victorian London, getting clumsy comedy out of unsuspecting pregnant friends, and other good times.
Will Alexia manage to determine who is trying to kill Queen Victoria before it is too late? Is it the vampires again or is there a traitor lurking about in wolf’s clothing? And what, exactly, has taken up residence in Lord Akeldama’s second best closet?
Heartless was a New York Times, Locus, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Barnes & Noble/B. Dalton; made Locus Recommended Reading list (2011) and Locus Poll for Best Fantasy Novel #14 (2012); and was nominated for the Prix des Imaginales (2011).
Heartless also got the highest of any of my books in the mass market lists (#11).
Things Pertaining to This Book
- Victorian Pregnancy Research
- In Which Gail Provides a List of Silly UK Place Names . . . Because She Can
- Technological Change in Steampunk Worldbuilding
- Dustave Doré & Victorian London’s Suburbs
- Authorial Research for Heartless (Behind the Magic)
- Heartless Research and Other Mysteries of Clark Kenting
- How Does the Peerage Work in the Parasolverse?
- In Which Gail Must Look Up 7 Strange Things for Heartless
- The Range of Cover Art in Heartless
- Blog posts specific to Heartless
All About Vampires!
- Victorian Slang for Lord Akeldama
- Countess Nadasdy character design board and Character Study blog post
- Westminster hive design board
- The countess and her hive reappear in Romancing the Inventor
I hope you enjoy the great purple beasty!
Yours (rarely in purple),
Miss Gail
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The 5th Gender (A Tinkered Stars Mystery as G. L. Carriger).
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Sci-fi queer romance meets cozy mystery in which a hot space station cop meets the most adorable purple alien ever (lavender, pulease!) from a race with 5 genders.
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