After a great deal of fretting and paper pushing, emails and crisis coping, countless cups of tea and likely too much chocolate I present unto you, Gentle Reader…. POISON OR PROTECT A Delightfully Deadly Novella Where to buy? Amazon Barnes & Noble iBooks Kobo What’s this book about? Can one gentle Highland soldier woo […]
Jun212016
Poison or Protect, Gail Carriger’s First Novella, On Sale Today (Delightfully Deadly)
Jun202016
Poison or Protect On Sale Tomorrow : Squee! (Delightfully Deadly)
Poison or Protect is on sale tomorrow! Cue Gail crazy running around flapping arms in a hyperventilating kind of way. Oh wait, that’s not dignified. I’m sitting drinking tea. Calmly. Oh so calmly. I’m hoping it drops out everywhere it is supposed to. This is the cross my fingers that I have done everything I […]
Jun132016
What’s Inside the New Gail Carriger Novellas?
I ran a bit of an AMA on the novellas a little while ago, here are answers to your questions, Gentle Reader! And if they spark more questions, please, ask away. Are these novellas more on the young adult or the adult side of the spectrum? Adult. Specifically romance. I love reading romance and I […]
Jun82016
How to Get the New Gail Carriger Self Published Books? (Occasional FAQ)
Fun questions from you, Gentle Reader, have resulted in this blog post. How do I get one? One of my reasons for going hybrid is to make these stories as widely available as possible. I’m shooting for most platforms except Google Play. I’m distributing via a combination of Amazon and Draft2Digital (which pushes out to […]
Jun12016
Cover Art Reveal: Poison or Protect (Delightfully Deadly)
Gentle Reader, I am DELIGHTED to finally show you the long awaited cover for my first self published novella… POISON OR PROTECT A Delightfully Deadly Novella By Gail Carriger Out June 21, 2016! Chirrup subscribers got an early look and some of you have already seen it on Amazon, but here it is in […]
May162016
Amazon Woes: Novella Release Update
So I’ve been trying to update my short stories (I’ve 4 of them) with new cover art and cleaned up interior content (working links, typos fixed, nicer lay out, that kind of thing). Unfortunately Amazon decided to flag me for copyright infringement… On myself…. ??????????????????????? Multiple personality disorder much? I might have thrown a bit […]
May62016
Gail’s Future: Your Questions Answered: Coloring Books & Lord Akeldama
So I was having a bit of a brain fart recently, Gentle Reader, and couldn’t think of anything exciting to blog about that you’d want to know, so I did a spontaneous AMA. Thanks to everyone who (equally spontaneously) participated. Ever thought about a parasol protectorate adult coloring book? It’s a bit complicated rights-wise, but […]
Feb42015
Character Story Poll Results: Which Side Character Would You Like to Star in their Own Story?
At the beginning of the month, I asked you, Gentle Reader, which side character you would like to see star in their own story. Fascinating results my dear Gentle Reader, absolutely fascinating. Blogspot’s percentages are all over the place (likely because people could vote from more than one character at a time). Livejournal is a […]
Apr112014
National Poetry Month… Dimity Style
Gentle Reader, April is National Poetry Month. As you may have guessed from my work I have a contentious relationship with poetry. Part of this has to do with my misspent youth. Some youths misspent their energy on crazy parties, doughnutting, cow tipping, you know. I wrote poetry. I am ashamed. Nevertheless, here is my […]
Aug62013
25+ Tips for Researching a Victorian Setting (Steampunk & beyond)
Good morning, Gentle Reader, some tips for the writers amongst you today! How to research a Victorian setting for fiction authors – Steampunk, Historical Romance & Beyond In this post I offer tips for online, book, and other sources for researching a Victorian-set novel. Including tips you’ve not read elsewhere. 25+ Tips for Researching a […]
Jul162013
4 Common Questions on Categorizing the Parasolverse Books
1. How would you describe the Parasol Protectorate series for those who don’t know about it yet? Imagine Jane Austen dabbling in science and steam technology. Then imagine P.G. Wodehouse suddenly dropped vampires into the Drones Club. The Parasol Protectorate books are the resulting progeny. They begin with a soulless spinster confronting Queen Victoria’s grumpy […]
Apr192012
Gail Carriger Swans Around Nottingham
I was at school at Nottingham Uni over a decade ago. I lived in the international dorm on the MBA campus for a little under two years working on my MSc (an MS for us USA folk) in Archaeological Materials. Returning gave me an inexplicable feeling of warmth. I’d missed the old city. This was […]