For today, Gentle Reader, here are some fun tidbits of insight into my personality. Or at least I hope it’s fun… Would try once: Exotic food No thanks: Team sports Too much in my life: Email Not enough: Cherries Fear conquered: Public speaking Not quite there yet: Public restrooms Risky when it comes to: Heights […]
Pros and Cons of Life… Gail Carriger Style
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 […]
The Business of Being an Author on the Move
Right now, Gentle Reader, my life is full of writing business (as opposed to writing itself). Thank goodness I got so much done at the Super Secret Retreat of Doom! I’m staring down the barrel of a whole lot of travel: Tuscon Festival back-to-back with a week long book tour, then 5 days home before […]
Sophronia’s Moors in the Finishing School Series
While I was in England I trotted down to Devon to visit my family and childhood stomping grounds but also to rove about Dartmoor. As you know, Gentle Reader, the Finishing School books partly take place in Dartmoor. (Or should I say: floating above it?) I thought you would like to see what the moor […]
Gail’s 10 Travel Commandments
Soon, Gentle Reader, I am off again. This time to Mesa, AZ. I’ll post my convention schedule on Wednesday. That way it will be up while I am gone, in case you can swing by and say hello. It feels like I have been traveling a lot recently, and this was supposed to be a […]
Gail’s Travel Essentials: Shopping List for the Author on the Go
You know, Gentle Reader, how much I travel, and how into the efficiency of it I am, right? I might even be called obsessed. I was recently on Amazon, investing in yet more travel essentials, and I decided to concoct a list. And then, I thought, well if I’m making a list I might as […]
Gail’s 11 Most Memorable Meals of All Time & Place
As you may or may not have sussed, Gentle Reader, I travel a lot. I travel to conventions and signings, to festivals and book fairs, to lands far away and right next door. I have blogged about packing and surviving constant travel, and I have utilized skills learned as an itinerant archaeologist far more than […]
More On Packing: This Time Clothing
Continuing on with my run on packing, we are finally on my favorite part, Gentle Reader, the clothing! Shoes Generally I don’t believe in adding weight except when strictly necessary but shoes are the exception. They are also a bit difficult as I do think shoes need to go into bags or pockets, unless they […]
How to Master Modular Packing AKA Kits!
The AB says I could have a whole blog on packing and traveling tips. But if you asked me what my top tip was, I’d say modular packing. In addition to all the pockets in various suitcases, I’m a believer in keeping everything as modular as possible. I picked up two sets of clear with […]
7 Steampunk-ish Things In France
It’s hard for me to turn the steampunk hunting instincts off, Gentle Reader. I’m like a truffle pig in this particular matter. Snuffle snuffle snort . . . steampunk! I thought there would be a more propitiatory connection to early flight, all my research suggests the French were once particularly enamored of floating about full […]
Why Doesn’t Gail Visit ME?
Come visit me Gail! I have tea and custard! You like custard? Please please please? First of all, Gentle Reader, it’s so very kind of you to think of me and to want to see me in person. I would, I promise, genuinely love to meet all of you. I adore my readers and have […]
Las Vegas Report!
I do apologize, Gentle Reader, but copy edits on Curtsies & Conspiracies (Finishing School Book the Second) have eaten my noggin. I have the brain worms! By they are very stylish brain worms. And I’ve handed her in. Book #10, in the bag. You’ll never guess what I did over the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend? Well, […]