I have for you a blog about . . . What else Gentle Reader? And now, 14 interesting things about tea in Victorian times . . . Tea!! 1 There were folding tea tables that had specified area for each tea cup and saucer with a central part for the service. 2 Speaking of the […]
Feb92012
14 Facts You May Not Know About Tea in the Victorian Era (from Gail Carriger)
Aug252011
Cover Launch: Parasol Protectorate Omnibus Vol 1. (Soulless, Changeless, Blameless)
SF Book Club’s Parasol Protectorate Omnibus Edition. In case you missed it buried in the con report last entry, the SF Book Club will be bringing out an omnibus edition of Soulless, Changeless, and Blameless this September. There is a little forward writen by self. I think she looks a lot like Gillian Anderson in […]
Dec12010
21 Interesting Facts about the Knights Templar (Research notes for Blameless)
Gentle Reader, what follows is a combination of my own notes from various research books, mixed in with how they relate to the Parasolverse world and my thoughts on how the history might be twisted in my universe. All About the Knights Templar (or Should I Say Night’s Templars?) As they appear in Blameless, of […]
Sep292010
Tea with Oscar Wilde: Gail Carriger & M.K. Hobson Talk Steampunk Impressions of America
Gentle reader, a bit of fun for you today. Oscar Wilde In The USA In 1882, poet and raconteur Oscar Wilde spent a year touring the United States, delivering instructive lectures on art and dress reform and shocking straightlaced American suburbanites with his flamboyant style, charm, and wit. Lord Akeldama would undoubtedly have approved of […]
Aug62010
Q&A, Booklaunch, Naming Inanimate Objects
Extra long audio interview up on Zombie Popcorn Radio. You can get it as a podcast too. We never actually talked about zombies, but I may have let a few other tid-bits out accidentally over the course of such a long interview. Books Inc has officially announced my Blameless book launch party in San Francisco, […]
May102010
Blameless Catalog Spread
I got distracted yesterday, Gentle Reader. It’s not often I have itnernet time to play on the weekends. I had an unexpected free Sunday so I filled it with all things near and dear to my heart: BBC Costume dramas (I rewatched the Buccaneers), tea, and roaming about the fashion blogs. In consequence I present […]
Nov232009
Cover Awards, Interview & New Release Date for Blameless
All sorts of excitement afoot, Gentle Reader. My cover designer informed me over the weekend that Soulless won a NY Book Show best of 2009 cover award As did Nichole Peeler. Go Orbit, go, rah rah rah! I so happy for Lauren, she is amazing. You can read all about how my cover came into […]
Aug122009
End of Project Insanity Mark II
I’m at the end of this draft of Book the Third, Gentle Reader. From here on out it goes its merry way through three betas, one more set of revisions, and then off to my editor. What this really means is that Blameless is now gone away from me for a full month at least. […]
Jul12009
On the Satisfaction of Victorian Profanity
Warning, this post, may, or may not, be considered explicit. Judge for yourself, you poodle-faker Gentle Reader! I don’t know what it says about me as an author, Gentle Reader, but as I move along through this series, I seem to find myself in need of more and more swear words. (And, before you ask, […]
Jun262009
How the Victorians Described Italian Food
I recently pulled out my 1891 Baedeker’s Northern Italy, as Alexia and cohorts are currently traipsing about Florence. (Gail from the future, obvs I was writing Blameless at the time). Unfortunately, I don’t have an earlier version, and a lot changed in Italy over the 20 years between Alexia’s time and this edition of the […]