Dear Gentle Reader, Mercedes Lackey is one of my favorite authors. She is important to me as an inspiration. When I got to meet her in person I learn she’d my books and enjoyed them, I might have lost my tiny mind. I still get giddy thinking about it. Here is a short video in […]
Jun152020
Gail Carriger Meets Mercedes Lackey: A Fangirl Story (Video)
Jan62020
10 Things That YOU Did That Made Me Happy in 2019
Gentle Reader, here’s a small sample of things relating to you lovelies that I really enjoyed last year! Teaching the Heroine’s Journey for Writers. I forgot what a delight it is to teach a subject I love to students who are genuinely interested. I’ll never get over the sensation of watching students’ eyes shine when […]
Oct92019
Everything I Wore to Gaslight Steampunk Expo: Vote for Your Favorite!
Hello my darling Gentle Reader, Gaslight Steampunk Expo was my last event of 2019 (and my last event for a while I’m taking a travel hiatus). The theme was Ancient Egypt, and here are all the outfits I wore… Blue pattern maxi dress, with blue turban, net gloves, teapot purse. Cream lace skirt + top […]
Oct12019
Soulless’s Birthday, Stories From A Book’s Misspent Youth
Soulless is having its birthday today, Gentle Reader! Thought I might share a few of my most fun, and most silly stories revolving around the launch of my very first book, some decade or more ago now! I know, right? Shortly after Soulless came out, through no fault of mine, World Fantasy Convention came to […]
Sep92019
Miss Gail in Scotland & Ireland: Her Favorite Whisky, Food, Stand Up & More
So I was recently in Dublin, Edinburgh, and the Highlands of Scotland on a get away (combined with World Con 2019). It was a great trip, mostly because the Isles have finally discovered the rest of Europe is there and stolen their food. Finally. There were Italian and Greek and Spanish places all over, even […]
Jan222019
Live From Seattle: Never Get A Chance To See Gail At A Bookstore? We Recorded This For You!
Well Gentle Reader, I was recently in Seattle at University Bookstore. They were gracious enough to organize something rather last minute for me. (All their stock is now signed, so if you missed me, you can still get something special for yourself.) I was there visiting and staying with my author friend and podcast co-host […]
Dec142018
The Great 2019 Parasolverse Read Along Schedule & Guide!
ENDED! But you’re always welcome to do this yourself. So the Parasol Protectorate Facebook Group voted, and the Coop de Book (along with them) are doing a massive Parasolverse read along for 2019, Gentle Reader. I’ll keep pace here in the blog, in the Facebook Fan Group, on Twitter, and with the Chirrup. Skye will try […]
Aug272018
WorldCon 2018 Gossip from the Author Side + How a Con is like Tam Lin (Also Links to Things I Talked About On Panels & Useful Stuff)
Hello dear Gentle Reader, I need to process, so you’re getting a con review today. Here are my feels on WorldCon (including the parties) plus resources and links follow ups on my panel discussions. Frankly, WorldCon felt a bit like being Tam Lin, in the end. As if I had been pulled underhill, into a […]
May22018
How Many Books Can Gail Read in One Day? Dewey’s 24 Readathon
Every April (when I’m not travelling for an event) I try to participate in Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon. It falls in the same vicinity as my birthday and it is, so far as I’m concerned, the ideal way to celebrate. (Nope, I’m not telling you my birth date. The internet is wrong. I put a concerted […]
Oct302017
How to Throw a Book Launch Tea Party
Dearest Gentle Reader, Romancing the Werewolf is right around the corner. And it lands on a Sunday. Do you know what that means? High Tea! Here’s a sample of how to throw a high tea in honor of this or any other Parasolverse book (or any other book at all, I suppose)… Invitation You are […]
Jun92017
Miss Gail Is Away On Writing Retreat
My darling Gentle Reader, I am currently away from home in a super secret location (floating in a dirigible high above the clouds, of course) typing away on a two week writing retreat. I’m not entirely sure yet what I will be working on, but I promise to coo all about it in the Chirrup […]
Nov302016
Singapore 2016: The City & The Light
So after the Singapore Writers Festival, the AB and I spent a week puttering about Singapore itself. This is my standard procedure. Whenever I accept an invitation to go abroad (which I usually only do once a year) the AB and I try to piggyback a vacation on it. (AB’s job not-with-standing, which is one of […]