For Pride Month I’ve been featuring Ace Artemis fan artist here in the blog. Ace has been drawing my my queer characters for a while now. I hope you enjoy seeing them illustrated as much as I do. Follow Ace Artemis on Twitter & Tumblr My last installment features Primrose & Tasherit. Of course I had […]
Jun292018
Illustrating Queer Characters Primrose & Tasherit by Ace Artemis
Mar282018
All About Parasols, What Do Prim/Rue/Alexia’s Actually look like?
Today, my darling Gentle Reader, I want to talk to you about my great love and passion, the humble parasol! Alexia carries several Parasols through the course of the Parasol Protectorate and passes on various others to her daughter, and her daughter’s best friend, Primrose. When conceiving the original parasol I went off of this […]
Mar222018
Going Deep on Books Sizes: Trade Paperback, Hardcover, B-format! Why do Competence & Reticence Have 2 Covers?
Competence and Reticence each have two difference overs, Gentle Reader. TWO! 2! TOOOOOOOOoooooooooo. Competence Covers Print Editions? You can call or visit your favorite local bookstore! Ask them to “Order it from Ingram.“ Borderlands offers signed editions of the USA Hardcover. They will ship worldwide. Use the SIGNED button under the book’s image on my website: Competence […]
Jan302017
Announcing the Next Custard Protocol Books!
I’m delighted to announce that I have sold the third and fourth Custard Protocol books to Orbit. The third book has a working title of Competence and I will be writing it for most of this year, 2017. Orbit intends to publish it in Summer 2018. So you have some time to get all caught up on the Custard Protocol series. Amazon […]
Jul82016
How to Stock a Victorian Medicine Cabinet: Custard Protocol Historical Research
Primrose is particularly good at her job of ship’s purser (and chief of supplies) aboard the Spotted Custard in Imprudence. One of Primrose’s jobs consists of stocking the medicine cabinet on board the Spotted Custard. Alexia in the Parasol Protectorate series is rather infamous for insisting that either vinegar or bicarbonate of soda could solve […]
Jan292016
Gail Carriger Fantasy Casts Custard Protocol the Movie
Hello, dear Gentle Reader. Today I am fantasy casting the crew of the Spotted Custard for you! One of the questions I often get is how I might dream cast my books. It’s a fun mental exercise, although I’m not married to any casting and pretty open to other people’s thoughts. You can check my […]
Mar62015
Anglicization: In Which We Revisit the Ladybird Problem
My dear Gentle Reader, This is not a topic I get asked about much anymore but just in case I’m hit with a number of the Very Curious after reading a Parasolverse book, I am going to address a delicate subject here and now… Anglicization or should I say? Anglicisation Right, so you may or […]
Feb112013
Victorian Medical Science in Reticence
Some gems of wisdom from 1871, Medical Common Sense & Plain Home Talk by Edward B. Foote, M.D. The human machinery becomes clogged with poisonous humors. As a female germ can not produce a child without the addition of a male germ, so there latent impure particles in the blood can not generate disease without […]
Sep122012
Dear Author, How Could You End the Series?
Today, Gentle Reader, I introduce a new occasional series of installments of questions I get constantly. How Could You End It? I’m delighted you liked the series but it is finished. I believe in leaving a party while I am still enjoying it, and, perhaps more importantly, while others are still enjoying my company. I’ve […]
Aug232012
Medical Common Sense and Plain Home Talk, Gail Carriger’s Parasolverse Research
Rummaging about in my research books for inspiration and getting sucked yet again into Medical Common Sense and Plain Home Talk by Edward B. Foote, M.D., 1871. This book contains such delicious chapter titles as: The Causes of Nervous and Blood Derangements (Violating the Moral Nature, Bad Habits of Manhood and Womanhood) Common Sense Remedies […]
Feb272012
Ending a Series Part 2: Emotions
There’s a sense of listlessness at the ending of a series, Gentle Reader. I’ve felt it for years as a voracious reader, now I feel it as an author for the first time. It’s a little like breaking up with a partner you still love plus losing friends through time and distance plus ending a […]
Feb222012
Ending A Series Part 1: Practicalities
Yes it’s done. Alexia’s story is finished. There will be no more Parasol Protectorate books. The thing is, Gentle Reader, I’ve never ended a series before. I’ve ended plenty of stories, somewhere in the vicinity of ten novels, and two masters thesis, but Timeless will be the first time I’ve ever completed an entire run […]