My compliments to the Kiwi dairy farmers! The milk, cheese, and yoghurt was marvelous. So, thank heavens was the tea. Still not as strong as Twinning’s Gold label but we fond ourselves drinking Auckland based Chanui black tea of a morning. Described as: A strong full bodied blend that was the choice of English lords […]
Oct62010
Gail Carriger’s Thoughts on Steampunk in New Zealand and Marmite
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 […]
Sep152010
Gail Carriger Tells a Story about Steampunk & Finding a Hair Dresser in Australia
But first, a new interview with Kevin on Writer’s Grove: KH: I know that your books are primarily written to be entertaining—at which they succeed magnificently—but I also enjoy the subtexts of various culture wars. Alexia’s Italian heritage and her soulless condition mark her as “other” in Victorian London, and she becomes associated with quite […]
Jun232010
Gail Carriger, Why the Octopus?
I get asked quote often, Gentle Reader… Why the Octopus? 1 First off, octopodes are the smartest, craftiest, prettiest invertebrates out there. What’s not to love about an octopus. Case in point, I give you the mimic octopus? 2 Second, they have been adopted as the personal mascot of my group of friends. So they […]
May192010
Changeless Floating Dresses in Detail
I received a question recently via email from the lovely Eva, which I thought so very intriguing others might enjoy my answer. She asked for further detail on the new fashion for floating dresses I describe briefly in my second book, Changeless. Floating Dresses I will say that in the books I did leave this […]
Mar162010
Nova Albion Steampunk Exhibition Wrap Up
Totally exhausted, Gentle Reader, from a lovely but crazy four days at the Nova Albion Steampunk Exhibition. I enjoyed myself, but it may take me the rest of the week to recover. I may just do two blogs this week as a result. Miss Kalendar has a con recap up on her Brass Needles podcast, […]
Jan62010
All About Steampunk Fashion from Author Gail Carriger
Gentle Reader, this is a reboot of an interview about steampunk fashion that I did for the steampunk fanzine Exhibition Hall. And now, shall we talk about… Steampunk Fashion 1 What defines Steampunk Fashion to you? How do (or do) you see fashion defining the Steampunk movement? Steampunk fashion tends to be an amalgamation of […]
Oct272009
How to Throw a Parasolverse High Tea: Foodstuffs
And the Book Launch was without food and snacky-bits and hunger was upon the Authorbeast. So she spoke from on high (i.e. Facebook) and doth she: Book Launch do I have, and food have I none, and time have I neither. But low, for am I rich in Foodie Friends, and we, we must strive […]
Oct262009
How to Throw a Soulless High Tea: Inventing Inebriating Beverages & Tight Paid Trousers
For the launch of Soulless I hosted a Victorian High Tea at World Fantasy on Halloween night (you see my reasoning?) in October of 2009. For that event, I came up with this blog post shortly ahead of the event. First on the agenda: select staff. In my case this involved calling in the big […]
Oct72009
How Soulless Got Its Cover
There’s been some murmuring about the blogoshere on the subject of my book cover. So I thought, Gentle Reader, I would tell you how… exactly… it came to be… How Soulless Got It’s Amazing Cover Most people seem to really like it, and several wanted to know how it came to be. So I thought, […]
Oct22009
GLiBA Tradeshow in Cleveland & Making History or Rewriting It?
It’s Soulless’s second day on sale and no, I haven’t looked at my Amazon ranking since the online launch. I hear from other authors that therein lies madness. I’m in Cleveland at the moment at the GLIBA Tradeshow. This is my old stomping grounds from undergraduate school so it’s a tad surreal to come back […]
Sep242009
30+ Best Early Steampunk Books: An Entirely Non Preferential List from Gail Carriger (2009)
Much discussion recently on the subject of steampunk literature as I enter into the field for the first time with Soulless. (Yes look at the date of this blog post, it’s from 2009.) Here’s a steampunk booklist (as of 2009*): The Windup Girl ~ Paolo Bacigalupi New Amsterdam ~ Jonathan Barnes The Somnambulist ~ Elizabeth […]