You may or may not have already noticed that there are lots of queer characters in my books. I know, right? What could be better than rainbow hugs? Below is an ongoing list of books, novellas, and short stories that I have written featuring queer* main characters. All of my books have queer rep, regardless […]
Jun142023
All Gail Carriger’s Queer Books: Fun LGBTQ+ Cozy Stories
Nov22022
How To Read the eBook You Bought Directly from Me? (via Gumroad)
Darling Gentle Reader, I use a vendor interface called Gumroad in order to sell and give away books directly to you. This allows me to cut out the middlemen and not use companies like Amazon, who are miserable to deal with. However, I understand that Gumroad may not be a comfortable interface for some, and […]
Jul312020
The San Andreas Shifters Pack House In Detail!
My darlings, here is a special behind the scenes look at the pack house in the San Andreas series that features prominently in all the books in the series, but which I really had to puzzle through and lay out for The Enforcer Enigma. San Andreas Pack Pack House Sketches By request over email (which […]
May242019
Researching Gender Fluidity & Representing it in Fiction
I’ll be honest, Gentle Reader, I wrote The 5th Gender, basically in the space of one week without internet. So while I was writing it. I just let it come… So to speak. But after that, I did a ton of research, as indeed I did for Custard Protocol, San Andreas Shifters & other Tinkered […]
Nov92018
Drinks for Shifters: Creating Hilarious Cocktails for Supernatural Creatures
Isaac, the main character in my new San Andreas Shifter book, The Omega Objection, is a bartender. Thus the meat cute and various other scenes in this book all occur inside a club named Saucebox, and the bar caters to shifters. Oh did I have fun creating drinks for different shifter species. Here’s an example […]
Sep82017
Where’s the print edition? The Mess Behind Self-Publishing
The moment I list a new book, Gentle Reader I get hundreds of people asking… I really appreciate your enthusiasm! First off currently most vendors do not allow independent authors to list print books for preorder. At all. So you will only be able to get it after it releases. Here’s a TOC because this is […]
Aug22017
9 Gay Romances That You’ll Love If You Enjoy Gail Carriger’s San Andreas Shifter series
Hello hello. I’m hoping by now you’ve had a chance to read my latest book, The Sumage Solution. If you have, as always, I’d adore a review. The second book, The Omega Objection is out now, with more to follow. In the interim, I’ve put together this list of authors I absolutely love who write […]
Jun302017
Werewolves & Tea or How Gail Handles The Sacred Leaf In A Modern Setting (Pu-erh)
So the werewolf love interest in my upcoming book, The Sumage Solution, has a bit of an obsession with tea. Which he takes very very seriously. Unlike me, his obsession is with all different kinds of high quality tea (as opposed to just English breakfast with milk). His favorite is Puerh. Which, frankly, I never know how […]
May262017
A Gail By Any Other Name Should “L” As Sweet
In which I put my new pen name up to the vote. After some dithering and hemming and hawing, Gentle Reader I chose the new pen name G.L. Carriger for my upcoming urban fantasy, The Sumage Solution. G. L. Carriger I talk about why I felt I needed a changed name in this blog post: Why G. […]
May222017
Why a NYT Bestselling Author Changed Her Pen Name to G. L. Carriger
Why have a pseudonym? Why would an author who already has name recognition write under a new pen name? In this blog post I’m going to discuss why a bestselling author might chose a new pen name. It’s not for the reasons you think. On Pseudonyms, Cover Art & Reader Betrayal You may or may […]
Apr302010
Queering-Up Genre One Akeldama at a Time: Why I Write LGBTQ+ Characters from Gail Carriger
I’ve been contemplating this blog post for a while, Gentle Reader. Generally, I try to avoid matters personal or political online, but a review of Changeless finally convinced me I should say something on the subject. (As an aside, this post updated regularly with new images, books, and links.) You are hereby warned that […]