

And I think that's because I love the early gothic Victorian literature, and both things spring from that movement."

"To me, steampunk and urban fantasy are naturally hinged together."I do hold very strongly that tea is better in England.I can spend hours researching any such amazing lady, from Ching Shih to Hatshepsut to Boudica to Zenobia." "I like powerful women, and I gravitate to any point in history when a female has significant power.“And I find perfect beauty excessively boring, don't you?”.And, without a doubt, the British army regimental system functions on werewolf pack dynamics.” Those absurd Victorian manners and ridiculous fashions were obviously dictated by vampires. Clearly, one tiny little island could only conquer half the known world with supernatural aid. “What if all those strange and unexplainable bends in history were the result of supernatural interference? At which point 'asked myself, what's the weirdest most eccentric historical phenomenon of them all? Answer:the Great British Empire.Gail also has a full cast audio production of her YA sci-fi Crudrat.Ĭountries Gail is Published In English Language Territories In the Custard Protocol series, beginning with Prudence, Rue and her crack (or possibly cracked) dirigible crew get into trouble around the Empire on behalf of queen, country, and tea. Her young adult Finishing School series begins with Etiquette & Espionage and follows the exploits of Sophronia, a young woman who discovers her dreaded lady's seminary is a great deal more than she thought.

The Parasol Protectorate series begins with Soulless which won the ALA's Alex Award and has been turned into a graphic novel and optioned for TV. Gail's books are published in over a dozen different languages and she received the Prix Julia Verlanger from French readers. She resides in the Colonies, surrounded by fantastic shoes, where she insists on tea imported from London. Gail then traveled the historic cities of Europe, subsisting entirely on biscuits secreted in her handbag. She escaped small town life and inadvertently acquired several degrees in Higher Learning.

New York Times Bestselling author Gail Carriger writes to cope with being raised in obscurity by an expatriate Brit and an incurable curmudgeon.
