Gail Carriger Kaffeeklatche 1PM Friday Sept. 3 RM201 #worldcon #aussiecon4

Obligatory Bio

New York Times Bestselling Author Gail Carriger began writing in order to cope with being raised in obscurity by an expatriate Brit and an incurable curmudgeon...

Books

Soulless (1) & Changeless (2) & Blameless (3)

Listen to a free sample of the first chapter of Soulless! Or watch the book trailer!

"Wickedly funny ."
~ Angie Fox, New York Times Bestselling author

The Parasol Protectorate Series books are comedies of manners set in Victorian London: full of vampires, dirigibles, and tea. They are either Jane Austen doing urban fantasy, or PG Wodehouse doing steampunk. Soulless, Book the First, came out October 2009 and Changeless, Book the Second, in March 2010 and is a New York Times Bestseller. Blameless will be released September 1, 2010 from Orbit US. Heartless is due out July 2011, and Timeless in the Spring of 2012. Buy Soulless and Changeless online, at your favorite indy bookstore, or from your local brick & mortar. If you would like a signed copy of Soulless or Changeless you can order one from Borderlands Books. The Soulless audio book is also available.

Soulless Blurb

Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations. First, she has no soul. Second, she's a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she is being rudely attacked by a vampire to whom she has not been properly introduced! Where to go from there? From bad to worse apparently, for Alexia accidentally kills the vampire, and the appalling Lord Maccon (loud, messy, gorgeous, and werewolf) is sent by Queen Victoria to investigate. With unexpected vampires appearing and expected vampires disappearing, everyone seems to believe Alexia responsible. Can she figure out what is actually happening to London's high society? Will her soulless ability to negate supernatural powers prove useful or just plain embarrassing? Who is the real enemy, and do they have treacle tart?
You can purchase Soulless from the following online retailers and many others: IndieBound, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Regulator, Powell's, Mysterious Galaxy, Murder by the Book, or Books*a*Million, in ebook form from Diesel eBook.

Changeless Blurb (SPOILER ALERT for Soulless)

Alexia Tarabotti, the Lady Woolsey, awakens in the wee hours of the mid-afternoon to find her husband, who should be decently asleep like any normal werewolf, yelling at the top of his lungs. Then he disappears - leaving her to deal with a regiment of supernatural soldiers encamped on her doorstep, a plethora of exorcised ghosts, and an angry Queen Victoria. But Alexia is armed with her trusty parasol, the latest fashions, and an arsenal of biting civility. Even when her investigations take her to Scotland, the backwater of ugly waistcoats, she is prepared: upending werewolf pack dynamics as only the soulless can. She might even find time to track down her wayward husband, if she feels like it.
You can buy Changeless from Amazon, Mysterious Galaxy, Powell's, and all the other usual suspects.

Blameless Blurb (SPOILER ALERT for Soulless & Changeless)

Quitting her husband's house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season. Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council, and the only person who can explain anything, Lord Akeldama, unexpectedly leaves town. To top it all off, Alexia is attacked by homicidal mechanical ladybugs, indicating, as only ladybugs can, the fact that all of London's vampires are now very much interested in seeing Alexia quite thoroughly dead. While Lord Maccon elects to get progressively more inebriated and Professor Lyall desperately tries to hold the Woolsey werewolf pack together, Alexia flees England for Italy in search of the mysterious Templars. Only they know enough about the preternatural to explain her increasingly inconvenient condition, but they may be worse than the vampires -- and they're armed with pesto.
Currently, you can preorder Blameless from Amazon.

Gail Is On Vacation

FAQ For While Gail Is Away

My darling Gentle Reader, thank you for visiting my website and/or blog. If you are looking for an answer to a particular question, I am hoping to have developed some latent psychic abilities and have answered it here (or elsewhere on the website) in a post I wrote a month before I departed, on a trip I've already left for by the time you are reading this, to a destination from which I will be returning, only to arrive back the same day I started, before I left. Wha ha! Make sense of that if you dare.

Miss Carriger, where are you? You haven't answered my email/twitter/facebook missive?
I am strolling about the wilds of the southern hemisphere. I am searching the skies for the Great Cross. I am basking in the glow of deadly jellyfish, sampling such culinary delicacies as alligator, and hopefully making the acquaintance of a gentleman platypus.

Huh?
In short: I'm in New Zealand and then Australia from August 13 - September 6, during which I I will be at WorldCon in Melbourne. Then I am immediately back on the road for the Blameless book tour to return around September 13.

Why are you only touring the West Coast of the US for Blameless? Are you coast-ist?
My books seem to be particularly popular on that coast. However, that doesn't mean I'm ignoring the rest of the US. I love visiting conventions and do try to get out to as many, in as varied locations, as possible. Keep an eye on the Upcoming Sightings section of the website and I may be in a city near you in 2011.

Can I have a signed bookplate? Oh, pretty please?
I've no current plans to do bookplates. I'm sorry, it's just too logistically complicated. However, you can order a signed copy of my books from Borderlands. Just give them a ring and they will take any information regarding dedication and next time I'm there I'll sign it for you. It will cost you shipping as well as the price of the book, and there may be a bit of a delay, because I'm not in San Francisco all that frequently. But, they are super lovely and nice people and I will do my best to dedicate with gusto. For obvious reasons, signed copies of Blameless will be delayed well into September.

Miss Carriger, where are the REST of the audiobooks?
Recorded Books owns the rights to the first three Parasol Protectorate books. I had a phone conversation over pronunciation of the Scottish names in Changeless last month. So they are putting it into production with Emily as reader again, I believe. I don't have a release date yet, spring of next year is my best guess. You have a few options, if you would like. If you join the Parasol Protectorate Facebook group I use that as my main means of disseminating information such as rights sales, publication dates, and signings/other appearances. I'll send out a message there as soon as I have a date for the future audio books. Or, you can check back at this page of my website periodically. Under the Book Nitty Gritty section I list audio rights. I'll update that as soon as I know anything more. I promise.

O o o, and when does Heartless come out?
July 2011.

Do you have plans for any more Parasol Protectorate books after Timeless?
Not with these particular main characters. I'm one for a tidy ending and a clean series arc. Which isn't to say I won't take up the Parasol Protectorate gauntlet again, but it will probably be a different parasol and a different protectorate. Perhaps later on in time, perhaps earlier . . .

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