Books

"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.

Guest Blogs & Interviews

Excerpts from some of Gail's Favorite (and thus sillier) 2009 Interview Bits

The Sillier Side of Vampires hosted by Lucienne Diver
Blogging about characterization hosted by Blodeuedd
Welcoming the outline overlord hosted by BSC
Finding a paranormal home in Victorian London hosted by Strange & Random Happenstance
Historical quirks hosted by Butteryfly Book Review
Explaining history backwards hosted by Myth, the Universe, and Everything
Super Sneaky Victoriana Research Tips hosted by J. Daniel Sawyer
The Awkwardness of Vampires hosted by VampChix
Seeing My Book on a Bookstore Shelf for the First Time hosted by Dani Kollin

Gail is intending to amalgamate the following list of blog interviews into a subject divided Neverending Interview that has no repetition. Give her until the end of the year to figure out how best to organize this.

The Rise of the Parasol Protectorate interview with Jeff VandeerMeer for Amazon
Is Arabic your native language? Then this is the interview for you!
How It Began interview at Popin's Lair
In Which Gail is Asked About Cat Training interview with Natalie Allan
Characteriation & Other Questions interview with Katiebabs
The Writing Process interview at the Hiding Spot
All About Soulless interview at Babbling About Books
Some Pressing Thoughts interview at The Hiding Spot
Short But Sweet interview at Eclectic Book Lover
Charmed to be Interviewed at Fantastic Book Review
Curious Questions over on Falcata Times
All About Gail by JTGlover
Being A Writer interview at SciFi Fan Letter
Plotting To Take Over The Internet interview with Jonathan Moeller
All About The Writing Process interview at Juiciliciousss Reviews
Very Impertinent Questions Answered for Nick from Elitist Book Reviews
Includes Gail's favorite authors on Number One Novel.
Gail talks to the Book Whisperer about Victorian-ish things.
SFF Chat asks Gail about archaeology and steampunk
Ruth has tea with Gail and they get onto the subject of slapped octopodes

Audio interview about Steampunk on the Steampod podcast
Audio interview about the writing craft with Adam of the Writing Habits podcast
Audio interview about writing buisness with Mur of the I Should Be Writing podcast.
Audio interview followup with Mur at I Should Be Writing live at Balticon.
Audio interview about world building with KAXE radio, archived. Interview begins about half way through.
Audio interview about the supernatural with Dan of the Out of the Coffin podcast.
Audio recording recording from Rick Kleffel of Gail reading from Changeless at SF in SF.
Audio interview about the books in general with Rick Kleffel of The Agony Column at SF in SF.

Video Interview from BookExpo America 2009 in which GalleyCat's Ron Hogan asks Gail about proper dress. Two from World Fantasy 2009. One with Jeff VanderMeer on squid versus octopus. (Filmed by Pixel Media for the upcoming television series "Margins" Please contact kimball@thepixelmeida.com for further info.) And one with Peter V. Brett crashing the Soulless book launch party.