Gail Carriger

Join our Rebel Readers Book group as we discuss Gail Carriger’s Etiquette & Espionage, the first book of her new Finishing School series. Our Fearless Leader Stacee leads the discussion! Rebel Readers receive 20% off of this month’s book group selection.

Location: Street: 2810 Artesia Boulevard City: Redondo Beach, Province: California Postal Code: 90278 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

It's one thing to learn to curtsy properly. It's quite another to learn to curtsy and throw a knife at the same time. Welcome to Finishing School.

Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is a great trial to her poor mother. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper manners--and the family can only hope that company never sees her atrocious curtsy. Mrs. Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. So she enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality.

But Sophronia soon realizes the school is not quite what her mother might have hoped. At Mademoiselle Geraldine's, young ladies learn to finish...everything. Certainly, they learn the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but the also learn to deal out death, diversion, and espionage--in the politest possible ways, of course. Sophronia and her friends are in for a rousing first year's education.

Set in the same world as the Parasol Protectorate, this YA series debut is filled with all the saucy adventure and droll humor Gail's legions of fans have come to adore.

"New York Times" bestselling author Gail Carriger writes to cope with being raised in obscurity by an expatriate Brit and an incurable curmudgeon. She survived her early years by reading most of her local library and memorizing Greek battles. Eventually she escaped small-town life and inadvertently acquired several degrees in Higher Learning. In pursuit of further finishing, Ms. Carriger traveled the historic cities of Europe, subsisting entirely on the biscuits secreted in her handbag. The Finishing School series is Gail's first foray into young adult fiction. In it, she travels back to a time before the Parasol Protectorate, explaining the mysteries of this steampunk world and visiting a few old friends. Gail now resides in the Colonies, surrounded by fantastic shoes, where she insists on tea imported from London.

Location: Street: 617 2nd St City: Davis, Province: California Postal Code: 95616-4620 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Prior to her career as a writer, Gail Carriger earned her Master’s in Archaeology and Anthropology. Looking for an outlet for her wicked sense of humor, Gail began writing. Best known for the popular Parasol Protectorate Series, Gail’s latest novel brings her fun and quirky style to the genre of young adult. Etiquette & Espionage is Gail’s first foray into young adult and the first book in her new Finishing School Series. Although set in the same world as Soulless, Etiquette & Espionage takes place in an all-girls school, and during an earlier time period.

Appearing with Ally Carter.

Location: Street: 2810 Artesia Boulevard City: Redondo Beach, Province: California Postal Code: 90278 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

"I love the fabulous Gardner Museum in Boston. Amongst the treasures there are still some empty frames waiting for the return of the priceless masterpieces taken in the infamous unsolved heist. The author has put forward a remarkably creative "what if" art thriller that had me up all night page-turning. I felt like I was given a behind the scenes pass to the high end of art world and the world of art forgers!" ~ Julie

On March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art worth today over $500 million were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. It remains the largest unsolved art heist in history, and Claire Roth, a struggling young artist, is about to discover that there’s more to this crime than meets the eye.

Claire makes her living reproducing famous works of art for a popular online retailer. Desperate to improve her situation, she lets herself be lured into a Faustian bargain with Aiden Markel, a powerful gallery owner. She agrees to forge a painting—one of the Degas masterpieces stolen from the Gardner Museum—in exchange for a one-woman show in his renowned gallery. But when the long-missing Degas painting—the one that had been hanging for one hundred years at the Gardner—is delivered to Claire’s studio, she begins to suspect that it may itself be a forgery.

Claire’s search for the truth about the painting’s origins leads her into a labyrinth of deceit where secrets hidden since the late nineteenth century may be the only evidence that can now save her life. B. A. Shapiro’s razor-sharp writing and rich plot twists make The Art Forger an absorbing literary thriller that treats us to three centuries of forgers, art thieves, and obsessive collectors. it’s a dazzling novel about seeing—and not seeing—the secrets that lie beneath the canvas.

Barbara Shapiro is the author of five suspense novels THE SAFE ROOM, BLIND SPOT, SEE NO EVIL, BLAMELESS and SHATTERED ECHOES as well as the non-fiction book, THE BIG SQUEEZE."

Rescheduled from 11/2

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Mysterious Galaxy will be in the Exhibitor’s Hall in Booth 1119. Attending authors known at publication include Special Guests of the Convention Gail Carriger (The Parasol Protectorate), Peter F. Hamilton (The Nano Flower), Jennifer and Matthew Holm (A Very Babymouse Christmas, Squish), N.K. Jemisin (The Inheritance Trilogy), Brandon Sanderson (The Alloy of Law), Doug Savage (Savage Chickens) and Jon Scalzi (Redshirts).

Attending authors in addition to the above to be found at panels, signings, and otherwise participating in the convention include: Kevin J. Anderson (The Key to Creation), George R.R. Martin (A Dance with Dragons), E.L. James (50 Shades of Gray), Gini Koch (Alien Diplomacy), Scott Speer (Immortal City), S.G. Browne (Lucky Bastard), Tony DiTerlizzi (The Search for WondLa), Diana Rowland (Even White Trash Zombies Get the Blues), Stephen Blackmoore (City of the Lost), Patrick Rothfuss (KingKiller Chronicles), Seanan McGuire (Discount Armageddon), John Hornor Jacobs (This Dark Earth), Marie Lu (Legend trilogy), Jeff Mariotte (Dark Vengeance), Tom King (Once a Crowded Sky), Andrea Cremer (The Nightshade series), Robert Ben Garant (Writing Movies for Fun and Profit), Marjorie Liu (The Mortal Bones), Sylvia Day (The Renegade Angels series), Kelley Armstrong (Thirteen), Jeanne Stein (Anna Strong Vampire novels), Heather Brewer (The Legacy of Tril), Kat Richardson (Seawitch), Anton Strout (Simon Canderous series), J.F. Lewis (Void City novels), Taylor Anderson (Destroyermen series), Jack Campbell (Lost Fleet series), Deborah Harkness (Shadow of Night); Michael Cassutt (Heaven’s Shadow), Nick Hurwitch and Phil Hornshaw (So You Created a Wormhole), Scott Westerfeld (Uglies), Amber Benson (Calliope Reaper-Jones novels); Rachel Caine (Morganville Vampires series), Tom Sniegoski (Remy Chandler series), Nathan Bransford (Jacob Wonderbar series), E.J. Altbacker (Shark Wars), and many more! Plus 125,000-odd fans and more pop culture than you can imagine!

Mysterious Galaxy will have books by many of the above authors in Booth 1119, along with special goodies from publishing partners Penguin Group and Simon & Schuster. The signing schedule for the weekend can be found at the bottom of this page in pdf format.

You can also find your favorite booksellers in the Random House Booth (#1515), HarperCollins Booth (#1016 / 1017), and of course upstairs supporting many author signings in the convention’s autograph area!

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Gail Carriger brings The Parasol Protectorate to a conclusion with Timeless, the fifth tale of Soulless Lady Alexia Maccon and her family and adversaries. Alexia and her werewolf husband and their two-year-old daughter travel to Egypt – perhaps as a transition to the next series, The Parasol Protectorate Abroad? Gail’s website describes the series as “comedies of manners set in Victorian London: full of vampires, dirigibles, and tea. They are Jane Austen doing urban fantasy meets PG Wodehouse doing steampunk.” Gail may also offer a tasteful tease about her new young adult Finishing School series, which launches next February with Etiquette & Espionage.

Location: Street: 7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd Additional: Ste 302 City: San Diego, Province: California Postal Code: 92111-1040 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Please join bestselling authors Meg Cabot, Gail Carriger, M.G. Lord and 40 other fabulous romance authors for the exciting inaugural Passion & Prose conference, a one-day event for romance readers and the writers who love them.

Your $65 ticket includes a special lunch presentations by Meg, Gail, MG, and the Breathless Reads Panel, an opportunity drawing to benefit WriteGirl, a non-profit organization that empowers disadvantaged girls thru the creativity and self-expression of writing, multiple book buying and autographing opportunities, speed dating with the authors, goodie bags filled with fun giveaways, an opportunity to connect with other romance readers, and much more...

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Location: Street: 333 East Ocean Blvd. Additional: Westin Long Beach City: Long Beach, Province: California Postal Code: 90802 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)