Gail Carriger

To the best of my knowledge, my youngest reader is 10 and the oldest is 95. ”

It seems to me that Halloween is the perfect time to get all over steampunk. ”

My absolute favorite food of all time is alpaca. ”

I love the Victorian era, and I always have, but I had a leg up on the writing because I was familiar with a lot of the science from the Victorian era. And that led to a massive interest in the science of this time of history. ”

Most people in archeology find their specialties in strange and unique ways. I always wanted to do archaeology, and then the time came for me to actually be in the field, and it was excruciatingly boring. Excavation is really, really boring. ”

At least half my writing time is spent researching. So for every hour I'm actually clicking on the keyboard, I'm spending another hour trying to figure out some tiny detail I need answered. ”

Smoke machines are the best! ”