Book two in the Finishing School series, Curtsies & Conspiracies, was released in November 2013. The Finishing School series takes place in the same world as the Parasol Protectorate series, featuring an earlier generation of characters. Ĭarriger's series for young adults, the four-book Finishing School series, launched with Etiquette & Espionage in February 2013 and was an instant New York Times bestseller. Wodehouse, Austen, Dickens, and Victorian travel journals' as influences on her writing. Carriger was the guest of honor at FenCon, a science fiction convention in Dallas, Texas, in September 2011. The five-book series continued with Heartless in late June 2011 and concluded with Timeless in March 2012. Her third novel, Blameless, was released in September 2010 and also became a New York Times bestseller. Her second novel, Changeless, was published in early 2010 and earned her a place on the New York Times Bestseller List. The book was a Compton Crook Award nominee, a Locus Award finalist for Best First Novel, and Locus placed her on their recommended reading list. She is a 2010 recipient of the Alex Awards.Ĭarriger's first novel, Soulless, was published in 2009 by Orbit Books and earned her a nomination for the John W. She received her undergraduate degree from Oberlin College, a masters of science in archaeological materials at England's University of Nottingham in 2000, and a master of arts in anthropology (with a focus on archaeology) at the University of California Santa Cruz in 2008. She was born in Bolinas, an unincorporated community in Marin County, California, and attended high school at Marin Academy. Gail Carriger is the pen name of Tofa Borregaard, an author of steampunk fiction and an American archaeologist.

Steampunk, paranormal romance, urban fantasy, mystery, science fiction

Changeless by Gail Carriger