“I like powerful women, and I gravitate to any point in history when a ...” — Gail Carriger Quote

I like powerful women, and I gravitate to any point in history when a female has significant power. I can spend hours researching any such amazing lady, from Ching Shih to Hatshepsut to Boudica to Zenobia.

I get really flowery and verbose in my adult books, but I don't think I dumb down my Y.A. It's just cleaner and more snappy. And the adult books have multiple points-of-view. In my Y.A., it's always third person from the main character's perspective.

As for genre, my adult books are usually filed under science fiction / fantasy, although some stores put them into romance, and few have stuck them into horror. I consider all my books a mix of steampunk and urban fantasy.

I do hold very strongly that tea is better in England. There's something in the milk. They must have special cows.

I try to be the fixer of situations and I gravitate to people who are institutional misfits.

Sometimes people are very kind of uptight and they're not really sure how to behave, but after time they open up sometimes. I have a hard time on camera sometimes, too. And I don't always feel super comfortable, but I find that I try to gravitate towards people that are more comfortable than I am on camera.

I feel like surf films are something I go back to for some balance - to reset myself as a filmmaker. They're something I'll always gravitate towards.

Here's a habit I never thought I'd develop: I gravitate to anything online that's marked 'most popular' or 'most e-mailed.' And I hate myself a little bit every time I do.