5.30.2013
Cardigan up! #BEA13 is upon us.
Are you going to be Javits Center-ing, too? Please stop by to say HAAAY, we’ll be in booth #1829.
3.29.2013
Parasol manipulation is only one of several real world skills debuts can expect to learn from Professor Braithwope aboard Mademoiselle Geraldine’s Finishing Academy.
Are you interested in finishing?
Submit your “application” here.
In two weeks time our faculty will post the most commendable efforts and reward them with an advanced reading copy of Gail Carriger’s novel chronicling the second year of finishing school.
Good luck, my dears! And remember, if there are admissions officers to be blackmailed, blackmail them.
Translation:
There are ARCs to be sent out into the world and you’re welcome to enter for the chance to win one.
(But that sounds so much less fancy, doesn’t it?)
3.09.2013
When a finished lady’s hands are otherwise occupied (examples: taking tea, driving a carriage, staking vampires) there’s always time for listening to a good book.
3 reasons to press play:
1) The British accent.
2) Gail Carriger’s words are maybe even BETTER when read aloud. Maybe.
3) There’s that British accent.
(via finishingschoolbooks)
3.07.2013
A Flowchart for Thwarting Flywaymen
If your carriage is hijacked en route to finishing school (as carriages so often are) by flywaymen who aim to rob or kidnap you (as flywaymen so often do), this flowchart will help to define your fate.
Beware the highwaymen of the skies! Even a properly finished lady thinks dark insults at these ill-mannered men—the type of slander learned from stable lads.
Nothing puts a wrinkle in the day faster than having your carriage hijacked by flywaymen, don’t you think?
(via finishingschoolbooks)
2.26.2013
How to Ride a Werewolf
Now remember, a lady rides sidesaddle, NOT astride. Your mother would be in hysterics at the very idea that a daughter of hers would ride a werewolf astride! Why, next you’ll be showing ankle…
A how-to for your Tuesday.
(via finishingschoolbooks)
2.19.2013
![Spotted: Etiquette & Espionage ink, literally.
[Snapshot borrowed from Gail Carriger’s lovely Live Journal.]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/e6c8bbccaf8d435be57e3e9800663009/tumblr_mihprat8Su1rkciaro1_500.jpg)
Spotted: Etiquette & Espionage ink, literally.
[Snapshot borrowed from Gail Carriger’s lovely Live Journal.]
2.14.2013
A Lesson in Love
As it happens, this could not be a more perfect time to starting practicing this lesson.
Hehe.
2.13.2013
Gail Carriger (tea-drinker, writer of goodness greatness and Victorian fashion enthusiast) dropped by the Little, Brown Lounge last night to talk shop on her YA series, Finishing School.
You were otherwise engaged last night? Exhale. It’s okay! We’ve archived the whole thing for you.
2.08.2013
When one gets accepted into Mademoiselle Geraldine’s Finishing Academy one is all like:
Rule: The phrase “how perfectly topping” should henceforth be integrated into each and every conversation.
