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* {{Foreshadowing}}: At the start of ''Gnome Man's Land,'' the banshee Teleri is bewailing the coming death of "the Desmond," to the consternation of Tim Desmond - the last male of the Desmond line - who happens to be in the middle of a babysitting job. [[spoiler:It turns out that Tim's dad is still alive in the Leeside as a Champion of the Fey, and at the end of the novel, he gives his life to save his son.]]
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* SequelEscalation: The longer the Leeside hole exists, the more it gets streched out, and the bigger the threats become. In ''Gnome Man's Land," Tim has to deal with domestic spirits and the creatures of Faerie. In ''Harpy High,'' the escapees are now monsters such as vampires, oni, and Baba Yaga. By ''Unicorn U.,'' Tim has to face off with actual gods of chaos and destruction.
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** Also how the Leeside came to be in the ''Gnome Man's Land" trilogy - mass human disbelief banished magic from the world by forcing the creatures of myth and legend into a prison dimension, except for a few that had just enough human blood to stick around.
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* GuardianEntity: In the ''Gnome Man's Land'' trilogy, the obnoxious Yang is a Mongol ancestral spirit dedicated to protecting his descendant T'ing Hau Kaplan.
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* NakedOnArrival: In the first chapter of ''Gnome Man's Land,'' Tim's family banshee arrives buck naked. In the midst of his babysitting job. It's a few chapters before she stays clothed for keeps.
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* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: The banshee Teleri thinks nothing of going around in the buff, even though she knows it might give Tim thoughts. The way she sees it, he's entitled to some pleasant last moments.
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* ''Literature/TalesFromJabbasPalace'' (the short story "That's Entertainment: The Tale of Salacious Crumb")
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* FashionBasedRelationshipCue: In ''The Sword of Mary'', Becca is tricked into wearing a paper flower [[spoiler:that indicates she's a lesbian, potentially getting her in trouble with the law]]. Different flower colors indicate different interests at an underground bar.
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* ActionGirl - Becca eventually becomes this in ''The Sword of Mary''.
* AfterTheEnd - Implied to be the setting of the ''Becca of Wiserways'' books.
* AlternateUniverse - several examples.
* {{Bridezilla}} - "The Wedding of Wylda Serene" starts with the narrator talking about his sister's bridezilla antics, which eventually leads to her being forced to ask one of the decorators to be a bridesmaid, thus kicking off the backstory. People later start to suspect that the title character is like this because she insists on having the wedding at the Club, but it later turns out that she was put up to it by her mother, who insisted that Wylda get the wedding that she never did.
* ChekhovMIA - In the ''Gnome Man's Land'' series, the father of the main character went out for a ''Sunday Times'' and never came back. It was later revealed that he'd spent the six years he'd been gone [[spoiler:as the Champion of the Fey]].
* AfterTheEnd - Implied to be the setting of the ''Becca of Wiserways'' books.
* AlternateUniverse - several examples.
* {{Bridezilla}} - "The Wedding of Wylda Serene" starts with the narrator talking about his sister's bridezilla antics, which eventually leads to her being forced to ask one of the decorators to be a bridesmaid, thus kicking off the backstory. People later start to suspect that the title character is like this because she insists on having the wedding at the Club, but it later turns out that she was put up to it by her mother, who insisted that Wylda get the wedding that she never did.
* ChekhovMIA - In the ''Gnome Man's Land'' series, the father of the main character went out for a ''Sunday Times'' and never came back. It was later revealed that he'd spent the six years he'd been gone [[spoiler:as the Champion of the Fey]].
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* ActionGirl - ActionGirl: Becca eventually becomes this in ''The Sword of Mary''.
*AfterTheEnd - AfterTheEnd: Implied to be the setting of the ''Becca of Wiserways'' books.
*AlternateUniverse - several AlternateUniverse: Several examples.
*{{Bridezilla}} - "The {{Bridezilla}}: ''The Wedding of Wylda Serene" Serene'' starts with the narrator talking about his sister's bridezilla antics, which eventually leads to her being forced to ask one of the decorators to be a bridesmaid, thus kicking off the backstory. People later start to suspect that the title character is like this because she insists on having the wedding at the Club, but it later turns out that she was put up to it by her mother, who insisted that Wylda get the wedding that she never did.
*ChekhovMIA - ChekhovMIA: In the ''Gnome Man's Land'' series, the father of the main character went out for a ''Sunday Times'' and never came back. It was later revealed that he'd spent the six years he'd been gone [[spoiler:as the Champion of the Fey]].
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* DungeonBypass - In ''Elf Defense'', our heroes are stuck in a [[MobileMaze magical semi-sentient hedgemaze]], which has just separated the college professor being pursued by a dragon from the elven prince who actually knows how to ''fight'' a dragon. No problem: the Welsh au pair calmly picks up a sword and proceeds to chop her way through the first hedge in the way. The maze, not being stupid, immediately opens a clear path for her.
* EvenEvilHasStandards - A man offered his four year old daughter to the dragon in ''New York By Knight'', which proved to be a bad idea. This dragon was far more traditional about its sacrifices.
* FantasticFragility - In ''Elf Defense'', an elf explains that "only the Infinite is infinite" -- which means anything ''not'' the Infinite has to have a weakness. (Specifically in this case, an elven vulnerability to Latin.)
* ForbiddenZone - Becca of Wiserways series.
* FreakyFridayFlip - Happens to two of the protagonists of ''Harpy High''; since one of them has a physically abusive father, the other one acquires a little more understanding than he wanted.
* FreeingTheGenie - in ''Wishing Season''
* GayBarReveal - In ''Demon Blues'', one of the straight characters stumbles into a gay bar crying about the girl he can't get, proceeds to get so drunk he doesn't catch on, and when the bartender is worried about him, gets taken home by a chivalrous time-traveling UsefulNotes/RichardTheLionHeart. He pieces it all together the next morning.
* GoodOldWays - Becca of Wiserways.
* HiddenBackupPrince - In ''Split Heirs'', the King's people believe that twins are a sign of infidelity, so when Queen Artemisia gives birth to triplets, she gives two of them to a nurse who gives them to two other families to raise as commoners. The rest of the book is a hilarious deconstruction of PrinceAndPauper tropes, especially since she accidentally gave both boys to the nurse forcing her to raise the girl as the prince.
* HistoricalFantasy - ''Child of the Eagle''. Venus appears to Marcus Brutus and convinces him to thwart the assassination of Julius Caesar.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold - Megan, the protagonist of ''Harlot's Ruse''.
* HouseFey - In the ''Gnome Man's Land'' series, Tim Desmond's mother's Russian ancestry causes a bannik (a household domestic sprite) to move in, which ends up driving her crazy with its obsessive cleanliness.
* InSpiteOfANail - In ''Druid's Blood'', magic works, so powerfully that the Druids stopped the Roman invasion and (presumably) any later invasions and kept Britain Celtic, but by the 19th Century London and the British look pretty much the same apart from details -- teleported scrolls instead of telegrams, Beltane fires in Trafalgar Square (they did fight Napoleon, he was a Gaulish Druid), Queen Victoria as a witch, etc. But this is strictly RuleOfFunny, since the point is to set a Franchise/SherlockHolmes adventure in a Celtic fantasy world.
* JackassGenie - in ''Wishing Season''
* LawyerFriendlyCameo - Towards the end of ''Harpy High'', the main character's mother starts dating Dr. Faustus and drawing a comic strip called ''Mr. Mephisto'' which, in the words of the main character's best friend, is about "this wizard and this demon and they go around with this [[ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} fat orange kitten]] that thinks all these funny things and eats lasagna and--"
* TheMagicGoesAway - ''Yesterday We Saw Mermaids''
* TheNudifier - the dragon from ''New York By Knight'' causes an intended victim's clothes to vanish in order for her to be properly presented as an offering.
* OnlyICanKillHim - In ''The Sherwood Game'', a programmer creates a VR Robin Hood game, and creates a specific rule that his character is the only one who can kill the Sheriff of Nottingham. He comes to regret this when he has to play the game [[YourMindMakesItReal with the safeties off]].
* OurAngelsAreDifferent - The ''Demon'' Trilogy.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent - The ''Demon'' Trilogy.
* PantheonSitcom - ''Temping Fate'' has gods and anthropomorphic personifications (e.g. the Fates) like this, with rebellious teenage demigods, curmudgeonly elder gods, and so on.
* PokeThePoodle - In ''Demon Blues'', the hero is a college kid who for various reasons (like trying to rescue his roommate and impress his succubus girlfriend) is looking to acquire demonic magical power, which can only be earned through acts of evil. So he spends much of the book hunting for evil to do that won't, you know, ''hurt'' anybody...
* ThePowerOfRock - In ''Unicorn U.'', the apocalypse is averted with the power of samba.
* PrinceAndPauper - Parodied and subverted all to heck in ''Split Heirs'', in which there are ''two'' paupers and the prince is actually a girl raised as a boy.
* PunBasedTitle - ''New York by Knight'', ''Elf Defense'' ''Hooray for Hellywood'', ''Split Heirs''
* RaisedAsTheOppositeGender - ''Split Heirs'' tells the story of a queen who gives birth to triplets, two boys and a girl. However, her husband's people have the belief that multiple births stem from infidelity, so she asks her loyal retainer to take away the daughter and youngest son to be raised elsewhere, so the king would never find out about the triplets' birth. Alas, the retainer messes up, and take the two boys instead. By the time the queen discovers the mistake, it is too late, and she is forced to raise her daughter as a prince, and heir to the throne.
* RiddleOfTheSphinx -
** The riddle is the reason that the members of the Club in "The Wedding of Wylda Serene" accepted the sphinx that one of their members brought, figuring that everyone knew the answer, so no one would get eaten. Then she learned some new ones...
* EvenEvilHasStandards - A man offered his four year old daughter to the dragon in ''New York By Knight'', which proved to be a bad idea. This dragon was far more traditional about its sacrifices.
* FantasticFragility - In ''Elf Defense'', an elf explains that "only the Infinite is infinite" -- which means anything ''not'' the Infinite has to have a weakness. (Specifically in this case, an elven vulnerability to Latin.)
* ForbiddenZone - Becca of Wiserways series.
* FreakyFridayFlip - Happens to two of the protagonists of ''Harpy High''; since one of them has a physically abusive father, the other one acquires a little more understanding than he wanted.
* FreeingTheGenie - in ''Wishing Season''
* GayBarReveal - In ''Demon Blues'', one of the straight characters stumbles into a gay bar crying about the girl he can't get, proceeds to get so drunk he doesn't catch on, and when the bartender is worried about him, gets taken home by a chivalrous time-traveling UsefulNotes/RichardTheLionHeart. He pieces it all together the next morning.
* GoodOldWays - Becca of Wiserways.
* HiddenBackupPrince - In ''Split Heirs'', the King's people believe that twins are a sign of infidelity, so when Queen Artemisia gives birth to triplets, she gives two of them to a nurse who gives them to two other families to raise as commoners. The rest of the book is a hilarious deconstruction of PrinceAndPauper tropes, especially since she accidentally gave both boys to the nurse forcing her to raise the girl as the prince.
* HistoricalFantasy - ''Child of the Eagle''. Venus appears to Marcus Brutus and convinces him to thwart the assassination of Julius Caesar.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold - Megan, the protagonist of ''Harlot's Ruse''.
* HouseFey - In the ''Gnome Man's Land'' series, Tim Desmond's mother's Russian ancestry causes a bannik (a household domestic sprite) to move in, which ends up driving her crazy with its obsessive cleanliness.
* InSpiteOfANail - In ''Druid's Blood'', magic works, so powerfully that the Druids stopped the Roman invasion and (presumably) any later invasions and kept Britain Celtic, but by the 19th Century London and the British look pretty much the same apart from details -- teleported scrolls instead of telegrams, Beltane fires in Trafalgar Square (they did fight Napoleon, he was a Gaulish Druid), Queen Victoria as a witch, etc. But this is strictly RuleOfFunny, since the point is to set a Franchise/SherlockHolmes adventure in a Celtic fantasy world.
* JackassGenie - in ''Wishing Season''
* LawyerFriendlyCameo - Towards the end of ''Harpy High'', the main character's mother starts dating Dr. Faustus and drawing a comic strip called ''Mr. Mephisto'' which, in the words of the main character's best friend, is about "this wizard and this demon and they go around with this [[ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} fat orange kitten]] that thinks all these funny things and eats lasagna and--"
* TheMagicGoesAway - ''Yesterday We Saw Mermaids''
* TheNudifier - the dragon from ''New York By Knight'' causes an intended victim's clothes to vanish in order for her to be properly presented as an offering.
* OnlyICanKillHim - In ''The Sherwood Game'', a programmer creates a VR Robin Hood game, and creates a specific rule that his character is the only one who can kill the Sheriff of Nottingham. He comes to regret this when he has to play the game [[YourMindMakesItReal with the safeties off]].
* OurAngelsAreDifferent - The ''Demon'' Trilogy.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent - The ''Demon'' Trilogy.
* PantheonSitcom - ''Temping Fate'' has gods and anthropomorphic personifications (e.g. the Fates) like this, with rebellious teenage demigods, curmudgeonly elder gods, and so on.
* PokeThePoodle - In ''Demon Blues'', the hero is a college kid who for various reasons (like trying to rescue his roommate and impress his succubus girlfriend) is looking to acquire demonic magical power, which can only be earned through acts of evil. So he spends much of the book hunting for evil to do that won't, you know, ''hurt'' anybody...
* ThePowerOfRock - In ''Unicorn U.'', the apocalypse is averted with the power of samba.
* PrinceAndPauper - Parodied and subverted all to heck in ''Split Heirs'', in which there are ''two'' paupers and the prince is actually a girl raised as a boy.
* PunBasedTitle - ''New York by Knight'', ''Elf Defense'' ''Hooray for Hellywood'', ''Split Heirs''
* RaisedAsTheOppositeGender - ''Split Heirs'' tells the story of a queen who gives birth to triplets, two boys and a girl. However, her husband's people have the belief that multiple births stem from infidelity, so she asks her loyal retainer to take away the daughter and youngest son to be raised elsewhere, so the king would never find out about the triplets' birth. Alas, the retainer messes up, and take the two boys instead. By the time the queen discovers the mistake, it is too late, and she is forced to raise her daughter as a prince, and heir to the throne.
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* DungeonBypass - DungeonBypass: In ''Elf Defense'', our heroes are stuck in a [[MobileMaze magical semi-sentient hedgemaze]], which has just separated the college professor being pursued by a dragon from the elven prince who actually knows how to ''fight'' a dragon. No problem: the Welsh au pair calmly picks up a sword and proceeds to chop her way through the first hedge in the way. The maze, not being stupid, immediately opens a clear path for her.
*EvenEvilHasStandards - EvenEvilHasStandards: A man offered his four year old daughter to the dragon in ''New York By Knight'', which proved to be a bad idea. This dragon was far more traditional about its sacrifices.
*FantasticFragility - FantasticFragility: In ''Elf Defense'', an elf explains that "only the Infinite is infinite" -- which means anything ''not'' the Infinite has to have a weakness. (Specifically in this case, an elven vulnerability to Latin.)
*ForbiddenZone - Becca ForbiddenZone: ''Becca of Wiserways Wiserways'' series.
*FreakyFridayFlip - FreakyFridayFlip: Happens to two of the protagonists of ''Harpy High''; since one of them has a physically abusive father, the other one acquires a little more understanding than he wanted.
*FreeingTheGenie - in FreeingTheGenie: In ''Wishing Season''
*GayBarReveal - GayBarReveal: In ''Demon Blues'', one of the straight characters stumbles into a gay bar crying about the girl he can't get, proceeds to get so drunk he doesn't catch on, and when the bartender is worried about him, gets taken home by a chivalrous time-traveling UsefulNotes/RichardTheLionHeart. He pieces it all together the next morning.
*GoodOldWays - GoodOldWays: Becca of Wiserways.
*HiddenBackupPrince - HiddenBackupPrince: In ''Split Heirs'', the King's people believe that twins are a sign of infidelity, so when Queen Artemisia gives birth to triplets, she gives two of them to a nurse who gives them to two other families to raise as commoners. The rest of the book is a hilarious deconstruction of PrinceAndPauper tropes, especially since she accidentally gave both boys to the nurse forcing her to raise the girl as the prince.
*HistoricalFantasy - HistoricalFantasy: ''Child of the Eagle''. Venus appears to Marcus Brutus and convinces him to thwart the assassination of Julius Caesar.
*HookerWithAHeartOfGold - HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Megan, the protagonist of ''Harlot's Ruse''.
*HouseFey - HouseFey: In the ''Gnome Man's Land'' series, Tim Desmond's mother's Russian ancestry causes a bannik (a household domestic sprite) to move in, which ends up driving her crazy with its obsessive cleanliness.
*InSpiteOfANail - InSpiteOfANail: In ''Druid's Blood'', magic works, so powerfully that the Druids stopped the Roman invasion and (presumably) any later invasions and kept Britain Celtic, but by the 19th Century London and the British look pretty much the same apart from details -- teleported scrolls instead of telegrams, Beltane fires in Trafalgar Square (they did fight Napoleon, he was a Gaulish Druid), Queen Victoria as a witch, etc. But this is strictly RuleOfFunny, since the point is to set a Franchise/SherlockHolmes adventure in a Celtic fantasy world.
*JackassGenie - JackassGenie: in ''Wishing Season''
*LawyerFriendlyCameo - LawyerFriendlyCameo: Towards the end of ''Harpy High'', the main character's mother starts dating Dr. Faustus and drawing a comic strip called ''Mr. Mephisto'' which, in the words of the main character's best friend, is about "this wizard and this demon and they go around with this [[ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} fat orange kitten]] that thinks all these funny things and eats lasagna and--"
*TheMagicGoesAway - TheMagicGoesAway: ''Yesterday We Saw Mermaids''
*TheNudifier - the TheNudifier: The dragon from ''New York By Knight'' causes an the intended victim's clothes to vanish in order for her to be properly presented as an offering.
*OnlyICanKillHim - OnlyICanKillHim: In ''The Sherwood Game'', a programmer creates a VR Robin Hood game, and creates a specific rule that his character is the only one who can kill the Sheriff of Nottingham. He comes to regret this when he has to play the game [[YourMindMakesItReal with the safeties off]].
*OurAngelsAreDifferent - OurAngelsAreDifferent: The ''Demon'' Trilogy.
*OurDemonsAreDifferent - OurDemonsAreDifferent: The ''Demon'' Trilogy.
*PantheonSitcom - PantheonSitcom: ''Temping Fate'' has gods and anthropomorphic personifications (e.g. the Fates) like this, with rebellious teenage demigods, curmudgeonly elder gods, and so on.
*PokeThePoodle - PokeThePoodle: In ''Demon Blues'', the hero is a college kid who for various reasons (like trying to rescue his roommate and impress his succubus girlfriend) is looking to acquire demonic magical power, which can only be earned through acts of evil. So he spends much of the book hunting for evil to do that won't, you know, ''hurt'' anybody...
*ThePowerOfRock - ThePowerOfRock: In ''Unicorn U.'', the apocalypse is averted with the power of samba.
*PrinceAndPauper - PrinceAndPauper: Parodied and subverted all to heck in ''Split Heirs'', in which there are ''two'' paupers and the prince is actually a girl raised as a boy.
*PunBasedTitle - PunBasedTitle: ''New York by Knight'', ''Elf Defense'' ''Hooray for Hellywood'', ''Split Heirs''
*RaisedAsTheOppositeGender - RaisedAsTheOppositeGender: ''Split Heirs'' tells the story of a queen who gives birth to triplets, two boys and a girl. However, her husband's people have the belief that multiple births stem from infidelity, so she asks her loyal retainer to take away the daughter and youngest son to be raised elsewhere, so the king would never find out about the triplets' birth. Alas, the retainer messes up, and take the two boys instead. By the time the queen discovers the mistake, it is too late, and she is forced to raise her daughter as a prince, and heir to the throne.
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* RobinHood - ''The Sherwood Game'' is about a {{Cyberspace}} game featuring the Robin Hood characters; it gets complicated when InstantAIJustAddWater kicks in. (Though things don't get ''really'' bad until the CorruptCorporateExecutive shows up.)
* SexBot - The RobinHood program in ''The Sherwood Game'' gets downloaded into a pleasure android.
* ShoutOut - The title characters of ''Death and the Librarian'' were inspired by some Literature/{{Discworld}} figurines she had on her desk (though the story has nothing to do with Literature/{{Discworld}}).
* SinisterMinister - played for comedy in ''Hooray for Hellywood'', televangelist "Sometime" Joseph Lee is in fact the demon Raleel.
* SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness: from the very funny, pun-laden ''Majyk'' series to the post-apocalyptic CrapsackWorld of ''Becca of Wiserways''.
* SterilityPlague - In Becca of Wiserways, some sort of unspecified DepopulationBomb in the past has made it so that women only get their periods once per ''year''.
* TalkingAnimal - A magically-talking cat in ''Wishing Season''
* TeenageWasteland - Becca of Wiserways encounters one.
* UrbanFantasy - The ''New York By Knight'' trilogy, ''Demon'' Trilogy and ''Gnome Man's Land'' Trilogy, ''The Sherwood Game''
* VillainOverForDinner - In ''Elf Defense'', protagonist divorce lawyer Sandra Horowitz finds her mother having lunch with elven king Kelerison (whose ex-wife she's representing), who immediately has worked up all of her mom's JewishMother guilt against her.
* SexBot - The RobinHood program in ''The Sherwood Game'' gets downloaded into a pleasure android.
* ShoutOut - The title characters of ''Death and the Librarian'' were inspired by some Literature/{{Discworld}} figurines she had on her desk (though the story has nothing to do with Literature/{{Discworld}}).
* SinisterMinister - played for comedy in ''Hooray for Hellywood'', televangelist "Sometime" Joseph Lee is in fact the demon Raleel.
* SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness: from the very funny, pun-laden ''Majyk'' series to the post-apocalyptic CrapsackWorld of ''Becca of Wiserways''.
* SterilityPlague - In Becca of Wiserways, some sort of unspecified DepopulationBomb in the past has made it so that women only get their periods once per ''year''.
* TalkingAnimal - A magically-talking cat in ''Wishing Season''
* TeenageWasteland - Becca of Wiserways encounters one.
* UrbanFantasy - The ''New York By Knight'' trilogy, ''Demon'' Trilogy and ''Gnome Man's Land'' Trilogy, ''The Sherwood Game''
* VillainOverForDinner - In ''Elf Defense'', protagonist divorce lawyer Sandra Horowitz finds her mother having lunch with elven king Kelerison (whose ex-wife she's representing), who immediately has worked up all of her mom's JewishMother guilt against her.
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* RobinHood - Myth/RobinHood: ''The Sherwood Game'' is about a {{Cyberspace}} game featuring the Robin Hood characters; it gets complicated when InstantAIJustAddWater kicks in. (Though things don't get ''really'' bad until the CorruptCorporateExecutive shows up.)
*SexBot - SexBot: The RobinHood [=RobinHood=] program in ''The Sherwood Game'' gets downloaded into a pleasure android.
*ShoutOut - ShoutOut: The title characters of ''Death and the Librarian'' were inspired by some Literature/{{Discworld}} figurines she had on her desk (though the story has nothing to do with Literature/{{Discworld}}).
*SinisterMinister - played SinisterMinister: Played for comedy in ''Hooray for Hellywood'', televangelist "Sometime" Joseph Lee is in fact the demon Raleel.
* SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness:from From the very funny, pun-laden ''Majyk'' series to the post-apocalyptic CrapsackWorld of ''Becca of Wiserways''.
*SterilityPlague - SterilityPlague: In Becca of Wiserways, some sort of unspecified DepopulationBomb in the past has made it so that women only get their periods once per ''year''.
*TalkingAnimal - TalkingAnimal: A magically-talking cat in ''Wishing Season''
*TeenageWasteland - TeenageWasteland: Becca of Wiserways encounters one.
*UrbanFantasy - UrbanFantasy: The ''New York By Knight'' trilogy, ''Demon'' Trilogy and ''Gnome Man's Land'' Trilogy, ''The Sherwood Game''
*VillainOverForDinner - VillainOverForDinner: In ''Elf Defense'', protagonist divorce lawyer Sandra Horowitz finds her mother having lunch with elven king Kelerison (whose ex-wife she's representing), who immediately has worked up all of her mom's JewishMother guilt against her.
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* YiddishAsASecondLanguage - ''Elf Defense'' includes among its minor characters a classic Tolkien/Shakespeare-style elf maiden whose speech is unexpectedly punctuated with the occasional bit of Yiddish. When called on it, she abashedly admits to dating a dybbuk (a possessing demon of Jewish myth).
* YoungFutureFamousPeople - The ''Princesses of Myth'' series, about historical or semihistorical (or straight-up mythical) princesses of history during their childhood and young adulthood. So far she has taken on Helen of Troy, Nefertiti of Egypt, Himiko of Yamatai/Japan, and Maeve of Connacht/Ireland.
* YiddishAsASecondLanguage - ''Elf Defense'' includes among its minor characters a classic Tolkien/Shakespeare-style elf maiden whose speech is unexpectedly punctuated with the occasional bit of Yiddish. When called on it, she abashedly admits to dating a dybbuk (a possessing demon of Jewish myth).
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* {{Wishplosion}} - {{Wishplosion}}: In the second half of ''Wishing Season'', a Jinn will be free to wreak havoc as soon as the hero uses his half-wish (he only gets half of what is stated in the wish), so he wishes for the Jinn to be free. This ends up with the Jinn being free of the spell that made him grant wishes, but married to a very nagging demoness.
*YiddishAsASecondLanguage - YiddishAsASecondLanguage: ''Elf Defense'' includes among its minor characters a classic Tolkien/Shakespeare-style elf maiden whose speech is unexpectedly punctuated with the occasional bit of Yiddish. When called on it, she abashedly admits to dating a dybbuk (a possessing demon of Jewish myth).
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Esther Friesner (also known as Esther M. Friesner) is a fantasy author best known for her humorous works, though she spans the SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness. Friesner was named Outstanding New Fantasy Writer by Romantic Times in 1986. She won the Skylark Award in 1994. She has been nominated a number of times for the HugoAward and UsefulNotes/NebulaAward, winning the Nebula Award for Best Short Story in 1995 and 1996 for, respectively, "Death and the Librarian" and "A Birth Day". She has also edited a large number of anthologies, perhaps most famously the ''Literature/ChicksInChainmail'' series.
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Esther Friesner (also known as Esther M. Friesner) is a fantasy author best known for her humorous works, though she spans the SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness. Friesner was named Outstanding New Fantasy Writer by Romantic Times in 1986. She won the Skylark Award in 1994. She has been nominated a number of times for the HugoAward UsefulNotes/HugoAward and UsefulNotes/NebulaAward, winning the Nebula Award for Best Short Story in 1995 and 1996 for, respectively, "Death and the Librarian" and "A Birth Day". She has also edited a large number of anthologies, perhaps most famously the ''Literature/ChicksInChainmail'' series.
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* ChristopherColumbus - ''Yesterday We Saw Mermaids''
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* TheNudifier - the dragon from ''NewYorkByKnight'' causes an intended victim's clothes to vanish in order for her to be properly presented as an offering.
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* TheNudifier - the dragon from ''NewYorkByKnight'' ''New York By Knight'' causes an intended victim's clothes to vanish in order for her to be properly presented as an offering.
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* ''Literature/MajykByAccident'' series
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* AccidentalMarriage - About halfway through ''Majyk by Accident'', the protagonist is saddled with a Welfin wife when he takes her hand to go to dinner. She's pleased because she loathes the Welfin way of life, the other Welfies are pleased because it means they can make demands of the protagonist, and nobody really cares what he thinks of it.
* ActionGirl -
** Several characters in the ''Majyk'' series.
** Becca eventually becomes this in ''The Sword of Mary''.
* ActionGirl -
** Several characters in the ''Majyk'' series.
** Becca eventually becomes this in ''The Sword of Mary''.
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** Several characters in the ''Majyk'' series.
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* CatsHaveNineLives - A recurring plot point in the ''Majyk'' books. At one point, a cat loses half a life, the other half of which gets returned in the form of a kitten.
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* DamselInDistress - Played with multiple ways in the ''Majyk'' trilogy.
** Mysti in ''Majyk by Accident'', whose only source of distress is her [[OurElvesAreDifferent Welfin]] relatives and who [[spoiler:bullies Kendar into marrying her so she can leave the "jolly greensward ho" and stop skipping around like an idiot and her only REAL distress is when the curse hits her after Kendar refuses to follow through with a promise he made during the wedding vows.]]
** In ''Majyk by Hook or Crook'', we have not only Mysti [[spoiler:who has become the swashbuckler with a secret identity, A Blade for Justice (and prefers to be referred to by his/her full name)]], but we also have Anisella, who wears nothing but chain mail, has a black belt in ''helo kiti'' and a green barette in ''po kipsi'', and crumples like a [=McDonalds=] napkin when even barely brushed by [[spoiler:wool... or any other fabric.]]
** ''Majyk by Design'' has a male example in Prince Boffin [[spoiler:who has been turned into a toad]] but also a parody in Kendar's aunts (mercenary swordswomen) and his soon-to-be sister-in-law Dulcetta who, although she is generally the TYPE of girl who would fall into this category, actually [[spoiler:kidnapped the man whom everyone thought kidnapped her and hatched a scheme with him to write romance novels. When the main characters find her she is heard screaming for help with the help of a metric ton of PurpleProse and while she is recounting to them the story of what happened runs off to write when the characters paraphrase her cries as "Help me". She thought it was perfect. It also comes to light that her mother, who raised her to be a docile, dependent woman, was a barbarian swordswoman herself and only gave it up because she preferred regular bathing.]]
** Mysti in ''Majyk by Accident'', whose only source of distress is her [[OurElvesAreDifferent Welfin]] relatives and who [[spoiler:bullies Kendar into marrying her so she can leave the "jolly greensward ho" and stop skipping around like an idiot and her only REAL distress is when the curse hits her after Kendar refuses to follow through with a promise he made during the wedding vows.]]
** In ''Majyk by Hook or Crook'', we have not only Mysti [[spoiler:who has become the swashbuckler with a secret identity, A Blade for Justice (and prefers to be referred to by his/her full name)]], but we also have Anisella, who wears nothing but chain mail, has a black belt in ''helo kiti'' and a green barette in ''po kipsi'', and crumples like a [=McDonalds=] napkin when even barely brushed by [[spoiler:wool... or any other fabric.]]
** ''Majyk by Design'' has a male example in Prince Boffin [[spoiler:who has been turned into a toad]] but also a parody in Kendar's aunts (mercenary swordswomen) and his soon-to-be sister-in-law Dulcetta who, although she is generally the TYPE of girl who would fall into this category, actually [[spoiler:kidnapped the man whom everyone thought kidnapped her and hatched a scheme with him to write romance novels. When the main characters find her she is heard screaming for help with the help of a metric ton of PurpleProse and while she is recounting to them the story of what happened runs off to write when the characters paraphrase her cries as "Help me". She thought it was perfect. It also comes to light that her mother, who raised her to be a docile, dependent woman, was a barbarian swordswoman herself and only gave it up because she preferred regular bathing.]]
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* FunctionalMagic - The ''Majyk'' series differentiates Magic (stage illusion) from Majyk (a pseudo-living force that puts the spunk into spells, the kick into cantrips, etc). Magique is a third tool but it's just Majyk from concentrate with lots of preservatives and has a tendency to make with the boomcrashtinkletinkle. The series also differentiates the Majyk used by humans (or cats) from to the Majyk ingrained in species like fairies, Welfies (this 'verse's version of elves), or gods.
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* MagicAmpersand - the game "Palaces & Puppies" is mentioned in ''Majyk by Hook or Crook''
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* {{Magick}} - parodied with "Majyk", and later in the series ''"Magique"''
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous - In the ''Majyk'' series, the local village idiots are named [[Creator/LawrenceWattEvans Lorrenz, Wot, and Evvon]].
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed - Curio, from the ''Majyk'' series, is a parody of Fabio.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous - In the ''Majyk'' series, the local village idiots are named [[Creator/LawrenceWattEvans Lorrenz, Wot, and Evvon]].
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed - Curio, from the ''Majyk'' series, is a parody of Fabio.
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* OurElvesAreBetter - In the ''Majyk'' series, the Welfies are kind of a cross between elf and fairy and are snooty enough for both. In Welfie society, males are tall and willowy with the long blonde hair and the pointy ears but are expert archers and rangers. How they hide in the woods wearing sequin-encrusted pink leotards is anybody's guess. Welfie warriors (a male-only occupation) are the only tribesmen allowed to eat meat besides the elders. Welfie elders communicate only psionically. All Welfies can change their size and do so as a matter of fashion. When they're small, they live in mushrooms and housing shortages are created when tall Welfies are ''a la mode''. Female Welfies are expected to remain subservient and "foot it fleetly upon the merry greensward, ho" whilst gathering flowers and moonbeams and generally being all pretty and stuff. Some of them resent this.
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* SamusIsAGirl - At one point in the ''Majyk'' trilogy, the hero is rescued by a masked swashbuckler who identifies himself only as "a blade for justice." This eventually turns out to be [[spoiler:the hero's wife, disgruntled at being left at home while he's out on an adventure]]. Even after TheReveal, she [[SweetPollyOliver keeps up the masquerade]], finding swashbuckling to be a rewarding career.
* ScrewYourself - While the book doesn't get that far, in ''Magyk by Design'', a cat (talking, magical) named Scandal gets split up into a number of copies by villains (who can control the copies). By the end of the book, he reabsorbs them. ''Except'' for the one representing his female side, who being just a kitten was useless to them and out of the fight. He's accelerating her maturation, for this trope's purpose, with her full encouragement. (They ''are'' the only two cats in this world...)
* ScrewYourself - While the book doesn't get that far, in ''Magyk by Design'', a cat (talking, magical) named Scandal gets split up into a number of copies by villains (who can control the copies). By the end of the book, he reabsorbs them. ''Except'' for the one representing his female side, who being just a kitten was useless to them and out of the fight. He's accelerating her maturation, for this trope's purpose, with her full encouragement. (They ''are'' the only two cats in this world...)
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* ShoutOut - The village idiots in the Majyk trilogy are named [[Creator/LawrenceWattEvans Lorrenz, Wot, and Evvon]], the title characters of ''Death and the Librarian'' were inspired by some Literature/{{Discworld}} figurines she had on her desk (though the story has nothing to do with Literature/{{Discworld}}.
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* ShoutOut - The village idiots in the Majyk trilogy are named [[Creator/LawrenceWattEvans Lorrenz, Wot, and Evvon]], the title characters of ''Death and the Librarian'' were inspired by some Literature/{{Discworld}} figurines she had on her desk (though the story has nothing to do with Literature/{{Discworld}}.Literature/{{Discworld}}).
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* SweetPollyOliver - ''Majyk by Hook or Crook'' and ''Majyk by Design'' feature a [[OurElvesAreDifferent Welfie]] swashbuckler who prefers to be called "A Blade for Justice". [[spoiler:Blade turns out to be Kendar's wife, Mysti, disgruntled at being left at home while he's out on an adventure]].
* TalkingAnimal- A magically-talking cat in both the ''Majyk'' series and ''Wishing Season''
* TalkingAnimal- A magically-talking cat in both the ''Majyk'' series and ''Wishing Season''
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* SweetPollyOliver TalkingAnimal - ''Majyk by Hook or Crook'' and ''Majyk by Design'' feature a [[OurElvesAreDifferent Welfie]] swashbuckler who prefers to be called "A Blade for Justice". [[spoiler:Blade turns out to be Kendar's wife, Mysti, disgruntled at being left at home while he's out on an adventure]].
* TalkingAnimal-A magically-talking cat in both the ''Majyk'' series and ''Wishing Season''
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* TorchesAndPitchforks - ''Majyk by Accident'' has a town that stages these regularly to get around an inconvenient law against dealing with witches. Trying to ''kill'' the witch isn't illegal, after all, and if the witch turns out to be too powerful and has to be appeased with trade goods, that's not the mob's fault. And if they find useful herbal remedies of completely unknown origin placed near her cottage, well, it must be their lucky day.
* TrueLovesKiss - In ''Majyk By Design'', the magician-protagonist's estranged wife asks him to turn ''himself'' into a frog, so she can use this to prove that she still loves him.
* UnholyMatrimony - Bibok and Calosta in ''Majyk By Design''.
* TrueLovesKiss - In ''Majyk By Design'', the magician-protagonist's estranged wife asks him to turn ''himself'' into a frog, so she can use this to prove that she still loves him.
* UnholyMatrimony - Bibok and Calosta in ''Majyk By Design''.
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* WorldShapes - The world in the ''Majyk'' trilogy keeps changing its shape, due to being over-saturated with magic. At present it looks like a Moebius strip.
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* AccidentalMarriage - About halfway through ''Majyk by Accident'', the protagonist is saddled with a Welfin wife when he takes her hand to go to dinner. She's pleased because she loathes the Welfin way of life, the other Welfies are pleased because it means they can make demands of the protagonist, and nobody really cares what he thinks of it.
* {{Bridezilla}} - "The Wedding of Wylda Serene" starts with the narrator talking about his sister's bridezilla antics, which eventually leads to her being forced to ask one of the decorators to be a bridesmaid, thus kicking off the backstory. People later start to suspect that the title character is like this because she insists on having the wedding at the Club, but it later turns out that she was put up to it by her mother, who insisted that Wylda get the wedding that she never did.
* CatsHaveNineLives - A recurring plot point in the ''Majyk'' books. At one point, a cat loses half a life, the other half of which gets returned in the form of a kitten.
* ChekhovMIA - In the ''Gnome Man's Land'' series, the father of the main character went out for a ''Sunday Times'' and never came back. It was later revealed that he'd spent the six years he'd been gone [[spoiler:as the Champion of the Fey]].
* CatsHaveNineLives - A recurring plot point in the ''Majyk'' books. At one point, a cat loses half a life, the other half of which gets returned in the form of a kitten.
* ChekhovMIA - In the ''Gnome Man's Land'' series, the father of the main character went out for a ''Sunday Times'' and never came back. It was later revealed that he'd spent the six years he'd been gone [[spoiler:as the Champion of the Fey]].
* DamselInDistress - Played with multiple ways in the ''Majyk'' trilogy.
** Mysti in ''Majyk by Accident'', whose only source of distress is her [[OurElvesAreDifferent Welfin]] relatives and who [[spoiler:bullies Kendar into marrying her so she can leave the "jolly greensward ho" and stop skipping around like an idiot and her only REAL distress is when the curse hits her after Kendar refuses to follow through with a promise he made during the wedding vows.]]
** In ''Majyk by Hook or Crook'', we have not only Mysti [[spoiler:who has become the swashbuckler with a secret identity, A Blade for Justice (and prefers to be referred to by his/her full name)]], but we also have Anisella, who wears nothing but chain mail, has a black belt in ''helo kiti'' and a green barette in ''po kipsi'', and crumples like a [=McDonalds=] napkin when even barely brushed by [[spoiler:wool... or any other fabric.]]
** ''Majyk by Design'' has a male example in Prince Boffin [[spoiler:who has been turned into a toad]] but also a parody in Kendar's aunts (mercenary swordswomen) and his soon-to-be sister-in-law Dulcetta who, although she is generally the TYPE of girl who would fall into this category, actually [[spoiler:kidnapped the man whom everyone thought kidnapped her and hatched a scheme with him to write romance novels. When the main characters find her she is heard screaming for help with the help of a metric ton of PurpleProse and while she is recounting to them the story of what happened runs off to write when the characters paraphrase her cries as "Help me". She thought it was perfect. It also comes to light that her mother, who raised her to be a docile, dependent woman, was a barbarian swordswoman herself and only gave it up because she preferred regular bathing.]]
** Mysti in ''Majyk by Accident'', whose only source of distress is her [[OurElvesAreDifferent Welfin]] relatives and who [[spoiler:bullies Kendar into marrying her so she can leave the "jolly greensward ho" and stop skipping around like an idiot and her only REAL distress is when the curse hits her after Kendar refuses to follow through with a promise he made during the wedding vows.]]
** In ''Majyk by Hook or Crook'', we have not only Mysti [[spoiler:who has become the swashbuckler with a secret identity, A Blade for Justice (and prefers to be referred to by his/her full name)]], but we also have Anisella, who wears nothing but chain mail, has a black belt in ''helo kiti'' and a green barette in ''po kipsi'', and crumples like a [=McDonalds=] napkin when even barely brushed by [[spoiler:wool... or any other fabric.]]
** ''Majyk by Design'' has a male example in Prince Boffin [[spoiler:who has been turned into a toad]] but also a parody in Kendar's aunts (mercenary swordswomen) and his soon-to-be sister-in-law Dulcetta who, although she is generally the TYPE of girl who would fall into this category, actually [[spoiler:kidnapped the man whom everyone thought kidnapped her and hatched a scheme with him to write romance novels. When the main characters find her she is heard screaming for help with the help of a metric ton of PurpleProse and while she is recounting to them the story of what happened runs off to write when the characters paraphrase her cries as "Help me". She thought it was perfect. It also comes to light that her mother, who raised her to be a docile, dependent woman, was a barbarian swordswoman herself and only gave it up because she preferred regular bathing.]]
* DungeonBypass - In ''Elf Defense'', our heroes are stuck in a [[MobileMaze magical semi-sentient hedgemaze]], which has just separated the college professor being pursued by a dragon from the elven prince who actually knows how to ''fight'' a dragon. No problem: the Welsh au pair calmly picks up a sword and proceeds to chop her way through the first hedge in the way. The maze, not being stupid, immediately opens a clear path for her.
* FantasticFragility - In ''Elf Defense'', an elf explains that "only the Infinite is infinite" -- which means anything ''not'' the Infinite has to have a weakness. (Specifically in this case, an elven vulnerability to Latin.)
* FreakyFridayFlip - Happens to two of the protagonists of ''Harpy High''; since one of them has a physically abusive father, the other one acquires a little more understanding than he wanted.
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* GayBarReveal - in ''Demon Blues''.
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* FunctionalMagic - The ''Majyk'' series differentiates Magic (stage illusion) from Majyk (a pseudo-living force that puts the spunk into spells, the kick into cantrips, etc). Magique is a third tool but it's just Majyk from concentrate with lots of preservatives and has a tendency to make with the boomcrashtinkletinkle. The series also differentiates the Majyk used by humans (or cats) from to the Majyk ingrained in species like fairies, Welfies (this 'verse's version of elves), or gods.
* GayBarReveal -in In ''Demon Blues''.Blues'', one of the straight characters stumbles into a gay bar crying about the girl he can't get, proceeds to get so drunk he doesn't catch on, and when the bartender is worried about him, gets taken home by a chivalrous time-traveling UsefulNotes/RichardTheLionHeart. He pieces it all together the next morning.
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* HiddenBackupPrinceHiddenBackupPrince - In ''Split Heirs'', the King's people believe that twins are a sign of infidelity, so when Queen Artemisia gives birth to triplets, she gives two of them to a nurse who gives them to two other families to raise as commoners. The rest of the book is a hilarious deconstruction of PrinceAndPauper tropes, especially since she accidentally gave both boys to the nurse forcing her to raise the girl as the prince.
* HistoricalFantasy - ''Child of the Eagle''. Venus appears to Marcus Brutus and convinces him to thwart the assassination of Julius Caesar.
* HistoricalFantasy - ''Child of the Eagle''. Venus appears to Marcus Brutus and convinces him to thwart the assassination of Julius Caesar.
* HouseFey - In the ''Gnome Man's Land'' series, Tim Desmond's mother's Russian ancestry causes a bannik (a household domestic sprite) to move in, which ends up driving her crazy with its obsessive cleanliness.
* InSpiteOfANail - In ''Druid's Blood'', magic works, so powerfully that the Druids stopped the Roman invasion and (presumably) any later invasions and kept Britain Celtic, but by the 19th Century London and the British look pretty much the same apart from details -- teleported scrolls instead of telegrams, Beltane fires in Trafalgar Square (they did fight Napoleon, he was a Gaulish Druid), Queen Victoria as a witch, etc. But this is strictly RuleOfFunny, since the point is to set a Franchise/SherlockHolmes adventure in a Celtic fantasy world.
* InSpiteOfANail - In ''Druid's Blood'', magic works, so powerfully that the Druids stopped the Roman invasion and (presumably) any later invasions and kept Britain Celtic, but by the 19th Century London and the British look pretty much the same apart from details -- teleported scrolls instead of telegrams, Beltane fires in Trafalgar Square (they did fight Napoleon, he was a Gaulish Druid), Queen Victoria as a witch, etc. But this is strictly RuleOfFunny, since the point is to set a Franchise/SherlockHolmes adventure in a Celtic fantasy world.
* LawyerFriendlyCameo - Towards the end of ''Harpy High'', the main character's mother starts dating Dr. Faustus and drawing a comic strip called ''Mr. Mephisto'' which, in the words of the main character's best friend, is about "this wizard and this demon and they go around with this [[ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} fat orange kitten]] that thinks all these funny things and eats lasagna and--"
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous - In the ''Majyk'' series, the local village idiots are named [[Creator/LawrenceWattEvans Lorrenz, Wot, and Evvon]].
* OnlyICanKillHim - In ''The Sherwood Game'', a programmer creates a VR Robin Hood game, and creates a specific rule that his character is the only one who can kill the Sheriff of Nottingham. He comes to regret this when he has to play the game [[YourMindMakesItReal with the safeties off]].
* OurElvesAreBetter - In the ''Majyk'' series, the Welfies are kind of a cross between elf and fairy and are snooty enough for both. In Welfie society, males are tall and willowy with the long blonde hair and the pointy ears but are expert archers and rangers. How they hide in the woods wearing sequin-encrusted pink leotards is anybody's guess. Welfie warriors (a male-only occupation) are the only tribesmen allowed to eat meat besides the elders. Welfie elders communicate only psionically. All Welfies can change their size and do so as a matter of fashion. When they're small, they live in mushrooms and housing shortages are created when tall Welfies are ''a la mode''. Female Welfies are expected to remain subservient and "foot it fleetly upon the merry greensward, ho" whilst gathering flowers and moonbeams and generally being all pretty and stuff. Some of them resent this.
* PantheonSitcom - ''Temping Fate'' has gods and anthropomorphic personifications (e.g. the Fates) like this, with rebellious teenage demigods, curmudgeonly elder gods, and so on.
* PokeThePoodle - In ''Demon Blues'', the hero is a college kid who for various reasons (like trying to rescue his roommate and impress his succubus girlfriend) is looking to acquire demonic magical power, which can only be earned through acts of evil. So he spends much of the book hunting for evil to do that won't, you know, ''hurt'' anybody...
* ThePowerOfRock - In ''Unicorn U.'', the apocalypse is averted with the power of samba.
* PrinceAndPauper - Parodied and subverted all to heck in ''Split Heirs'', in which there are ''two'' paupers and the prince is actually a girl raised as a boy.
* PantheonSitcom - ''Temping Fate'' has gods and anthropomorphic personifications (e.g. the Fates) like this, with rebellious teenage demigods, curmudgeonly elder gods, and so on.
* PokeThePoodle - In ''Demon Blues'', the hero is a college kid who for various reasons (like trying to rescue his roommate and impress his succubus girlfriend) is looking to acquire demonic magical power, which can only be earned through acts of evil. So he spends much of the book hunting for evil to do that won't, you know, ''hurt'' anybody...
* ThePowerOfRock - In ''Unicorn U.'', the apocalypse is averted with the power of samba.
* PrinceAndPauper - Parodied and subverted all to heck in ''Split Heirs'', in which there are ''two'' paupers and the prince is actually a girl raised as a boy.
* RaisedAsTheOppositeGender - ''Split Heirs'' tells the story of a queen who gives birth to triplets, two boys and a girl. However, her husband's people have the belief that multiple births stem from infidelity, so she asks her loyal retainer to take away the daughter and youngest son to be raised elsewhere, so the king would never find out about the triplets' birth. Alas, the retainer messes up, and take the two boys instead. By the time the queen discovers the mistake, it is too late, and she is forced to raise her daughter as a prince, and heir to the throne.
* RiddleOfTheSphinx -
** The riddle is the reason that the members of the Club in "The Wedding of Wylda Serene" accepted the sphinx that one of their members brought, figuring that everyone knew the answer, so no one would get eaten. Then she learned some new ones...
** In ''Sphynxes Wild'', the sphinx--currently operating as a Greek heiress in Atlantic City--is the villain, and not until the hero finally answers her new riddle can she be defeated.
* RiddleOfTheSphinx -
** The riddle is the reason that the members of the Club in "The Wedding of Wylda Serene" accepted the sphinx that one of their members brought, figuring that everyone knew the answer, so no one would get eaten. Then she learned some new ones...
** In ''Sphynxes Wild'', the sphinx--currently operating as a Greek heiress in Atlantic City--is the villain, and not until the hero finally answers her new riddle can she be defeated.
* SamusIsAGirl - At one point in the ''Majyk'' trilogy, the hero is rescued by a masked swashbuckler who identifies himself only as "a blade for justice." This eventually turns out to be [[spoiler:the hero's wife, disgruntled at being left at home while he's out on an adventure]]. Even after TheReveal, she [[SweetPollyOliver keeps up the masquerade]], finding swashbuckling to be a rewarding career.
* ScrewYourself - While the book doesn't get that far, in ''Magyk by Design'', a cat (talking, magical) named Scandal gets split up into a number of copies by villains (who can control the copies). By the end of the book, he reabsorbs them. ''Except'' for the one representing his female side, who being just a kitten was useless to them and out of the fight. He's accelerating her maturation, for this trope's purpose, with her full encouragement. (They ''are'' the only two cats in this world...)
* ScrewYourself - While the book doesn't get that far, in ''Magyk by Design'', a cat (talking, magical) named Scandal gets split up into a number of copies by villains (who can control the copies). By the end of the book, he reabsorbs them. ''Except'' for the one representing his female side, who being just a kitten was useless to them and out of the fight. He's accelerating her maturation, for this trope's purpose, with her full encouragement. (They ''are'' the only two cats in this world...)
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* SweetPollyOliver - ''Majyk by Hook or Crook'' and ''Majyk by Design'' feature a few, often overlapping with ActionGirl.[[OurElvesAreDifferent Welfie]] swashbuckler who prefers to be called "A Blade for Justice". [[spoiler:Blade turns out to be Kendar's wife, Mysti, disgruntled at being left at home while he's out on an adventure]].
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* TorchesAndPitchforks - ''Majyk by Accident'' has a town that stages these regularly to get around an inconvenient law against dealing with witches. Trying to ''kill'' the witch isn't illegal, after all, and if the witch turns out to be too powerful and has to be appeased with trade goods, that's not the mob's fault. And if they find useful herbal remedies of completely unknown origin placed near her cottage, well, it must be their lucky day.
* TrueLovesKiss - In ''Majyk By Design'', the magician-protagonist's estranged wife asks him to turn ''himself'' into a frog, so she can use this to prove that she still loves him.
* UnholyMatrimony - Bibok and Calosta in ''Majyk By Design''.
* TrueLovesKiss - In ''Majyk By Design'', the magician-protagonist's estranged wife asks him to turn ''himself'' into a frog, so she can use this to prove that she still loves him.
* UnholyMatrimony - Bibok and Calosta in ''Majyk By Design''.
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* VillainOverForDinner - In ''Elf Defense'', protagonist divorce lawyer Sandra Horowitz finds her mother having lunch with elven king Kelerison (whose ex-wife she's representing), who immediately has worked up all of her mom's JewishMother guilt against her.
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* {{Wishplosion}} - In the second half of ''Wishing Season'', a Jinn will be free to wreak havoc as soon as the hero uses his half-wish (he only gets half of what is stated in the wish), so he wishes for the Jinn to be free. This ends up with the Jinn being free of the spell that made him grant wishes, but married to a very nagging demoness.
* WorldShapes - The world in the ''Majyk'' trilogy keeps changing its shape, due to being over-saturated with magic. At present it looks like a Moebius strip.
* YiddishAsASecondLanguage - ''Elf Defense'' includes among its minor characters a classic Tolkien/Shakespeare-style elf maiden whose speech is unexpectedly punctuated with the occasional bit of Yiddish. When called on it, she abashedly admits to dating a dybbuk (a possessing demon of Jewish myth).
* YoungFutureFamousPeople - The ''Princesses of Myth'' series, about historical or semihistorical (or straight-up mythical) princesses of history during their childhood and young adulthood. So far she has taken on Helen of Troy, Nefertiti of Egypt, Himiko of Yamatai/Japan, and Maeve of Connacht/Ireland.
* WorldShapes - The world in the ''Majyk'' trilogy keeps changing its shape, due to being over-saturated with magic. At present it looks like a Moebius strip.
* YiddishAsASecondLanguage - ''Elf Defense'' includes among its minor characters a classic Tolkien/Shakespeare-style elf maiden whose speech is unexpectedly punctuated with the occasional bit of Yiddish. When called on it, she abashedly admits to dating a dybbuk (a possessing demon of Jewish myth).
* YoungFutureFamousPeople - The ''Princesses of Myth'' series, about historical or semihistorical (or straight-up mythical) princesses of history during their childhood and young adulthood. So far she has taken on Helen of Troy, Nefertiti of Egypt, Himiko of Yamatai/Japan, and Maeve of Connacht/Ireland.
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* PunBasedTitle - later books in the ''ChicksInChainmail'' series, including ''Chicks 'n Chained Males'', ''The Chick Is In The Mail'' and ''Turn The Other Chick''. ''New York by Knight'', ''Elf Defense'' ''Hooray for Hellywood'', ''Split Heirs''
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Esther Friesner (also known as Esther M. Friesner) is a fantasy author best known for her humorous works, though she spans the SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness. Friesner was named Outstanding New Fantasy Writer by Romantic Times in 1986. She won the Skylark Award in 1994. She has been nominated a number of times for the HugoAward and NebulaAward, UsefulNotes/NebulaAward, winning the NebulaAward Nebula Award for Best Short Story in 1995 and 1996 for, respectively, "Death and the Librarian" and "A Birth Day". She has also edited a large number of anthologies, perhaps most famously the ''Literature/ChicksInChainmail'' series.
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The HistoricalFiction series ''Princesses of Myth'' [[http://princessesofmyth.com/]][[note]]The heroines are, in order: Princess Helen of Troy (''Nobody's Princess/Nobody's Prize''); Queen Nefertiti of Egypt (''Sphinx's Princess/Sphinx's Queen''); Queen Himiko of Yamataikoku (Japan) (''Spirit's Princess/Spirit's Chosen''); and Queen Maeve of Connacht (Ireland) (''Deception's Princess/Deception's Pawn'').[[/note]]
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The HistoricalFiction series ''Princesses of Myth'' [[http://princessesofmyth.com/]][[note]]The heroines are, in order, order: Helen of Troy, Troy (''Nobody's Princess/Nobody's Prize''); Queen Nefertiti of Egypt, Egypt (''Sphinx's Princess/Sphinx's Queen''); Queen Himiko of Yamataikoku (Japan), (Japan) (''Spirit's Princess/Spirit's Chosen''); and Maeve of Connacht (Ireland).(Ireland) (''Deception's Princess/Deception's Pawn'').[[/note]]
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Esther Friesner (also known as Esther M. Friesner) is a fantasy author best known for her humorous works, though she spans the SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness. Friesner was named Outstanding New Fantasy Writer by Romantic Times in 1986. She won the Skylark Award in 1994. She has been nominated a number of times for the HugoAward and NebulaAward, winning the NebulaAward for Best Short Story in 1995 and 1996 for, respectively, "Death and the Librarian" and "A Birth Day". She has also edited a large number of anthologies, perhaps most famously the ''ChicksInChainmail'' ''Literature/ChicksInChainmail'' series.
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* {{Deconstruction}} - a number of her ''Chicks In Chainmail'' ''ChicksInChainmail'' stories deconstruct the genre comically. ''Split Heirs'' deconstructs ''Literature/ThePrinceAndThePauper'' stories. All Genie tropes in ''Wishing Season''.
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* PunBasedTitle - later books in the ''Chicks In Chainmail'' series, including ''Chicks 'n Chained Males'', ''The Chick Is In The Mail'' and ''Turn The Other Chick''. ''New York by Knight'', ''Elf Defense'' ''Hooray for Hellywood'', ''Split Heirs''
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* PunBasedTitle - later books in the ''Chicks In Chainmail'' ''ChicksInChainmail'' series, including ''Chicks 'n Chained Males'', ''The Chick Is In The Mail'' and ''Turn The Other Chick''. ''New York by Knight'', ''Elf Defense'' ''Hooray for Hellywood'', ''Split Heirs''
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* ShoutOut - The village idiots in the Majyk trilogy are named [[LawrenceWattEvans Lorrenz, Wot, and Evvon]], the title characters of ''Death and the Librarian'' were inspired by some Literature/{{Discworld}} figurines she had on her desk (though the story has nothing to do with Literature/{{Discworld}}.
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Esther Friesner (also known as Esther M. Friesner) is a fantasy author best known for her humorous works, though she spans the SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness. Friesner was named Outstanding New Fantasy Writer by Romantic Times in 1986. She won the Skylark Award in 1994. She has been nominated a number of times for the HugoAward and NebulaAward, winning the NebulaAward for Best Short Story in 1995 and 1996 for, respectively, "Death and the Librarian" and "A Birth Day". She has also edited a large number of anthologies, perhaps most famously the ''Chicks In Chainmail'' series.
She lives in Connecticut with her husband, two children, two rambunctious cats, and a fluctuating population of hamsters.
Her website can be found [[http://www.sff.net/people/e.friesner/ here]].
Her books include:
* Chronicles of the Twelve Kingdoms
** ''Mustapha and His Wise Dog'', 1985
** ''Spells of Mortal Weaving'', 1986
** ''The Witchwood Cradle'', 1987
** ''The Water King's Laughter'', 1989
* Demons Trilogy
** ''Here Be Demons'', 1988
** ''Demon Blues'', 1989
** ''Hooray For Hellywood'', 1990
* New York by Knight Trilogy
** ''New York by Knight'', 1986
** ''Elf Defense'', 1988
** ''Sphynxes Wild'', 1989
* Gnome Man's Land Trilogy
** ''Gnome Man's Land'', 1991
** ''Harpy High'', 1991
** ''Unicorn U'', 1992
* Majyk Trilogy
** ''Majyk by Accident'', 1993
** ''Majyk by Hook Or Crook'', 1994
** ''Majyk by Design'', 1995
* Becca of Wiserways
** ''The Psalms Of Herod'', 1996
** ''The Sword Of Mary'', 1996
ExpandedUniverse novels
* Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch: ''Prisoner of Cabin 13'' (Book 11 of series)
* Franchise/StarTrek Universe:
** ''To Storm Heaven'' (Dec 1997, Star Trek: The Next Generation Numbered series, Book 46)
** ''Warchild''(Sep 1994, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine series, Book 7)
* ''Film/MenInBlack II'' ({{Novelization}}), 2002
The HistoricalFiction series ''Princesses of Myth'' [[http://princessesofmyth.com/]]
* ''Nobody's Princess'', 2007
* ''Nobody's Prize'', 2008
* ''Sphinx's Princess'', 2009
* ''Sphinx's Queen'', 2010
* ''Spirit's Princess'', publication date set for April 2012
Non-series novels
* ''Harlot's Ruse'', 1986
* ''The Silver Mountain'', 1986
* ''Druid's Blood'', 1988
* ''Yesterday We Saw Mermaids'', 1992
* ''Split Heirs'' (with [[LawrenceWattEvans Lawrence Watt-Evans]]), 1993
* ''Wishing Season'', 1993
* ''The Sherwood Game'', 1995
* ''Child of the Eagle'', 1996
* ''Playing with Fire'', 1997
* ''E.Godz'' (with Robert Asprin), 2003
* ''Temping Fate'', 2006
* ''Threads and Flames'', 2010
Short Story Collections
* ''It's Been Fun''
* ''Up The Wall & Other Tales of KingArthur and His Knights''
* ''Death and the Librarian and Other Stories''
Antholgies edited
* ''Alien Pregnant by Elvis!''
* Chicks in Chainmail
** ''Chicks in Chainmail''
** ''Did You Say Chicks?!''
** ''Chicks 'n Chained Males''
** ''The Chick is in the Mail''
** ''Turn the Other Chick''
* Witches
** ''Witch Way to the Mall''
** ''Strip Maul''
* Vampires
** ''Blood Muse''
** ''Fangs for the Mammaries''
!! Tropes applying to her work include:
* ActionGirl - ''Chicks In Chainmail'' series, several characters in the ''Majyk'' series, Becca eventually becomes this in ''The Sword of Mary''
* AfterTheEnd - Implied to be the setting of the ''Becca of Wiserways'' books.
* AlternateUniverse - several examples.
* ChainmailBikini - parodied in the ''Chicks In Chainmail'' series
* ChristopherColumbus - ''Yesterday We Saw Mermaids''
* CorruptCorporateExecutive - in ''The Sherwood Game''.
* {{Deconstruction}} - a number of her ''Chicks In Chainmail'' stories deconstruct the genre comically. ''Split Heirs'' deconstructs ''ThePrinceAndThePauper'' stories. All Genie tropes in ''Wishing Season''.
* EvenEvilHasStandards - A man offered his four year old daughter to the dragon in ''New York By Knight'', which proved to be a bad idea. This dragon was far more traditional about its sacrifices.
* ForbiddenZone - Becca of Wiserways series.
* FreeingTheGenie - in ''Wishing Season''
* GayBarReveal - in ''Demon Blues''.
* GoodOldWays - Becca of Wiserways.
* HiddenBackupPrince
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold - Megan, the protagonist of ''Harlot's Ruse''.
* JackassGenie - in ''Wishing Season''
* MagicAmpersand - the game "Palaces & Puppies" is mentioned in ''Majyk by Hook or Crook''
* {{Magick}} - parodied with "Majyk", and later in the series ''"Magique"''
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed - Curio, from the ''Majyk'' series, is a parody of Fabio.
* TheNudifier - the dragon from ''NewYorkByKnight'' causes an intended victim's clothes to vanish in order for her to be properly presented as an offering.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent - The ''Demon'' Trilogy.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent - The ''Demon'' Trilogy.
* PunBasedTitle - later books in the ''Chicks In Chainmail'' series, including ''Chicks 'n Chained Males'', ''The Chick Is In The Mail'' and ''Turn The Other Chick''. ''New York by Knight'', ''Elf Defense'' ''Hooray for Hellywood'', ''Split Heirs''
* RobinHood - ''The Sherwood Game'' is about a {{Cyberspace}} game featuring the Robin Hood characters; it gets complicated when InstantAIJustAddWater kicks in. (Though things don't get ''really'' bad until the CorruptCorporateExecutive shows up.)
* SexBot - The RobinHood program in ''The Sherwood Game'' gets downloaded into a pleasure android.
* ShoutOut - The village idiots in the Majyk trilogy are named [[LawrenceWattEvans Lorrenz, Wot, and Evvon]], the title characters of ''Death and the Librarian'' were inspired by some Literature/{{Discworld}} figurines she had on her desk (though the story has nothing to do with Literature/{{Discworld}}.
* SinisterMinister - played for comedy in ''Hooray for Hellywood'', televangelist "Sometime" Joseph Lee is in fact the demon Raleel.
* SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness: from the very funny, pun-laden ''Majyk'' series to the post-apocalyptic CrapsackWorld of ''Becca of Wiserways''.
* SterilityPlague - In Becca of Wiserways, some sort of unspecified DepopulationBomb in the past has made it so that women only get their periods once per ''year''.
* SweetPollyOliver - a few, often overlapping with ActionGirl.
* TalkingAnimal- A magically-talking cat in both the ''Majyk'' series and ''Wishing Season''
* TeenageWasteland - Becca of Wiserways encounters one.
* TheMagicGoesAway - ''Yesterday We Saw Mermaids''
* UrbanFantasy - The ''New York By Knight'' trilogy, ''Demon'' Trilogy and ''Gnome Man's Land'' Trilogy, ''The Sherwood Game''
* {{Whatevermancy}} - at conventions she offers demonstrations of Cheeblemancy, the art of divination by asking a stuffed hamster.
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She lives in Connecticut with her husband, two children, two rambunctious cats, and a fluctuating population of hamsters.
Her website can be found [[http://www.sff.net/people/e.friesner/ here]].
Her books include:
* Chronicles of the Twelve Kingdoms
** ''Mustapha and His Wise Dog'', 1985
** ''Spells of Mortal Weaving'', 1986
** ''The Witchwood Cradle'', 1987
** ''The Water King's Laughter'', 1989
* Demons Trilogy
** ''Here Be Demons'', 1988
** ''Demon Blues'', 1989
** ''Hooray For Hellywood'', 1990
* New York by Knight Trilogy
** ''New York by Knight'', 1986
** ''Elf Defense'', 1988
** ''Sphynxes Wild'', 1989
* Gnome Man's Land Trilogy
** ''Gnome Man's Land'', 1991
** ''Harpy High'', 1991
** ''Unicorn U'', 1992
* Majyk Trilogy
** ''Majyk by Accident'', 1993
** ''Majyk by Hook Or Crook'', 1994
** ''Majyk by Design'', 1995
* Becca of Wiserways
** ''The Psalms Of Herod'', 1996
** ''The Sword Of Mary'', 1996
ExpandedUniverse novels
* Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch: ''Prisoner of Cabin 13'' (Book 11 of series)
* Franchise/StarTrek Universe:
** ''To Storm Heaven'' (Dec 1997, Star Trek: The Next Generation Numbered series, Book 46)
** ''Warchild''(Sep 1994, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine series, Book 7)
* ''Film/MenInBlack II'' ({{Novelization}}), 2002
The HistoricalFiction series ''Princesses of Myth'' [[http://princessesofmyth.com/]]
* ''Nobody's Princess'', 2007
* ''Nobody's Prize'', 2008
* ''Sphinx's Princess'', 2009
* ''Sphinx's Queen'', 2010
* ''Spirit's Princess'', publication date set for April 2012
Non-series novels
* ''Harlot's Ruse'', 1986
* ''The Silver Mountain'', 1986
* ''Druid's Blood'', 1988
* ''Yesterday We Saw Mermaids'', 1992
* ''Split Heirs'' (with [[LawrenceWattEvans Lawrence Watt-Evans]]), 1993
* ''Wishing Season'', 1993
* ''The Sherwood Game'', 1995
* ''Child of the Eagle'', 1996
* ''Playing with Fire'', 1997
* ''E.Godz'' (with Robert Asprin), 2003
* ''Temping Fate'', 2006
* ''Threads and Flames'', 2010
Short Story Collections
* ''It's Been Fun''
* ''Up The Wall & Other Tales of KingArthur and His Knights''
* ''Death and the Librarian and Other Stories''
Antholgies edited
* ''Alien Pregnant by Elvis!''
* Chicks in Chainmail
** ''Chicks in Chainmail''
** ''Did You Say Chicks?!''
** ''Chicks 'n Chained Males''
** ''The Chick is in the Mail''
** ''Turn the Other Chick''
* Witches
** ''Witch Way to the Mall''
** ''Strip Maul''
* Vampires
** ''Blood Muse''
** ''Fangs for the Mammaries''
!! Tropes applying to her work include:
* ActionGirl - ''Chicks In Chainmail'' series, several characters in the ''Majyk'' series, Becca eventually becomes this in ''The Sword of Mary''
* AfterTheEnd - Implied to be the setting of the ''Becca of Wiserways'' books.
* AlternateUniverse - several examples.
* ChainmailBikini - parodied in the ''Chicks In Chainmail'' series
* ChristopherColumbus - ''Yesterday We Saw Mermaids''
* CorruptCorporateExecutive - in ''The Sherwood Game''.
* {{Deconstruction}} - a number of her ''Chicks In Chainmail'' stories deconstruct the genre comically. ''Split Heirs'' deconstructs ''ThePrinceAndThePauper'' stories. All Genie tropes in ''Wishing Season''.
* EvenEvilHasStandards - A man offered his four year old daughter to the dragon in ''New York By Knight'', which proved to be a bad idea. This dragon was far more traditional about its sacrifices.
* ForbiddenZone - Becca of Wiserways series.
* FreeingTheGenie - in ''Wishing Season''
* GayBarReveal - in ''Demon Blues''.
* GoodOldWays - Becca of Wiserways.
* HiddenBackupPrince
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold - Megan, the protagonist of ''Harlot's Ruse''.
* JackassGenie - in ''Wishing Season''
* MagicAmpersand - the game "Palaces & Puppies" is mentioned in ''Majyk by Hook or Crook''
* {{Magick}} - parodied with "Majyk", and later in the series ''"Magique"''
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed - Curio, from the ''Majyk'' series, is a parody of Fabio.
* TheNudifier - the dragon from ''NewYorkByKnight'' causes an intended victim's clothes to vanish in order for her to be properly presented as an offering.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent - The ''Demon'' Trilogy.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent - The ''Demon'' Trilogy.
* PunBasedTitle - later books in the ''Chicks In Chainmail'' series, including ''Chicks 'n Chained Males'', ''The Chick Is In The Mail'' and ''Turn The Other Chick''. ''New York by Knight'', ''Elf Defense'' ''Hooray for Hellywood'', ''Split Heirs''
* RobinHood - ''The Sherwood Game'' is about a {{Cyberspace}} game featuring the Robin Hood characters; it gets complicated when InstantAIJustAddWater kicks in. (Though things don't get ''really'' bad until the CorruptCorporateExecutive shows up.)
* SexBot - The RobinHood program in ''The Sherwood Game'' gets downloaded into a pleasure android.
* ShoutOut - The village idiots in the Majyk trilogy are named [[LawrenceWattEvans Lorrenz, Wot, and Evvon]], the title characters of ''Death and the Librarian'' were inspired by some Literature/{{Discworld}} figurines she had on her desk (though the story has nothing to do with Literature/{{Discworld}}.
* SinisterMinister - played for comedy in ''Hooray for Hellywood'', televangelist "Sometime" Joseph Lee is in fact the demon Raleel.
* SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness: from the very funny, pun-laden ''Majyk'' series to the post-apocalyptic CrapsackWorld of ''Becca of Wiserways''.
* SterilityPlague - In Becca of Wiserways, some sort of unspecified DepopulationBomb in the past has made it so that women only get their periods once per ''year''.
* SweetPollyOliver - a few, often overlapping with ActionGirl.
* TalkingAnimal- A magically-talking cat in both the ''Majyk'' series and ''Wishing Season''
* TeenageWasteland - Becca of Wiserways encounters one.
* TheMagicGoesAway - ''Yesterday We Saw Mermaids''
* UrbanFantasy - The ''New York By Knight'' trilogy, ''Demon'' Trilogy and ''Gnome Man's Land'' Trilogy, ''The Sherwood Game''
* {{Whatevermancy}} - at conventions she offers demonstrations of Cheeblemancy, the art of divination by asking a stuffed hamster.
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