History Creator / TanyaHuff

* AuthorAppeal: Nearly every book she writes has people being freely sexually active with both sexes with little consequence (EternalSexualFreedom or FreeLoveFuture, depending on the setting). She's an openly lesbian writer (married to fellow spec fic writer Fiona Patton) who's featured numerous LGBT+ characters in her works, portraying societies with [[NonHeteronormativeSociety no stigma against them usually]]. They're heavily bisexuals, as stated above, to the point of EveryoneIsBi sometimes, but she's also written gays, lesbians and asexuals.

* GenderIsNoObject: Her work usually features societies with no social barriers regarding gender, and sometimes [[GenderMisdirection misleads the reader briefly on a character's gender]] due to the role they're in (e.g. "guards" that turn out to be women). This includes not simply [[ActionGirl many female soldiers]], but also ones who hold the military's highest ranks as well, for instance a marshal.

* AuthorAppeal: Nearly every book she writes has people being freely sexually active with both sexes with little consequence (EternalSexualFreedom or FreeLoveFuture, depending on the setting).

** In Huff's short story "A Woman's Work", the {{Evil Over|lord}}lady builds hospitals and schools for her citizens, as this makes her popular and less likely to be assassinated. It also enables her to influence what the kids are taught, and who gets to be healed.

* ''Literature/AWomansWork''

* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: In Tanya Huff's short story ''A Woman's Work'', Queen Arrabel has two princesses of a recently conquered kingdom in front of her. She tells the dark-haired one that the young woman ''will'' marry the queen's son and the two will rule the conquered kingdom together. The woman flat refuses, and gets a blade to the neck for her trouble. The queen then turns to the blond princess, who seems profoundly unsurprised by her sister's death, and presents her the same offer; the young woman shrugs and takes it. The queen later states [[spoiler:she doesn't expect her son to live long after the princess gives birth. She's perfectly fine with that; the princess's track record during the invasion proves she is a [[TheWrongfulHeirToTheThrone far more competent heir.]]]]

* TheEmpire: Creator/TanyaHuff's short story "A Woman's Work" showed a well-maintained, organized and competently led empire, all thanks to a Queen who very clearly has the EvilOverlordList memorized (the story plays it for a comedy, with some direct references to the list)

* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Queen Arrabel from Creator/TanyaHuff's "A Woman's Work" is highly competent, beloved by her people, treats her staff well... and is utterly ruthless to her enemies (and her friends, if she had any). She's the type of person who wears understated, sensible clothing while her son wears flashy, extravagant uniforms because she knows who assassins would instinctively aim at. And then she marries him off to a neighbouring country's princess (sole survivor of the royal family), the Queen expecting that the princess will quickly produce an heir, following which the prince is likely to have a fatal accident. Not that she minds, as she thinks the princess has the right stuff to inherit the job of Queen.
* PragmaticVillainy: Queen Arrabelle in ''A Woman's Work'' by Creator/TanyaHuff is ruthless enough to encourage her not-very-bright son to wear [[BlingOfWar highly decorated bright uniforms]] while she wears something more subdued (because who will an assassin instinctively aim at?) but makes sure her people are educated (at government schools with an approved curriculum), employed, have a good medical system, knows many of her troops by name and rewards them for good work and initiative, and when she conquers a new territory has most of the defeated nobles' property distributed among the lower classes of the conquered country and immediately starts infrastructure programs to help improve their lives. She even allows the odd dissident to make public speeches against her reign, giving her an excuse to remind the "oppressed citizens" that she's made their lives much better. And letting ''them'' beat up the troublemaker. She even encourages this -in the story itself [[spoiler:one of these dissidents is an actress in her pay]]. Giving a speech in front of a hospital.
* SignedUpForTheDental: In the short story ''A Woman's Work'' by Creator/TanyaHuff, the evil queen is genre-savvy and provides numerous health benefits for her obedient subjects to invoke this trope.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: The Queen in the short story "A Woman's Work" is the head of an aggressive empire that ruthlessly conquers and spreads. She orders people killed with a mere gesture (including a princess who refused to marry her son), kills off heroes trying to stop her, and is quite willing to have her son be a target for assassination instead of her. However, since she provides universal education and health care, a sound economy, a healthy population, and employment training, and doles out praise and rewards when it's earned, her people and army absolutely love her.
* TheWrongfulHeirToTheThrone: Queen Arrabel in Tanya Huff's ''A Woman's Work'' is well aware that her son is not up to her standards of Evil Overladyness and is a romantic idiot. After the conquest of a neighbouring kingdom, she notices that the youngest princess (and sole survivor) of the deposed royal family has a very ''practical'' frame of mind and quickly agrees to a marriage to Arrabel's son. The princess is the sole survivor because she convinced her two brothers to launch a failed suicide attack on Arrabel during the family's last stand and arranged for her older sister to have unfortunately become deceased. Queen Arrabel cheerfully expects that her son will suffer a tragic accident very soon after their first child is born, making the daughter-in-law the new heir to the throne, and is quite pleased with the thought of having a competent successor. She's also quite careful not to eat any food given to her by her new daughter-in-law.

* The ''Literature/BloodBooks'', which were later made into the TV series ''Series/BloodTies''. Huff actually got to write an episode of the show, "Stone Cold".

* The ''Literature/TheEnchantmentEmporium'' series, starring the [[InTheBlood magic-using Gale family]].[[/index]]

* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Queen Arabel from Creator/TanyaHuff's "A Woman's Work" is highly competent, beloved by her people, treats her staff well... and is utterly ruthless to her enemies (and her friends, if she had any). She's the type of person who wears understated, sensible clothing while her son wears flashy, extravagant uniforms because she knows who assassins would instinctively aim at. And then she marries him off to a neighbouring country's princess (sole survivor of the royal family), the Queen expecting that the princess will quickly produce an heir, following which the prince is likely to have a fatal accident. Not that she minds, as she thinks the princess has the right stuff to inherit the job of Queen.
* PragmaticVillainy: Queen Arabelle in ''A Woman's Work'' by Creator/TanyaHuff is ruthless enough to encourage her not-very-bright son to wear [[BlingOfWar highly decorated bright uniforms]] while she wears something more subdued (because who will an assassin instinctively aim at?) but makes sure her people are educated (at government schools with an approved curriculum), employed, have a good medical system, knows many of her troops by name and rewards them for good work and initiative, and when she conquers a new territory has most of the defeated nobles' property distributed among the lower classes of the conquered country and immediately starts infrastructure programs to help improve their lives. She even allows the odd dissident to make public speeches against her reign, giving her an excuse to remind the "oppressed citizens" that she's made their lives much better. And letting ''them'' beat up the troublemaker. She even encourages this -in the story itself [[spoiler:one of these dissidents is an actress in her pay]]. Giving a speech in front of a hospital.

** PragmaticVilliany: Queen Arabelle in ''A Woman's Work'' by Creator/TanyaHuff is ruthless enough to encourage her not-very-bright son to wear [[BlingOfWar highly decorated bright uniforms]] while she wears something more subdued (because who will an assassin instinctively aim at?) but makes sure her people are educated (at government schools with an approved curriculum), employed, have a good medical system, knows many of her troops by name and rewards them for good work and initiative, and when she conquers a new territory has most of the defeated nobles' property distributed among the lower classes of the conquered country and immediately starts infrastructure programs to help improve their lives. She even allows the odd dissident to make public speeches against her reign, giving her an excuse to remind the "oppressed citizens" that she's made their lives much better. And letting ''them'' beat up the troublemaker. She even encourages this -in the story itself [[spoiler:one of these dissidents is an actress in her pay]]. Giving a speech in front of a hospital.

* The ''Literature/TheEnchantmentEmporium'' series, starring the [[InTheBlood magic-using Gale family]].
As well as short stories and the occasional standalone novel.

* The ''Literature/EnchantmentEmporium'' series, starring the [[InTheBlood magic-using Gale family]].

* The ''Literature/EnchantmentEmporium'' series, starring a [[InTheBlood Magic-using Family]].

as well as short stories and the occasional standalone novel.

* ''Scholar of Decay'', a {{Ravenloft}} stand alone novel.

* The ''Quarters'' series