History Creator / UrsulaVernon

I ''Literature/TheSaintOfSteel'' series

* ''The Hollow Places'' (2020, upcoming)

* TheVerse: There are enough references to shared characters, cultures, and historic events that several of her stories can be inferred to take place in the same world. Particularly ''Literature/BlackDogs'', ''Webcomic/{{Digger}}'', ''Literature/{{Gearworld}}'', and ''Podcast/TheHiddenAlmanac''. ''Nurk'' takes place in the same world as ''Digger''; its protagonist is related to a ''Digger'' character.

%%* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous: The evils of Mint (see AuthorAppeal above).

* ''Nine Goblins'' (a sort-of prequel to ''Elf vs. Orc'')
* ''Toad Words and Other Stories''
* ''Literature/TheSeventhBride'' (Re-released in print)
* ''Bryony and Roses''
* ''The Raven and the Reindeer''
* ''Summer in Orcus''
* ''Jackalope Wives and Other Stories''
* ''The Halcyon Fairy Book''
* ''Clocktaur War'' duology
* ''Swordheart''
* ''Minor Mage''
* ''Literature/TheTwistedOnes''
* ''Paladin's Grace''

* ''Literature/TheTwistedOnes

* ''Liturature/The Twisted Ones''

* ''The Twisted Ones''

* ''The Seventh Bride'' (Re-released in print)

%%* MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext: Many of her works are pretty weird. And often as not, her explanation is "I don't know, either" or "[[IJustWriteTheThing I just paint the things]], I don't have to know what they ''mean''".
%%* MoodWhiplash: She has a very humourous style, and uses it even when describing very traumatic events.

* CloudCuckoolander: Comes across as charmingly eccentric. Her Hugo acceptance speech was a vivid and accurate description on the fascinating phenomenon of whale falls. This had absolutely nothing to do with anything. But, as she put it, when else was she going to have a chance to lecture this kind of audience on the topic?

* SoapboxSadie: Describes herself this way in a self deprecating manner. Her Pokemon Trainer persona, for example, is [[https://www.deviantart.com/ursulav/art/Pokemon-Gardener-444981514 a specialist in Grass Types who will corner you at a party and lecture about the loss of wild Tall Grass.]]

** "The Tomato Thief" (sequel to the previous) features a foreign god who [[BalefulPolymorph transforms people into birds and thereby forces them to do his bidding]].

* CloudCuckoolander: Comes across as charmingly eccentric. Her Hugo acceptance speech was a vivid and accurate description on the fascinating phenomenon of whale falls. This had absolutely nothing to do with anything but, as she put it, when else was she going to have a chance to lecture this kind of audience on the topic?

* SoapboxSadie: Describes herself this way in a self deprecating manner. Her Pokemon Trainer persona, for example, is a [[https://www.deviantart.com/ursulav/art/Pokemon-Gardener-444981514 specialist in Plant Types who will corner you at a party and lecture about the loss of wild Tall Grass.]]

* CloudCuckoolander: Comes across as charmingly eccentric. Her Hugo acceptance speech was a detailed description on the fascinating phenomenon of whale falls. This had absolutely nothing to do with anything but, as she put it, when else was she going to have a chance to lecture this kind of audience on the topic?

* ShapedLikeItself: In ''Swordheart'', when enchanted warrior Sarkis asserts that he's fought dragons, the heroine Halla asks how big they were. He exasperatedly asserts that they were ''dragon''-sized. (When she asks how big that is relative to, say, a house, he starts banging his head against the wall.)

* BecauseYouCanCope: In "Godmother", a FairyGodmother is confronted by a young princess who has just survived a harrowing adventure without any magical assistance, and demands to know why she didn't get any when other princesses in less dire circumstances did. This is the answer the Godmother gives her.

* DomesticAbuse: In the "Literature/TamLin" retelling "Let Pass the Horses Black", Janet is a domestic abuse survivor, which means she has experience taking pain unflinchingly that stands her in good stead in the Elf Queen's trials. [[spoiler:Specifically, she suffered abuse at the hands of the Tam Lin character--it turns out at the end that she's only rescuing him as a necessary step toward achieving her real desire.]]

** Literature/SummerInOrcus specifically does not share a world with the others, but is probably a part of the same multiverse since [[Literature/BlackDogs Dog Soldiers feature prominently.]] Especially since they specifically came from another world.

** SummerInOrcus specifically does not share a world with the others, but is probably a part of the same multiverse since [[BlackDogs Dog Soldiers feature prominently.]] Especially since they specifically came from another world.

Once [[http://ursulav.livejournal.com/1508804.html fought]] Creator/NeilGaiman to get to free nachos leaving him weeping on the floor, covered in Guacamole.

* ''Nine Goblins'' (a sort-of prequel to Elf vs. Orc)

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Some of her fairy tale retellings, while being set in the default medievalish Europeanish setting for fairy tales, include North American bird or plant species, because the author is a gardener and a birdwatcher and includes details from her own experience. Examples include some of the plants mentioned in ''Bryony and Roses'', and the enchanted bird in "The Dryad's Shoes".

%%* MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext: Many of her works are pretty weird. And often as not, her explanation is "I don't know either" or "[[IJustWriteTheThing I just paint the things]], I don't have to know what they ''mean''".

* SignatureStyle: Women (or occasional men) [[ClassicalAntihero with very little knowledge of the supernatural or fighting]] (but some knowledge of gardening) get in far over their head but power through it with good sense and practicality. Expect [[RealityEnsues reality to ensue]], [[PlayingWithATrope tropes to be played with]], [[OurMonstersAreWeird and some really weird and evocatively designed critters]] to be scattered about. There is a high likelihood of encountering a SeldomSeenSpecies.

* Literature/TheTwistedOnes

* ''The Twisted Ones'' (upcoming)

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