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Anyway, I'd tell you more, but if I tell you too much, you won't need to buy my books. Make sure you buy my books. For every one you buy, we donate money to the Alcatraz Smedry Wildlife Fund For Buying Alcatraz Smedry Cool Stuff. You can even use it as a coaster.
The series at present{{when}} consists of four books:
# ''Alcatraz Versus The Evil Librarians'' (2007)
# ''Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones'' (2008)
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Also, I would really like it if you don't confuse this with [[The Alcatraz]]. Or ''[[Alcatraz (TV series)|Alcatraz]]'', for that matter.
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* [[Absent-Minded Professor]]: A lot of the Smedries are this.
* [[Action Girl]]: Bastille is a perfect example of this, though I'm not sure I would use this term to her face. She is a 12 year old knight and an expert fighter.
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* [[Affably Evil]]: She Who Cannot Be Named actually makes great chocolate chip cookies when she's not plotting the downfall of her enemies.
* [[Author Filibuster]]: More like narrator filibuster. I frequently break the action to say various random things that may or may not relate to the story. For example: "Blah, blah, sacrifice, altars, daggers, sharks. Blah, blah, something pretentious. Blah, blah, rutabaga. Blah, blah, something that makes no sense whatsoever. Now, back to the story."
* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: The name Smedry actually means "Oculator". <ref>from Old Nalhallan ''smead-dary'', meaning ''Lens-wielder''</ref>
* [[Blatant Lies]]: Just about everything Librarians tell you. Physics, for example. And Napoleon. And, well... okay. Some of my narration isn't entirely accurate. Admit it, though. You totally thought I was a fish.
* [[Black Magic]]: Dark Oculary
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* [[Department of Child Disservices]]: My child services worker was always telling me how useless I was. {{spoiler|Turns out she was my mother. I know, great parents I have, right.}}
* [[Destructive Saviour]] plus [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]] plus [[Person of Mass Destruction]]: Hey, I did say I was good at breaking things. {{spoiler|This comes into sharp focus at the end of the fourth book, when my defeat of an invading army also manages to do a lot of damage to the city I'm defending, as well as breaking the Smedry Talents.}}
* [[Discussed Trope]]: Sometimes the characters will discuss a trope, but more often I explicitly describe what tropes or [[Narrative Device|Narrative Devices]]
* [[The Ditz]]: Australia Smedry isn't dim-witted. She just has trouble remembering that she is smart.
* [[Dungeon Crawling]]: Every time we infiltrate a library, ranging from a typical American local library to the Library of Alexandria. Complete with traps, monsters and villains.
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