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* [[Action Girl]] - ''Chicks In Chainmail'' series, several characters in the ''Majyk'' series, Becca eventually becomes this in ''The Sword of Mary''
* [[After the End]] - Implied to be the setting of the ''Becca of Wiserways'' books.
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* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] - in ''The Sherwood Game''.
* [[Deconstruction]] - a number of her ''Chicks In Chainmail'' stories deconstruct the genre comically. ''Split Heirs'' deconstructs ''[[The Prince and the Pauper]]'' stories. All Genie tropes in ''Wishing Season''.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]] - A man offered his four
* [[Forbidden Zone]] - Becca of Wiserways series.
* [[Freeing the Genie]] - in ''Wishing Season''
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* [[Good Old Ways]] - Becca of Wiserways.
* [[Hooker with a Heart of Gold]] - Megan, the protagonist of ''Harlot's Ruse''.
* [[Ivy League for Everyone]] - ''Unicorn U'' takes place (mostly) at Princeton after the main character gets accepted there.
* [[Jackass Genie]] - in ''Wishing Season''
* [[Magic Ampersand]] - the game "Palaces & Puppies" is mentioned in ''Majyk by Hook or Crook''
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* [[Our Angels Are Different]] - The ''Demon'' Trilogy.
* [[Our Demons Are Different]] - The ''Demon'' Trilogy.
* [[Pun-Based Title]] - 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'', ''Gnome Man's Land''...
* [[Robin Hood]] - ''The Sherwood Game'' is about a [[Cyberspace]] game featuring the Robin Hood characters; it gets complicated when [[Instant AI, Just Add Water]] kicks in. (Though things don't get ''really'' bad until the [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] shows up.)
* [[Shout-Out]] - The village idiots in the ''Majyk'' trilogy are named [[Lawrence Watt-Evans|Lorrenz, Wot, and Evvon]], the title characters of ''Death and the Librarian'' were inspired by some [[Discworld]] figurines she had on her desk (though the story has nothing to do with [[Discworld]].
* [[Sinister Minister]] - played for comedy in ''Hooray for Hellywood'', televangelist "Sometime" Joseph Lee is in fact the demon Raleel.
* [[Sliding Scale of Silliness Versus Seriousness]]: from the very funny, pun-laden ''Majyk'' series to the post-apocalyptic [[Crapsack World]] of ''Becca of Wiserways''.
* [[Sterility Plague]] - In ''Becca of Wiserways'', some sort of unspecified [[Depopulation Bomb]] in the past has made it so that women only get their periods once per ''year''.
* [[Sweet Polly Oliver]] - a few, often overlapping with [[Action Girl]].
* [[Talking Animal]] - A magically-talking cat in both the ''Majyk'' series and ''Wishing Season''
* [[Teenage Wasteland]] - Becca of Wiserways encounters one.
* [[The Magic Goes Away]] - ''Yesterday We Saw Mermaids''
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