"Stranger things have happened," said Fleur, making a note of the thought to pass on to the appropriate party. "Like — a Godmother wedding a Champion!" She held up her glass of wine. "To happy endings, however they come about!"
Blanche clinked glasses with her. "To happy endings, indeed!"
A Q'and'A with Mercedes Lackey...
What does fantasy mean to you?
Fantasy for me has always gone far beyond the magic rings and castles of the classical fairy tale, although heaven knows I love the classical fairy tales! To write or enjoy fantasy requires an open mind and heart, and the ability to believe that things are not always what they seem.
Why do you think women enjoy reading fantasy?
I think it may be because, as Dorothy L. Sayers once pointed out about the mystery genre, fantasy is one of the last bastions of "moral fiction." By this she meant that in mystery — and in fantasy — good triumphs over evil, the wrongdoers get their just deserts, and all ends, if not always strictly happily, at least well. This is the definition of "moral fiction": something that shows the world, perhaps not as it is, but certainly as it could and should be. I think women are, as a whole, a lot less willing to settle for "that's just the way it is" than men are. You tend to find that the men who read fantasy are idealists, in fact.
What makes you write fantasy over any other subject?
I have greater scope in writing fantasy for my imagination than in any other genre. I can write fantasy romances, fantasy mysteries, heroic fantasy, modern-urban fantasy, historical fantasy, dark (or horror) fantasy, alternate-history fantasy, political fantasy even Western fantasy. There is virtually no genre that I could not use for a fantasy novel, and even if I haven't gotten around to it, someone surely has, because I can cite examples of every one of those books, either in my own body of work, or someone else's.
Anything you'd like to say about fantasy or writing, or writing fantasy?
When a reader closes the book with regret, you've done your job. What we all strive for is when a reader goes back to the same book again and again and finds equal pleasure in it each time they read it. That's what every reader is looking for, and every writer is working to accomplish.
And when it comes down to cases, everything written is at least in part a fantasy. Except maybe for the national budget. That's horror.
Mercedes Lackey's DAW books
Mercedes Lackey's DAW books
The Heralds of Valdemar
Arrow of the Queen Arrow's Flight Arrow's Fall Exile's Valor Exile's Honor Take a Thief
Vows 'and' Honor
The Oathbound
Oathbreakers
Oathblood
The Last Herald Mage Trilogy
Magic's Pawn
Magic's Promise
Magic's Price
The Mage Winds Trilogy
Winds of Fate
Winds of Change
Winds of Fury
By the Sword
The Mage Wars
Mercedes Lackeys DAW books
The Mage Storms Trilogy
Storm Warning
Storm Rising Storm Breaking
The Owl Mage Trilogy
Mercedes Lackey 'and' Larry Dixon
Owlflight
Owlsight
Owlknight
Brightly Burning
Non-Valdemar Books From DAW
The Dragon-Jousters
Joust
Rediscovery (1993) by Marion Zimmer Bradley 'and' Mercedes Lackey
Edwardian Fairy Tales
The Elemental Masters
The Gates of Sleep
The Serpent's Shadow
The Black Swan
Mercedes Lackey's Baen titles
Bard's Tale
Castle of Deception by Mercedes Lackey 'and' Josepha Sherman
Fortress of Frost and Fire by Ru Emerson 'and' Mercedes Lackey
Prison of Souls by Mercedes Lackey 'and' Mark Shepherd
Bardic Voices
Lark and the Wren
The Robin 'and' the Kestrel
The Eagle and the Nightingales
Four and Twenty Blackbirds
A Cast of Corbies by Mercedes Lackey 'and' Josepha Sherman
The Ship Who Searched by Mercedes Lackey 'and' Anne McCaffrey
Bedlam Bards
Bedlam's Bard (omnibus) by Ellen Guon 'and' Mercedes Lackey Knight of Ghosts and Shadows by Ellen Guon 'and' Mercedes Lackey
Summoned to Tourney by Ellen Guon 'and' Mercedes Lackey
Spirits White as Lightning by Mercedes Lackey 'and' Rosemary Edgehill
Beyond World's End by Mercedes Lackey 'and' Rosemary Edgehill
Mad Maudlin by Mercedes Lackey 'and' Rosemary Edgehill
Mercedes Lackey's Baen titles
The Serrated Edge
* Born To Run by Larry Dixon 'and' Mercedes Lackey
* Chrome Circle by Larry Dixon 'and' Mercedes Lackey
·Wheels of Fire by Mercedes Lackey 'and' Mark Shepherd
·When the Bough Breaks by Mercedes Lackey 'and' Holly Lisle
* collected as THE CHROME BORNE
·collected as THE OTHERWORLD
Fire Rose
Reap the Whirlwind by C. J. Cherryh 'and' Mercedes Lackey
Doubled Edge, Elizabethan Magic
This Scepter'd Isle by Mercedes Lackey 'and' Roberta Gellis
Heirs of Alexandria: Alternate History
The Shadow of the Lion by Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint 'and' Dave Freer
This Rough Magic by Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint 'and' Dave Freer
Wing Commander: Science Fiction
Freedom Flight by Ellen Guon 'and' Mercedes Lackey
If I Pay Thee Not In Gold by Mercedes Lackey 'and' Piers Anthony
Mercedes Lackey's Tor titles
Halfblood Chronicles
by Mercedes Lackey 'and' Andre Norton
The Shadow Mountain Trilogy
by Mercedes Lackey 'and' James Mallory
The Outstretched Shadow Firebird
Diana Tregarde/Jenny Talldeer
Burning Water Children of the Night
Jinx High Sacred Ground
Mercedes Lackey's Avonova title
Tiger Burning Bright by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Andre Norton 'and' Mercedes Lackey
Mercedes Lackey's Silhouette Books title
Counting Crows in Charmed Destinies
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