I will be profiling a different fantasy author on the first of every month. These biographies will eventully be put in the Authors Info part of the Articles section of Geek World, but not until they've had their month-long turn in the spotlight here as the Feature Author!
Mercedes Lackey is the Feature Author for the month of August!
I have to admit, one of my new favorite authors is Mercedes Lackey. I have so far only read two of her novels, and am soon going to be starting on a third. I love the way she writes; the first time I picked up one of her books, she had me hooked by the end of the first paragraph. I love how human and normal her characters are. I love how detailed the descriptions are...and yet how they leave things to the imagination as well. This is a woman who knows how to write and write well, a woman who has mastered the art of storytelling through her fiction and her songs.
Biography: Mercedes Lackey was born on June 24, 1950 in Chicago, IL. She lived a normal childhood and graduated from Perdue University in 1972. During the 1970s, she worked as a artist's model, and then went into computer programming, ending up with American Airlines in Tulsa, Oaklahoma. Aside from writing fantasy, she has written over fifty songs for Firebird Arts & Music, a recording company that specializes in science fiction folk music. Her fantasy novels are set in an other-world, semi-medieval atmosphere, and have a way of getting the reader's attention from the very start.
Bibliography: Below there is a list of all books to date written by Mercedes Lackey. Below that, you will find up-coming books in a list of their own. The lists are in order from publication date, which is the way Ms Lackey suggests they be read, even though that is not necessarily the same as the historical order, especially for the Valdemar books.
1987: Arrows of the Queen
1987: Arrow's Flight
1988: Arrow's Fall
1988: The Oathbound
1989: Burning Water
1989: Magic's Pawn
1989: Magic's Promise
1989: Oathbreakers
1989: Reap the Whirlwind
1990: Children of the Night
1990: Knight of Ghosts and Shadows
1990: Magic's Price
1991: By the Sword
1991: The Elvenbane
1991: Jinx High
1991: Winds of Fate
1992: Bedlam's Bard
1992: Born to Run
1992: Castle of Deception
1992: Freedom Flight
1992: Lark and the Wren
1992: The Ship Who Searched
1992: Summoned to Tourney
1992: Wheels of Fire
1992: Winds of Change
1993: The Black Gryphon
1993: Fortress of Frost and Fire
1993: If I Pay Thee Not in Gold
1993: Prison of Souls
1993: Rediscovery
1993: The Robin and the Kestrel
1993: When the Bough Breaks
1993: Winds of Fury
1994: A Cast of Corbies
1994: Chrome Circle
1994: The Eagle and the Nightingales
1994: Elvenblood
1994: Sacred Ground
1994: Storm Warning
1994: The White Gryphon
1995: The Fire Rose
1995: Storm Rising
1995: The Sword of Knowledge
1995: Tiger Burning Bright
1996: Firebird
1996: Lammas Night
1996: The Silver Gryphon
1996: Storm Breaking
1997: Four and Twenty Blackbirds
1997: Owlflight
1997: Sword of Ice and Other Tales of Valdemar
1998: Fiddler Fair
1998: Oathblood
1998: Owlsight
1999: The Black Swan
1999: Chrome Borne
1999: Otherworld
1999: Flights of Fancy
1999: Owlknight
1999: The River's Gift
1999: Werehunter
2000: Brightly Burning
2001: Beyond World's End
2001: The Serpent's Shadow
2001: Spirits White as Lightning
2001: Take a Thief
2002: Elvenborn
2002: Exile's Honor
2002: Gates of Sleep
2002: Shadow of the Lion
2003: Joust
Scheduled 2003: This Scepter'd Isle
Scheduled 2003: Mad Maudlin
October 2003: Exile's Valor
October 2003: The Outstretched Shadow
December 2003: Homecoming and Other Tales of Valdemar
2004: The Godmother Heir
March 2004: Alta
Coming in the Future: Elvenbred, Phoenyx and Ashes, This Rough Magic, Stones Souls, A Circus of Witches and Queen of Air and Darkness.
Profile of a Different Author Every Month!