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  "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 Lackey 'and' Larry Dixon The Black Gryphon The White Gryphon The Silver Gryphon

  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

  Bardic Choices

  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 Elvenbane Elvenblood Elvenborn

  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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