Mercedes Lackey
Mercedes Lackey is a New York Times bestselling author. She
started writing in her early teens and developed her skills by creating
fan-fiction for various amateur magazines. In the 1980s she took a job
programming computers for a major airline and as a consequence moved to
Oklahoma, where she continued perfecting her writing skills and was mentored by
experienced authors like C.J. Cherryh.
In 1985, her first book was published. In 1990 she met
artist Larry Dixon at a small science fiction convention in Meridian
Mississippi, on a television interview organized by the convention. They began
working together from that time on, and were married in Las Vegas at the
Excalibur chapel by Merlin the Magician (aka the Reverend Duckworth) in 1992.
She has nearly 150 books in print and some of her foreign
editions can be found in Russian, German, Czech, Polish, French, Italian,
Turkish, and Japanese. She is the author—alone or in collaboration—of the Hunter,
Heralds of Valdemar, Elemental Masters, Secret World Chronicles, 500 Kingdoms,
Diana Tregarde, Heirs of Alexandria, Obsidian Mountain, Dragon Jouster, Bedlam
Bards, Shadow Grail, and other series and standalone books.