Comments on: Mercedes Lackey Quotes

By: sueannbowlingauthor

sueannbowlingauthor — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 06:28:12 +0000

I actually wrote a story for the Darkover collections once–and that was the year MJB stopped publishing them before I ever sent it in. I’ve used her, but she’s not as easy to find quotes in as Misty. I have most of the Darkover series, though, and might start trying them more.

By: Liz Shaw

Liz Shaw — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 04:41:34 +0000

I haven’t read anything by her for a while. Must remedy that. Love the glorious destinies quote.

By: Kelly Hashway (@kellyhashway)

Kelly Hashway (@kellyhashway) — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 21:22:03 +0000

1 & 5 are my favorites. Both are very true and easy to relate to.

By: Beverly Diehl

Beverly Diehl — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 20:04:23 +0000

Love love love Misty Lackey – how did I miss you sending out these quotes? (Prolly the working fulltime and trying like mad to get around to everything in my “spare” time thing. And because I’m not on Twitter, much.)

If you start reading the first books Lackey wrote, and progress forward from there, you can really see her learning, growing and improving as a writer, though she’s always had great ideas and is a wonderful storyteller. I think Kerowyn (By The Sword) also uses the quote about glorious funerals.

MZB has some excellent philosophies in her books, too, and possibly Jennifer Roberson in her Cheysuli novels. (She did shapeshifters long before shapeshifters was trendy.)

By: sueannbowlingauthor

sueannbowlingauthor — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:53:39 +0000

Mercedes Lackey writes fantasy, and quite a wide range of fantasy types from retelling opera stories (Black Swan, Firebird) and fairy tales to urban fantasy , paranormal, and the world in which Valdemar is set. She is a wonderful story-teller, though there are some repeated descriptive phrases in her early books that made me wince when she kept repeating them. I’d say she, Andre Norton and Anne McCaffrey are probably the greatest influences on my own science fiction writing. Her books are very good for Twitter quotes — others I sometimes have to skim for an hour or two and find nothing.

By: Patricia Blomeley-Maddigan

Patricia Blomeley-Maddigan — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:36:22 +0000

“Whatever is prepared for never occurs.” Mercedes Lackey

That is my favourite! It is so very true!

I have not heard of Mercedes Lackey, Sue, what type of book does she write? Looks like you have read and re-read these two Mercedes books many times!

Patricia