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[[File:Mercedes Lackey 1a.jpg|thumb|300px|Mercedes Lackey in 2008]]
Author of fantasy and [[Urban Fantasy]] literature. And [[Filk Song|filk singer]]. Started out as a [[Fanfic]] writer.▼
{{quote|''There are other writers who don't want anyone messing with their world and characters (some have even described a feeling like "being raped" when they discovered there was fanfic about their stuff. On the one hand, I kind of sympathize...but there is ''no way'' short of inventing mind control that any writer is ever going to be able to control what happens to his book, world, or characters once the manuscript leaves his hands. So IMHO, I think you ought to just pull on your adult pants, face up to that, and wave goodbye to your book as it heads out into the world. You did your best by it, you tried to make things clear, you gave it the best start in life that you could, but it's on its own now, and you can either make yourself crazy by trying and failing to keep control, or you can do the smart thing and go on to the ''next'' book.''
|[[Mercedes Lackey]], quoted in [http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid{{=}}1125&pid{{=}}26884#pid26884 this forum post] at the ''[[Drunkard's Walk]]'' forum}}
▲'''Mercedes Lackey''' is an Author of fantasy and [[Urban Fantasy]] literature. And [[Filk Song|filk singer]]. Started out as a [[Fanfic]] writer.
She sometimes writes with other authors, including her husband, Larry Dixon, who also illustrates her work.
She was and is also an avid player of ''[[City of Heroes]]''
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{{examples|A ''very incomplete'' list of her works includes:}}
* Numerous books in a fantasy world of her own devising named Velgarth; most of them focus on [[The Kingdom]] of Valdemar and its allies. Called the ''[[Heralds of Valdemar]]'' series on this wiki, since we couldn't think of anything better.
** ''The Mage Wars'' trilogy, which describes events in the prehistory of the setting
** ''The Last Herald-Mage'' trilogy
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* Four urban fantasy series, all of which take place in the same universe:
** Three horror novels featuring magical Guardian/romance novelist Diana Tregarde
** The ''[[SERRAted Edge]]'' books, involving elves, car racing, and lots of child abuse. The main characters do their best to end the child abuse whenever they detect it. Since several of them are elves (''and'' car racers, too), their best is pretty good.
** The ''Bedlam's Bard'' books, which follow the development of a very powerful [[Magic Music|Bard]]; he also associates with elves a lot.
** The Elizabethan series ''The Doubled Edge'', which is the backstory of the elven politics in the ''Serrated Edge'' and ''Bedlam's Bard'' series, and is a retelling of the life of Queen Elizabeth from her birth to her crowning, and her association with the elves.
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* ''[[The Halfblood Chronicles]]'' (with [[Andre Norton]]), a fantasy trilogy.
* The ''[[Heirs of Alexandria]]'', a [[Historical Fantasy]] series with [[Eric Flint]] and [[David Freer]].
* ''[[The Ship Who...]] Searched'' (with [[Anne McCaffrey]])
* ''[[Gwenhwyfar]]: The White Spirit'': her take on Arthurian legend, told from the perspective of Arthur's queen.
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{{Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Awards}}
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