28 Facts About Margaret Weis

Margaret Edith Weis is an American fantasy and science fiction author of dozens of novels and short stories.

Margaret Weis is founding CEO and owner of Sovereign Press, Inc and Margaret Weis Productions, licensing several popular television and movie franchises to make RPG series in addition to their own.

Margaret Weis was born on March 16,1948, in Independence, Missouri, where she was raised.

Margaret Weis discovered heroic fantasy fiction while studying at the University of Missouri.

Margaret Weis graduated from the University of Missouri in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts in creative writing and literature.

Margaret Weis recalled, "Of course, my mother knew I was going to starve with such a worthless degree", so her mother got her a job as a proofreader at a small publishing company in neighboring Kansas City, Missouri.

Margaret Weis started writing for the low-paying juvenile book market by appealing to librarians with her high-quality, well-researched books.

Margaret Weis's first book is a biography of the outlaws Frank and Jesse James, because Frank had been buried in a cemetery near her childhood school in Independence.

In 1983, Margaret Weis applied for a job as a game editor at TSR, Inc that she saw advertised in Publishers Weekly.

Margaret Weis stayed in the book division, leaving the company as an independent author in 1986.

Margaret Weis attributed their writing partnership's longevity to specialization, where Hickman was the world builder and storyteller who defines "when the moon rises and which way the winds blow", and she brought characters and substance.

Margaret Weis wrote plot ideas and dialogue scraps upon napkins and envelopes until she got a portable computer, and got nervous if unable to work.

Margaret Weis said, "I'd love to do mysteries but I don't have the head for them".

Margaret Weis wrote the space opera Star of the Guardians novels, which she calls her favorite series that she has written.

Margaret Weis published a game based on Mag Force 7 from 1994 to 1996.

From 2003 to 2005, Margaret Weis completed the Dragonvarld trilogy for Tor.

Margaret Weis was inducted into the Origins Hall of Fame in 2002, recognized in part for "one game line turned literary sensation: Dragonlance".

Margaret Weis formed the company Sovereign Press, with herself as CEO, to publish the Sovereign Stone role-playing game written by her husband Don Perrin with Lester Smith.

Margaret Weis has served on the board of directors of Mag Force 7, Inc.

Margaret Weis's next project was a solo novel called The Soulforge, based on her favorite character from the trilogy, the dark wizard Raistlin.

Between 2004 and 2008, Margaret Weis wrote a solo novel trilogy titled The Dark Disciple; the first novel, Amber and Ashes, was published in August 2004.

In 2004, Margaret Weis told Hickman she wanted to return to the main protagonists of the Dragonlance world.

Margaret Weis met her future husband in high school, married after college, and had two children.

Margaret Weis said she always avoided reading fantasy books since Tolkien to avoid influencing her work, but favored classics like Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, and Sherlock Holmes in any spare time.

Margaret Weis often played games at her co-owned store, Game Guild.

Margaret Weis cooked for relaxation, and collected cookbooks in her travels, such as recipes of drinks from Dickens books.

In 1993, Margaret Weis was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent successful chemotherapy.

Margaret Weis stayed busy writing The Seventh Gate during treatment.