1. Mercedes Lackey has published several novels re-working well-known fairy tales set in a mid-19th to early 20th century setting in which magic is real, although hidden from the mundane world.
21 Facts About Mercedes Lackey
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Mercedes Lackey's birth prevented her father from being called to serve in the Korean War.
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Mercedes Lackey placed her meeting with science fiction at age 10 or 11, when she picked up her father's copy of James H Schmitz's Agent of Vega.
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Mercedes Lackey then read Andre Norton's Beast Master and Lord of Thunder and continued to read all of Norton's works.
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Mercedes Lackey had difficulties obtaining enough interesting books from the public library to sate her passion for reading.
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Mercedes Lackey wrote for herself but without real direction or purpose until she attended Purdue University.
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Mercedes Lackey helped her analyze books she enjoyed and then use that knowledge.
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Mercedes Lackey then encountered fan fiction, which further encouraged her writing.
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Mercedes Lackey began publishing work in science fiction fanzines and then discovered filk and had some filk lyrics published by Off Centaur Publications.
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Mercedes Lackey submitted a story to Sword and Sorceress, then sold the rewritten story to Fantasy Book Magazine.
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Mercedes Lackey divorced Tony Lackey, and eventually married Larry Dixon.
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Mercedes Lackey stated on her website that this was due to the 1992 Marion Zimmer Bradley fan fiction affair, when a fan accused Bradley of copying the fan's work, and demanded writing credit and remuneration.
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Mercedes Lackey married Anthony Lackey in 1972, and they divorced in 1990.
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Mercedes Lackey refers to her various parrots as her "feathered children".
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Mercedes Lackey was a major contributor to an early album of space filk, Minus Ten and Counting.
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Mercedes Lackey has won five Pegasus Awards, mostly for her songwriting.
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Mercedes Lackey was active in the Society for Creative Anachronism, and belongs to the Great Dark Horde.
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Mercedes Lackey participates in The Stellar Guild series published by Phoenix Pick.
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Mercedes Lackey was a protegee of Marion Zimmer Bradley, and got her start writing short stories in Bradley's story collections.
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Mercedes Lackey has worked with fantasy authors Andre Norton, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Anne McCaffrey, and Piers Anthony.
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Mercedes Lackey has most recently written The Obsidian Trilogy with historian James Mallory; a historical fantasy series about an "alternative" Elizabeth I with romance writer Roberta Gellis; and the Heirs of Alexandria series with Dave Freer and Eric Flint.