MERCEDES-LACKEY Digest 2642 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Re: Choosing to be a herald by "Morrigan Moon" 2) Re: Choosing to be a herald by Sarah Scrivano 3) RE: Choosing to be a herald by "Dionne, Judith" 4) Gwena as grove born by "Hill, Susan" 5) After Midnight by "Misty's Secretary" 6) Re: [Misty web site]and Mistyakes by "Misty's Secretary" 7) Re: After Midnight by Silvershadow 8) RE: After Midnight by "Cat Ray" 9) Re: After Midnight by Aurora 10) Re: After Midnight by eliza77-+AT+-webtv.net (eliza) 11) Re: [Misty web site]and Mistyakes by Silvershadow 12) Re: After Midnight by "Sanne Hoogerwerf" 13) Sword of Ice by =?iso-8859-1?q?Sheridan=20Hoy?= 14) RE: After Midnight by "Li'nia Stormdancer" 15) Greetings, y'all! by "Barbara Slater" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 16:11:51 -0000 From: "Morrigan Moon" To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: Choosing to be a herald Message-ID: Seeing as I am fairly new to the list, I don't know if this has been a topic of conversation before, but...... does everyone with some kind of gift invariably end up as a herald/healer/bard? What happens to those that don't have a vocation, do you just hope that the gift doesn't get out of control, or would they get taught some other way? Keep smiling Clair _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 12:20:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Sarah Scrivano To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: Choosing to be a herald Message-ID: <20010716192020.33530.qmail-+AT+-web11002.mail.yahoo.com> --- Morrigan Moon wrote: > > Seeing as I am fairly new to the list, I don't know > if this has been a topic > of conversation before, but...... > > does everyone with some kind of gift invariably end > up as a herald/healer/bard? What happens to those that > don't have a vocation, do > you just hope that the gift doesn't get out of > control, or would they get > taught some other way? > > Keep smiling > > Clair > I would assume that they would wander of their own volition to outKindom; where someone would latch on to them and train them. Most people in Valdemar who tend to get a Gift are directed to the career path most suited to using that particular Gift by those in authority...they then wind up choosing to go down that path as they realize that that is what suits them best. Check out Andeshe in the Winds and then in the Storms books; he eventually turns onto the path that he would have (most likely) wound up taking if he had stayed put instead of running away. Rogue Gifts are not Good Things as they eventually get out of control of the user (and most usually) decimate those around the user at the time. Happy sheep to all! Sarah S. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 15:50:17 -0400 From: "Dionne, Judith" To: Subject: RE: Choosing to be a herald Message-ID: <2CCA5938BD61874BBDFD97AA9B6DAF5C415F31-+AT+-scheexc01.FHS.COM> I got the impression, especially from the Oathblood and Kerowyn's books, that the people who lived outside of Valdemar and were born with Gifts kinda either migrated toward mage schools or the priesthood (in the case of Karse.) The Gifts would kind of go hand in hand with some of the disciplines the mage schools follow. Other than that, I would suppose that such people would be preyed upon by blood-path mages; there are several references in the Storms books about Falconsbane using, subverting and trying to duplicate such Gifts. Ciocia Judi, Mistress of StyxJam III The Polish Blonde in Worcester AND Rabid Styx Fan of Central Massachusetts Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. -----Original Message----- From: Sarah Scrivano [mailto:merinsalive-+AT+-yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 3:46 PM To: Dionne, Judith Subject: Re: Choosing to be a herald ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I would assume that they would wander of their own volition to outKindom; where someone would latch on to them and train them. Rogue Gifts are not Good Things as they eventually get out of control of the user (and most usually) decimate those around the user at the time. Happy sheep to all! Sarah S. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 13:49:52 -0700 From: "Hill, Susan" To: "'mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk'" Subject: Gwena as grove born Message-ID: <872A9D7CC09CD11188CE00805FBB042E0A36426E-+AT+-emswwc7.weyer.com> I suspect, given in one of the books (arrows?) they talk about after the founding most of the Companions were grove born until they could propagate their own number on their own. Since they had a MO then, and the MO doesn't die unless he's murdered, we can assume that its the MO status that gives him that and NOT the grove born quality... Otherwise, it would have been mentioned that all those grove born companions at the Founding weren't dying of old age - that they stuck around until shot by an arrow or something. I think thats something that would have been mentioned as part of the history - you know Herald Chroniclers would have mentioned Heralds A, B, C, and D were all chosen by Companion Y, until Companion Y's death during a battle with Herald D. That just seems like too big of a set of details for it be "left out" of the history lesson in Arrows. AND it would have meant that the Bards would have made songs about Companion Y - the longest lived, bravest and wisest and so forth. You know how Bards can be with such a history available to them. thats my 2 cents. I'm sure Paul, now that he's not so wisely poked his head into the list again, will give us the "definitive word" from Misty herself. (And PAUL - QUIT READING THE DAMN MAILING LIST AND GET BACK TO PROOFING THAT BOOK - THE MORE YOU SCREW AROUND HERE, THE LONGER WE HAVE TO WAIT!!!) Love ya! -Suzi ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 23:02:51 +0100 From: "Misty's Secretary" To: Subject: After Midnight Message-ID: Okay, here's a treat for you all. Thanks to Sheridan Hoy for pointing out that Misty had released this to the Baen's Barflies (www.baen.com) This is the short story that Misty is submitting to the Daw Anniversary Anthology. I'm not sure when it's due out. Please note that the following is a rough draft, definitely subject to change. Furthermore, since it's rather tongue in cheek, and out of an upcoming book, I'm spoilering it for those that wouldn't want to see rough draft stuff. On a slightly different note, it's becoming common practise on the bar to snippet pieces of upcoming books (maybe the first chapter or two, that sort of thing). Would this be a good thing to send out to the list? Would it spoil the books for you to have rough draft material for you to examine, or would you be champing at the bit to get hold of Skif and Alberich ahead of time, even if only in part? :-) Would you just be interested in Valdemar stuff, or do you want (for example) Spirits White as Lightning snippets too? I'm not promising these things mind, I'm just suggesting that they may be possibilities once in a while.. Let me know how you all feel. "After Midnight" rough draft follows. Paul S P O I L E R AFTER MIDNIGHT (c) Mercedes Lackey. Do Not Repost. The Author woke up, knowing that she was not alone. Simply opening her eyes proved that her instinctive feeling was correct. The bed was enveloped in a seafoam-colored, glowing mist. Surrounding the bed were dozens of people. All were costumed more-or-less outlandishly. Some looked irritated, some angry, but none were happy. All were familiar. "Oh, awake at last, are you?" asked a handsome man with silver-streaked hair and silver eyes, who just happened to be the spitting image of actor Michael Praed. "It's about time. We have a few bones to pick with you." The Author scooted herself up into the headboard, trying to get as far away from the mob as possible, and addressed the speaker. "Um---Vanyel---before you say or do anything rash, I think you should know that you're probably one of the most popular characters in my books---" Vanyel snorted. "Popular. Popular! And that's supposed to make up for what you did to me? It's not enough to give me the family from Hell, it's not enough to make me gay, oh no, you've got to kill off my first love in the first book and make me go an entire trilogy pining after him, like some kind of medieval soap opera! And then you write me dialogue that sounds like a Morrissey record!" Someone in the background snickered, and chanted to the tune of "London Bridges"---"I'm depressed and so I whine, so I whine, all the time, I'm depressed and so I whine, my name's Vanyel." Vanyel spun around and glowered at the offending party, and another speaker took advantage of the momentary distraction to step forward. "Like he's got problems?" said Diana Tregarde, a young woman dressed in jeans and a leotard, whose long, dark hair managed to look as if it had come straight from the hands of an Uberstylist. "You give me a vampire for a boyfriend, you end the third book on a cliffhanger, and then what? You drop me like a hot potato!" "At least you got a third book," mumbled Jennifer Talldeer, who could easily have been Diana's Native American twin sister. "Yeah, well none of you had to spend a few centuries as a forest," Vanyel countered. "A forest! I ask you!" "You had Stefan and Yfandes with you," the Author ventured timidly. "Oh great, so how, exactly, am I supposed to get it on with my true love when we're both a bunch of trees?" Vanyel snarled. "At least you got a true love---and a whole life," complained Lavan Firestorm. "I get what---a talking horse and a nice tombstone? Thank you so very friggin' much!" His tone turned mocking. "And then you brag about it! 'The Lackey patented formula for success---make your audience identify with and care deeply for a character then drop a mountain on him!'" A tall, blond woman snorted. "Teenagers! What would you know? I have a perfectly reasonable life as a mercenary---hellfires, I have my own company! It's looking like comfortable retirement-city! Then Ms White-Horses-On-The-Cover rips it all up and turns me into some kind of do-gooder in a uniform like a walking target and inflicts me with crap that talks in my head! I'm ready for menopause, and she starts with this nonsense!" "Well, if you're going to start in on that line of thought," interrupted another woman, this one in black armor and silver hair, who had a face like an axe-blade. "Let me tell you, it was no picnic being saddled with arthritis and teaching you and your little buddy!" "And thanks so much for turning me from a heroine into the prime bitch-slut of the millennium!" called a young woman in the rather idealized costume of a Russian czarina, who stood on tiptoe at the back of the room. "You didn't deserve Ivan anyway," snapped another in a gown of glowing feathers. "All you ever do in the ballet is stand around and wait for rescue!" "Speaking of ballet," Prince Siegfried interrupted. "I know you had to do something with the character, but did you have to make me into such a selfish bastard? Selfish, fine, bastard, all right, but both at once? And if you ask me, you really didn't pull off my so-called redemption very convincingly...." "Nobody asked you," murmured Odile, who earned a glare from Odette. "Don't tell me you've got a complaint!" the Author exclaimed indignantly. "You got the title and a happy ending! Not bad for someone who's best known for thirty-two fouettes in the last act!" "But did it have to be Benno?" Odile countered. "The guy who never does anything but lift Odette so the Prince won't put his back out?" "Hey!" said Siegfried indignantly. The Author glanced quickly around. "I don't see Maya or Peter Scott," she murmured with relief. "Oh, I say!" Lord Peter Almsley waved from the back of the crowd. "You still haven't planned a book for me! You just can't leave me dangling as a hanger-on---" "She left me dangling after three books!" countered Diana Tregarde. "Look, it's not her fault that some nutcases decided you were real!" A graying, indomitable figure in Herald's Whites stepped forward, and the rest of the group stepped back a pace as she placed herself between the author and the mob. "Have any of you ever bothered to think about an author's responsibilities?" asked Herald-Chronicler Myste. "They aren't just to you, the characters---face it, if that were the case, every one of you would have wonderful lives full of adventures that never got you into trouble and ended so happily that people would gag! Right?" There arose a murmur from the crowd, tones that sounded to the Author's ears like grudging agreement. "Furthermore," Myste continued, "If that was what she wrote, nobody would ever bother to read it!" A tiny woman with curly chestnut hair, also in Herald's Whites, nodded agreement. "I hate to say this, folks, but Myste is right. I started out that way---and if that was the way I'd stayed, none of us would ever have been published." She spared a slightly sour glance for the Author. "I could have done without the crushed feet, though." The Author winced. "Sorry, Talia. I'd just read this book on medieval tortures...and you were my first book. I hadn't figured out where to stop with the research yet." "All right, all right---" Myste interrupted, before anyone else could start lodging complaints again. "That'll do. The point is, the author hasn't got much in the way of responsibility towards you, the characters, except to make you interesting enough that people will want to read about you. Her responsibility is always towards the audience, the readers." "I would have preferred---" a black gryphon began to rumble. "All of you would have preferred something else," Myste said, cutting him off. "Think about this, while you're preferring. Look at the kind of job she's got in front of her. She's got to juggle real-life problems, some of them just as grim as the ones she put you through, somehow manage to get books written and turned in on time---" "Mostly," interrupted a blue dragon from beside the black gryphon. "All right, mostly. And she's got to figure out how to do things with you that she hasn't done before, so the readers don't get bored! Now do you think any of you could do that?" Myste planted both fists on her hips and glared at them. "And give you happy endings as well?" "Mostly," said Lavan Firestorm, but without much anger. "Tragedy," Myste countered, with great dignity, "Is generally considered to be more compelling than any other dramatic force." "Oh?" Lavan replied. "Is that supposed to make up for getting dead before I ever got laid?" "Teenagers," Myste and the Author mumbled together, and exchanged a knowing glance. "And do you think she doesn't suffer as much as you do in all of this?" Myste continued. "The amount of facial-tissue this woman goes through---not to mention cola---! The long nights, the frenzied sessions at the keyboard? Van, she didn't have a life when she was writing you---you were her life! Everything you people feel, she feels! Oh, maybe not the physical torture---" "I did work for American Airlines," the Author murmured. "---but she goes through the same emotions, or she couldn't write all of yours so well! Did you ever think of that?" "Yeah but---" Lavan started another objection, then looked around. But the rest of the crowd seemed to be talking it over among themselves, and even Vanyel tapped Lavan on the shoulder and drew him into a four-way colloquy with Stefan and Talia. The Author began to relax, as one by one, the characters turned away from the bed and its contents, and wandered off into the green haze. Eventually, there was no one left but Myste and the Author. The Author heaved an enormous sigh of relief. "My god, you saved my ass," she said, sincerely, but rather without the grace she usually showed in her prose. "Well, I am you," Myste shrugged. "On the whole, you've done rather well at not putting yourself in your books, though. That's pretty admirable." The Author shrugged and blushed a little. "Is there anything I can do to thank you?" she asked. Myste raised one eyebrow, an expression cloned straight from the author's own face. "Well...I don't suppose I could get a walk-on in the next book, could I?" she asked. The Author considered it. "I don't see why not," she said cautiously. "There's room. But I'd have to figure out why you're permanently at the Collegium." "Not another missing leg in the Tedrel Wars," Myste snapped. "You've done that. Twice." "Er," replied the Author guiltily, because she'd been considering it. Then she brightened. "I know! And every fan- kid in glasses would love it! You're myopic!" "Nearsighted? Can't that be Healed?" Myste asked dubiously. The Author shook her head in triumph. "Nope. Established canon. Healers can't Heal genetic defects; they work on the pattern of the DNA and---" "Enough!" Myste interrupted, holding up her hand. "That's the stuff the readers don't need to know. But you've got the Artificers; surely they'd have come up with glasses by now. You've got good optics established canonically." "In the Field?" the Author countered. "Well...they'd probably have to have big wooden frames and straps that went around the back of the head...they'd look like dorky sports-goggles, but they'd work." The Author frowned. "True enough." Then her expression changed to one of glee. "But not after you went into bifocals, my dear!" "Eh?" Myste said, puzzled. "Benjamin Franklin had them, and you're into steam-tech by now---" "Oh no---you're me, remember? That's why I had laser- correction, bifocals made me dizzy." The Author sat back with an air of triumph. "Point taken. Can't have dizzy Heralds, at least not in the Field." Myste nodded her satisfaction with the solution. "One other thing, though---think you could get me a boyfriend too?" "A love-interest?" the Author asked. "Whatever." She frowned. "I'm not sure I want to bring in too many incidental characters. You know how they try and take over a book. Look at Almsley!" "Oi!" objected a voice from deep in the haze. "Use an existing one," Myste suggested. The Author looked thoughtful. "How about Alberich?" "Alberich?" Myste considered that. "Good body. Facial scars aren't that bad a handicap. Kind of mono-focused, though, isn't he?" "Aren't you all?" the Author countered. "That kind of goes with the white suit." "Point taken." Myste nodded. "Cool. Alberich it is." She frowned as a thought occurred to her. "Don't go giving me the hobby of raising fancy chickens, though." "But I like fancy chickens," the Author said weakly. "I know, and so will everyone else if you put it in," Myste replied. She walked off into the green haze herself, which began to close in around her. "Most excellent! I get a walk-on, a fleshing-out, and a boyfriend!" "Love-interest!" "Whatever." The green haze closed down to a pinpoint, and vanished. 'I can always drop a mountain on her later,' the Author thought. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 23:43:18 +0100 From: "Misty's Secretary" To: Subject: Re: [Misty web site]and Mistyakes Message-ID: www.firebirdarts.com is the source for the music. You can get the cassettes starting at $10, which hardly seems egregious to me - it's cheaper than a hardback book. I appreciate that some people do not have excesses of money, but this is hardly a vast amount of cash. Perhaps if you see the music at conventions and the like, the price is jacked up significantly higher by resellers who bought theirs from the above original source? Then there's the second hand market, you might try ebay and amazon.com auctions for CD's. Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "Silvershadow" To: Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 7:57 AM Subject: Re: [Misty web site]and Mistyakes > > --- Brentie wrote: > > about the mp3's i myself would never buy one of > > misties cd's im not a big fan of that kinda music > > but > > i am a big fan of misty so what it comes down to is > > would misty rather have me not listen to her lyrics > > at > > all oooooorrrrrrr haveme listen to them but not get > > royalties for it > > > Well if you don't like the Music then it doesn't > really matter does it? > Personaly I LOVE the music but it would cost me a > small fortune to attempt to even get ONE of her CD's. > Only way I have of hearing anything off the CD's was > to download the MP3's. I would adore to find a cheap > way to own the CD's though. Costs me enough just to > get her books now though... > > > > ===== > Zhai'hellava > > ~Silvershadow~ > Chocobo of Legend > Wielder of the Sacred SPOON > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 21:49:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Silvershadow To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: After Midnight Message-ID: <20010717044935.5128.qmail-+AT+-web4503.mail.yahoo.com> --- Misty's Secretary wrote: > > On a slightly different note, it's becoming common > practise on the bar to > snippet pieces of upcoming books (maybe the first > chapter or two, that sort > of thing). Would this be a good thing to send out to > the list? Would it > spoil the books for you to have rough draft material > for you to examine, or > would you be champing at the bit to get hold of Skif > and Alberich ahead of > time, even if only in part? :-) > *waves hand in the air* oh! oh! oh! Can we PLEASE get stuff like that?!?! Can we PLEASE!!?? *big puppy dog eyes* ===== Zhai'hellava ~Silvershadow~ Chocobo of Legend Wielder of the Sacred SPOON __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 22:26:52 -0700 From: "Cat Ray" To: Subject: RE: After Midnight Message-ID: *delurks* Personally, even though I'm not very active on the list at the moment (coughs), I know that I would love to be able to read some of Misty's rough draft material. It can be hard to wait sooo long until the next book comes out-- I'd like to be able to read snippets if only to satisfy my impatience ;), despite them being rough drafts that are likely to be changed later. If this becomes a definite possibility-- then I say yes, yes, yes! As for which books... while I'm more drawn to Misty's Valdemar books, I have started reading her other series, and would be interested in getting anything that is offered. :) Cat [who thoroughly enjoyed reading the draft of "After Midnight"] -----Original Message----- From: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk [mailto:mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk]On Behalf Of Misty's Secretary Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 9:24 PM To: catray-+AT+-u.washington.edu Subject: After Midnight On a slightly different note, it's becoming common practise on the bar to snippet pieces of upcoming books (maybe the first chapter or two, that sort of thing). Would this be a good thing to send out to the list? Would it spoil the books for you to have rough draft material for you to examine, or would you be champing at the bit to get hold of Skif and Alberich ahead of time, even if only in part? :-) Would you just be interested in Valdemar stuff, or do you want (for example) Spirits White as Lightning snippets too? I'm not promising these things mind, I'm just suggesting that they may be possibilities once in a while.. Let me know how you all feel. "After Midnight" rough draft follows. Paul ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 22:32:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Aurora To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: After Midnight Message-ID: <20010717053233.28835.qmail-+AT+-web13506.mail.yahoo.com> --- Silvershadow wrote: > > --- Misty's Secretary > wrote: > > > > On a slightly different note, it's becoming common > > practise on the bar to > > snippet pieces of upcoming books (maybe the first > > chapter or two, that sort > > of thing). Would this be a good thing to send out > to > > the list? Would it > > spoil the books for you to have rough draft > material > > for you to examine, or > > would you be champing at the bit to get hold of > Skif > > and Alberich ahead of > > time, even if only in part? :-) > > > > > *waves hand in the air* oh! oh! oh! Can we PLEASE > get > stuff like that?!?! Can we PLEASE!!?? *big puppy dog > eyes* > > > ===== > Zhai'hellava > > ~Silvershadow~ > Chocobo of Legend > Wielder of the Sacred SPOON Oh, that would be lovely. Please! ~Rea Wildfire ===== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "It is not a fairy tale - it is true." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 00:37:20 -0500 (CDT) From: eliza77-+AT+-webtv.net (eliza) To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: After Midnight Message-ID: <1395-3B53CF10-146-+AT+-storefull-224.iap.bryant.webtv.net> woohooo !! loved it loved it loved it! lmao that short story was GREAT ! makes you wonder how she puts up with us constantly nagging her about this point or that point! liz ------------------------------------ "Three things preserve the love of your brother: To greet him with Salaam before he greets you, to allow him enough space where he can sit, and to call him with the dearest name to him." -- Umar ibnul Khattab http://community.webtv.net/eliza77/eliza77 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 00:07:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Silvershadow To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: [Misty web site]and Mistyakes Message-ID: <20010717070735.19024.qmail-+AT+-web4505.mail.yahoo.com> --- Misty's Secretary wrote: > www.firebirdarts.com is the source for the music. > You can get the cassettes > starting at $10, which hardly seems egregious to me > - it's cheaper than a > hardback book. > Yah, but I live in New Zealand where at the moment the exchange rate puts things at double to triple the price PLUS the cost to import... It's a headache. ===== Zhai'hellava ~Silvershadow~ Chocobo of Legend Wielder of the Sacred SPOON __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 09:18:11 +0200 From: "Sanne Hoogerwerf" To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: After Midnight Message-ID: Yes! More! Please! Begging sheep, Sanne. >From: "Misty's Secretary" Would you just be interested in Valdemar stuff, >or do you want (for example) Spirits White as Lightning snippets too? I'm >not promising these things mind, I'm just suggesting that they may be >possibilities once in a while.. > >Let me know how you all feel. > >"After Midnight" rough draft follows. > >Paul _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 20:08:01 +1200 (NZST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Sheridan=20Hoy?= To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Sword of Ice Message-ID: <20010717080801.39824.qmail-+AT+-web11002.mail.yahoo.com> Heyla listsibs, Firstly, thanks heaps Paul for posting "After Midnight" - I loved it ;) Question. Someone brought up Sword of Ice, and a story about a women who wanted to know why she hadn't been Chosen. Now, I have read the story, but the book is packed away in NZ, and the library doesn't have a copy, so could someone please put me out of my misery and tell me how the story ended. Many chocolate dipped strawberry-flavoured sheep to that (those) lovely person (people). Re Gwena and her continuous bombardment of Elspeth down one path, didn't it say somewhere - the text people will probably put me right - that Gwena was very young? Bright the Day, tamlin PS Paul, did you mention an Albrich story in your post along with the Skiff one? Was that a hint of things to come ;) _____________________________________________________________________________ http://messenger.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Messenger - Voice chat, mail alerts, stock quotes and favourite news and lots more! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 03:43:43 -0700 (PDT) From: "Li'nia Stormdancer" To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: RE: After Midnight Message-ID: <20010717104343.84268.qmail-+AT+-web13805.mail.yahoo.com> Heyla List-Sibs! First off, thanks to Paul for posting the snippet from the rough draft of "After Midnight". I loved it! I wonder if she really gets dreams like that though... lol And to answer his question, YES!, I would love to see other snippets from upcoming books. I wasn't aware until now that publishers (or others) put little pieces of rough drafts on-line; the only ones I was aware of were the ones in the back of books (you know, like reading at the end of the second book of a trilogy a snippet from the third). --- Cat Ray wrote: > As for which books... while I'm more drawn to > Misty's Valdemar books, I have started reading her >other series, and would be interested in getting > anything that is offered. :) Okay, noone flame me for this, but I am a MUCH bigger fan of some of her other non-Valdemar books. Don't get me wrong, I still love the Arrows Trilogy, the Storms Trilogy, and the Oath books, but I have to say that those are my favorite Velgarth books, and the only ones I could get into! I never could get into the stories of Vanyel or Elspeth, even though I've still read them umpteen times! (Yes, I have a job where boredom can run rampant, and ANY book will do, even if I'm not quite thrilled with it!) I love the books on Tannim, Di Tregarde, etc., although without a doubt, Tannim is my fave. So, please, noone throw nasty sheep my way for not liking Van or Elspeth... lol Death-by-chocolate sheep to all!! ===== ---<---<---<----+AT+- Li'nia Stormdancer -+AT+---->--->--->--- Peon to the Powers That Be, Goddess of All Things Possessed, & Caretaker of the Arena of Discussion and Dissention __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 08:21:17 -0400 From: "Barbara Slater" To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Greetings, y'all! Message-ID: Bright the day, listsibs! Loved the bit from 'After Midnight' - was just looking through the web last night, trying to find out Misty-info, and was disappointed to discover that firebirdarts apparently no longer has a Misty Q&A section. Has this been dissolved, or simply moved? BTW, where did the Lord Peter Wimsey clone pop in from? DeepRanger _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ End of MERCEDES-LACKEY Digest 2642 **********************************