MERCEDES-LACKEY Digest 2026 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Re: What's happening? by Kara Peterson 2) Re: What's happening? by Paustinnew-+AT+-aol.com 3) Misty Homepage and Hello. :) by Jaylor Telcontar 4) Re: Misty Homepage and Hello. :) by NightEagle 5) Re: Magic static by Elizabeth Hoffman 6) Re: Young Adult Fiction by dennis-+AT+-jmf.org.ph ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 01:22:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Kara Peterson To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: What's happening? Message-ID: <19990720052240.10952.rocketmail-+AT+-web601.yahoomail.com> --- Amy Trujillo wrote: > Is listproc down again? > Hello, Amy. I'm not sure what to expect with the list, since I just signed up for it. how much mail a day should I expect? So far this is the only one. I'm reading Owlsight right now- what was your latest Lackey read? Kara _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free -+AT+-yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 03:38:32 EDT From: Paustinnew-+AT+-aol.com To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: What's happening? Message-ID: I think it's just a slow week. Anything new on the horizon for Lackey? I thought the Black Swan was interesting -- but not as good as some of her others. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 06:32:47 -0400 From: Jaylor Telcontar To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Misty Homepage and Hello. :) Message-ID: Since the list seems to be coming semi-alive again (is everyone on vacation or what? ;P) I thought I'd repeat my post. Good afternoon fellow listsibs. :) No, you have probably never heard of me before, but I have been a member of this list for a long while now. Mostly I lurk, not having enough time to really join in with the conversations. I very much enjoy reading everything that is sent my way, though . Anyway, to the point of this email, with all the time I've been here, no one has ever mentioned an *Official* Misty homepage. Well, as I was searching on SFFnet, lo and behold! there she was! Apparently, Misty does have an official page, which she share with Larry Dixon and Mark Shepherd. It's called "Highflight Arts and Letters" and can be found at this address: http://www.sff.net/people/Highflight/ It's a new site, I gather, but it's quite interesting. :) Misty has a FAQ up, which explains alot about submitting works to Editors with the hope of being published. It also states that Misty planed on finishing the new Elvenbood/Elvenbane story (called Elvenborn) by February.. So I suspect it'll be out in the not-tooo..-distance future. :) I'll apologize ahead of time if I'm repeating already known information, but I figured since I hadn't known, there must be some other out there who doesn't either. :) ..Jaylor Telcontar.. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 04:15:43 -0700 From: NightEagle To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: Misty Homepage and Hello. :) Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990720041543.007ab100-+AT+-gci-net.com> Thank you so much for the SFF page info!! I had no idea Misty was from Indiana.. thats where Im from... makes me like her all the more... its a great page and thinks for the info. Im still in search for the AotQ and the last 2 gryphon books... can anyone please tell me, once again- as I erase everything after I read it, what books Tarma and Kethry began in?? And the author of course... Speaking of Kethry,, she was white winds, where would I find info on the other schools of magic? Thanks.. Nighteagle It is...clear that knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be. – Albert Einstein, Out of My Later Years ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 17:41:47 +0100 (British Summer Time) From: Elizabeth Hoffman To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: Magic static Message-ID: It just popped into my head that if you've got a lot of mages working around the same time in one area wouldn't you get a lot of magic static. A bit like the static you get from your computer screen. And how do long term spells work? I've got this image of spells failing because the local magic memory banks are overful and only spells which act now and finish (acute not chronic) could be done. Sorry about the English, you can tell I was inspired by one clogged up computer. ---------------------- Welcome to computer aided insanity. Liz Hoffman E.G.Hoffman-+AT+-soton.ac.uk ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 00:05:40 +0000 From: dennis-+AT+-jmf.org.ph To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: Young Adult Fiction Message-ID: Hi there. > But here is a legitimate question--what age group > would most of you reccomend Misty for? I > mean, typically...? Personally, I don't think that there is any hard and fast age when you should start introducing Misty's work. I started reading books from the adult section of the library when I was ten, and I will probably read my favorite children's books till the day I die. Within certain limits, what you give people to read is determined mostly by interests. After that, things become very subjective. Generally, if you think the book might give the person nightmares, it probably isn't a good idea to recommend it to them. And what causes nightmares varies widely from person to person. > Does anyone else think that the > majority of YA fiction is really, really > bad? Aaagh! I'm glad that I > was advanced in my reading and reading the > so-called highschool level books when I was > twelve, rather than at the age they are > recomended. I totally agree with you. Fortunately, no one in my family got into that stuff. Unfortunately, friends of the family did; and, being the opinionated type that I am, I was hard put to keep civil and not start all sorts of arguments. I did make sure that my best friends were thoroughly exposed to decent books. I must admit, at times I feel like a book pusher, getting as many people hooked on my favorite authors as I can. Wind to thy wings, Sara "No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally (and often far more) worth reading at the age of fifty... The only imaginative works we ought to grow out of are those which it would have been better not to have read at all." C.S. Lewis ------------------------------ End of MERCEDES-LACKEY Digest 2026 **********************************