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The Glass Dragon
The Dragon Nimbus #1
My first book, always my favorite because it was first. For many years this was a "Someday" book. I'd write it "someday" when I had time, when I had more writing skills, when I sold my first romance.... I never did sell the romances and probably won't now. I've found my home in fantasy and the world of the Dragon Nimbus Series.
First published December 1994
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ISBN: 0886776341
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The Perfect Princess
The Dragon Nimbus #2
This is one of those books that was a joy to write. The personalities of the characters never ceased to surprise me. At one point I didn't speak to either Mica or Rosie for nearly three weeks. But they won the arguement and the result is a delightful book that is probably the best written of the first three. Don't believe the bookstore if they try to tell you this is out of print. There's a distribution glitch we're trying to work out.
First published Nov 1995
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ISBN: 0886776783
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The Loneliest Magician
The Dragon Nimbus #3
Yaakke gave me nothing but trouble from day one of writing this book. I didn't understand my own son at fifteen, how was I supposed to figure out this kid's problem? Then about three drafts into it I had a major revelation. Yaakke's greatest need was to earn the right to a heroic name! Once I knew that, the book fell together and grew. But the best part of this book was working with the lace. I've been tatting for almost twenty years and working bobbin lace for at least fifteen. At last I had a chance to put my favorite obsession into a book.
First published September 1996
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ISBN: 0886777097
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The Wizard's Treasure
The Dragon Nimbus #4
At last I get to clear up unresolved problems with cats and princesses, missing journeyman and the matter of luck. You have to make your own. But who learns that and who falls by the wayside relying on the forces of fate. We were fortunate to have Luis Royo designing this cover, which seems to blend in with the others quite nicely.
First published October 2000
Reprinted!
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ISBN: 0886779138
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The Dragon's Touchstone
The Dragon Nimbus History #1
I was sorry to leave the time line of the Dragon Nimbus series with some issues unresolved - don't worry, the sequel to The Loneliest Magician is coming soon. But I had to figure out a lot more about the Dragon Nimbus History before I proceeded. So back in time we go, three hundred years to the time of Nimbulan, the Greatest Battlemage. He made the first covenant with the dragons. He has quite a journey before he finds solutions to civil war, fractured monarchy and pursuit of a lovely lady who keeps disappearing on him, just like a dragon.
First published June 1997
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ISBN: 0886777445
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The Last Battlemage
The Dragon Nimbus History #2
The Last Battlemage continues the story of Nimbulan and Myrilandel and their quest to bring peace to Coronnan and create a life together from opposite ends of the country. We journey into the legendary city of outlaws, Hanassa, and discover that dragons have more secrets than anyone dared imagine.
First published February 1998
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ISBN: 0886777747
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The Renegade Dragon
The Dragon Nimbus History #3
The Renegade Dragon delves further into the secrets of dragons within the outlaw city of Hanassa and brings young Powwell and Kalen full circle in discovering the true meaning of family. A lot of loose ends get tied up in this book. But there is still more to come in another volume.
First published November 1999
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ISBN: 0886778557
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The Hidden Dragon
The Star Gods #1
Operating on the wrong side of interstellar law, the O'Hara brothers found themselves in a life-or-death flight. They find what must be a lost or abandoned colony world inhabited by humans who had returned to a hunter-gatherer level of society. Here was a place where technology could make them seem like gods - and a land where they would remain trapped unless they could find a way to repair their ship.
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The Dragon Circle
The Star Gods #2
Who would emerge as the victor when the Terran Imperial Military Police tracked the O'Hara brothers to their magical hideaway?
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The Dragon's Revenge
The Stargods #3
The exciting conclusion to the Stargod Trilogy.
Caught between the Imperial Military Police and an inhuman foe bent on destruction
--and the entire world might pay the price.
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Guardian of the Balance
Merlin's Descendants #1
Guardian of the Balance is the story of Wren, Merlin's daughter and her rather stormy relationship with her father and the man who will become King Arthur. She does her best to preserve the old gods in her heart and in Britain while dealing with Saxon raids, her love for Arthur Pendragon, and a secretive father with his own vision of events to come.
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ISBN: 0886778263
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ISBN: 0886778751
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Guardian of the Trust
Merlin's Descendants #2
Guardian of the Trust centers around the events leading up to the Magna Carta in 1215. Resmiranda is the last of the proud Griffin family who trace their origins back to King Arthur and Merlin. She never wanted the responsibility for carrying on the family quest of preserving the family secrets of psi powers and earth magic. Now she must reconcile her "witch" powers with her faith in God and overcome her aversion to using them to uphold the ideals of Camelot.
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ISBN: 0886778743
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ISBN: 0886779952
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Guardian of the Vision
Merlin's Descendants #3
DAW wants to keep up this series with a new hardcover every year. We'll see if I can keep up with the schedule. Vision traces the stories of twin brothers of the Kirkenwood clan. One is a Catholic priest, the other a pagan willing to pay lip service to which ever religion is legal this year during the turbulent reign of Elizabeth I in England. The story deals with loyalty and foreign influences and the emergence of the nation state. But then the Pope and the king of Spain have other ideas. Add a new villain with an agenda of her own and the political and magical soup grows thicker by the minute.
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ISBN: 0886779944
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ISBN: 0756400716
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Guardian of the Promise
Merlin's Descendants #4
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The children from GUARDIAN OF THE VISION pick up the quest to keep England
safe from monsters and demons that threaten the peaceful reign of Elizabeth
I. They must battle the forces swarming around Mary Queen of Scots and her
rivalry with Elizabeth for the English Crown, and the religious wars in Europe
that spill over to fuel The Spanish Armada. With nightmares of werewolves,
Deirdre, the daughter of Father Griffin Kirwood, and her cousin Hal, one of
Donovan Kirkwood's twin sons, journey clandestinely to Paris to negate the
chaos begun by her mother. But time is running out and the werewolves are
coming from unexpected directions.
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Guardian of the Freedom
Merlin's Descendants #5
GUARDIAN OF THE Freedom, Merlin's Descendants #5
The ten years leading up to the American Revolution is one of the most exciting periods in our history. It's full of change and energy. People corresponded all over the world in a massive idea exchange. I had to bring Merlin's Descendants into the picture. I also had to learn to fence for this book. Now I'm addicted.
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Fate Fantastic
Stories of confronting, accepting, denying or escaping the workings of fate.
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ISBN13 9780756404406
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Treachery and Treason
"The Divi"
My short story "The Divi" appears in this Roc anthology, edited by Laura Anne Gilman and Jennifer Heddle. Finding my name on the front cover was quite a pleasant surprise.
Paperback available through Roc
ISBN 0451457781
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Olympus
"The Sword of Heracles"
Olympus: Anthology of short stories revolving around Greek and Roman myths and heroes. Edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Bruce D. Arthurs. I have a short story in it titled "The Sword of Heracles." This story jumps into the new series Merlin's Descendants. This is my first sale of short fiction and I kind of like the twist I gave it. This should still be available in large bookstores' back list.
First Published March 1998
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ISBN: 0886777755
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"Slipstreams"
Tales that cross over the edge of reality and into another...genre.
Mixes
of SF/F and Westerns, or mysteries, or romances, or something else.
My story: The Curse of the Pendragon combines historical, romance and fantasy.
Go back in time to the end of 13th C and relive the clash between Edward I
of England and the Jewish population, and his own Pendragon.
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"Little Red Riding Hood
In the Big Bad City"
Olympus: Original stories by Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Tanya Huff, Fiona Patton, Pamela Sargent, ElizaBeth Gilligan, Irene Radford, Jody Lynn Nye, Michelle West, and others.
Seventeen classic fairy tales are made enchantingly modern by some of today's hottest science fiction and fantasy authors, who set these tales in urban surroundings.
July 2004
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ISBN: 0756402336
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