I met Mercedes Lackey many years ago at a filk event at a scifi con, before her first book was ever published (yeah, I'm that old). We also have several mutual friends in the fannish community.
She started off being somewhat sane and level-headed. However, as her Valdemar and Diana Tregarde series became popular, she got some unwanted attention (you know, *stalking*) from several so-called Neo-Pagans who took great offense to her books. Some felt that she was giving away too much information. Others felt that, since her writing did not match their individual belief system, she was in the wrong and needed to be shown the right path or outright stopped. Mercedes was understandably freaked-out by the vicious intent of some so-called fans, and has now taken a wary and suspicious approach towards fan contact.
I happen to be a 'mo and a Wiccan, I also have all of Mercedes Lackey's books from the Valdemar and Diana Tregarde universes. I appreciate her strengths with character development and dialogue, which makes up for her weaknesses in prose, pacing and endings. Mercedes takes great effort to include quality gay characters in many of her books.
I have seen outrageous behavior from fellow scifi fans and Neo-Pagans and do not blame Mercedes at all for her reluctance to be involved in fan interaction. This is a shame as she came directly from fannish circles and fostered her creativity through fanzines and filk writing.
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Date: 2005-02-21 05:11 pm (UTC)I met Mercedes Lackey many years ago at a filk event at a scifi con, before her first book was ever published (yeah, I'm that old). We also have several mutual friends in the fannish community.
She started off being somewhat sane and level-headed. However, as her Valdemar and Diana Tregarde series became popular, she got some unwanted attention (you know, *stalking*) from several so-called Neo-Pagans who took great offense to her books. Some felt that she was giving away too much information. Others felt that, since her writing did not match their individual belief system, she was in the wrong and needed to be shown the right path or outright stopped. Mercedes was understandably freaked-out by the vicious intent of some so-called fans, and has now taken a wary and suspicious approach towards fan contact.
I happen to be a 'mo and a Wiccan, I also have all of Mercedes Lackey's books from the Valdemar and Diana Tregarde universes. I appreciate her strengths with character development and dialogue, which makes up for her weaknesses in prose, pacing and endings. Mercedes takes great effort to include quality gay characters in many of her books.
I have seen outrageous behavior from fellow scifi fans and Neo-Pagans and do not blame Mercedes at all for her reluctance to be involved in fan interaction. This is a shame as she came directly from fannish circles and fostered her creativity through fanzines and filk writing.