The great love is gone. There are still little loves - friend to friend, brother to sister, student to teacher. Will you deny yourself comfort at the hearthfire of a cottage because you may no longer sit by the fireplace of a palace? Will you deny yourself to those who reach out to you in hopes of warming themselves at your hearthfire?

She divorced Tony Lackey and eventually married Larry Dixon. She owns several dolls many of which Mercedes Lackey has customized in the likenesses of her characters. She revealed her identity on a player-owned forum to join the efforts to save the servers from closing down.

Mercedes "Misty" Lackey (born June 24 1950) is a best-selling American author of fantasy novels. Her Valdemar novels form a complex tapestry of interaction between human and non-human protagonists with many different cultures and social mores.