To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to be walked on. --Shin'a'in saying

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.