But--" she tried not to wail, but her voice crept upward, anyway "--I want to go HOME--" "And I want a palace and a handsome, young prince who has an unnatural lust for old women, and neither of us are going to get what we crave, so let's concentrate on what we can do something about!" Granny said sharply.

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.