This I think I have learned: where there is love, the form does not matter, and the gods are pleased. This I have observed: what occurs in nature, comes by the hand of nature, and if the gods did not approve, it would not be there ~ Moondance k'Treva (Magic's Pawn)

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.