Mercedes Lackey
Overview
 
Mercedes "Misty" Lackey (born June 24, 1950) is a best-selling American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 author of fantasy novels
Fantasy literature
Fantasy literature is fantasy in written form. Historically speaking, literature has composed the majority of fantasy works. Since the 1950s however, a growing segment of the fantasy genre has taken the form of films, television programs, graphic novels, video games, music, painting, and other...

. Many of her novels and trilogies are interlinked and set in the world of Velgarth
Velgarth
Velgarth is the planetary setting created by Mercedes Lackey, the author of the Valdemar Saga novels. The continents are not named. The Valdemar Saga primarily focuses on the story of the nation of Valdemar, and according to Mercedes Lackey’s , there are twenty-seven novels and six anthologies.-...

, mostly in and around the country of Valdemar. Her Valdemar novels form a complex tapestry of interaction between human and non-human protagonists with many different cultures and social mores
Mores
Mores, in sociology, are any given society's particular norms, virtues, or values. The word mores is a plurale tantum term borrowed from Latin, which has been used in the English language since the 1890s....

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Her other main world is one much like our own; but it includes clandestine populations of elves, mages, vampires, and other mythical beings.
Quotations

We have more televangelists per square mile here in this part of the country than I really care to think about. Maybe somebody out there will figure out how to spray for them.

Introduction to "Small Print", Fiddler Fair (Baen, 1998), p. 18

And when it comes down to cases, everything written is at least in part a fantasy. Except maybe for the national budget. That's horror.

"A Q&A with Mercedes Lackey...",The Fairy Godmother (Luna, 2004), after the epilogue.

 
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