Tag: #Dragonriders

I’m guessing that I can’t claim one of my own books. It would be hard to pick only one of them, anyway. Oh, you want to know?

 

I’d choose Wolves’ Gambit. It’s probably the book that has sold the least, but I think the plot and characterization is among the best of what I’ve written. (Although The Ranger’s Dog Tags comes in a close second.) I really like Tasha, my main character, but I have a fondness for the underdog. Which she is. I’ve considered writing another story featuring her, but it hasn’t happened – yet.

 

Now, on to my real answer.

 

Anne McCaffery remains one of my favorites, specifically the Harper Hall trilogy of the Dragonriders of Pern series. Yes, my favorites don’t include a dragonrider as the main character! I told you I have a thing for the underdog. By the time McCaffrey wrote this stories, she’d established her world and was able to concentrate on the plot more than the environment around them. Frankly, if you look back to her dragonriders as a whole, you can see how rough her first few books were, and how much smoother her later stories flowed. (I won’t include the books written by her son in the analysis – they don’t live up to her standards, in my opinion. Even including the non-dragonrider books McCaffrey wrote, The Harper Hall books remain my favorite. 

 

I’ll be dropping in on our other authors as time permits, but I hope you’ll go visit them, too. All you need to do is follow the links below.

 

That’s it for this week! As always, until next time, please stay safe.