Moon Flights

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What a treat! To write an introduction for a writer whom I hold in high esteem. All her books are on my “comfort shelves.”

I think it was Bill Fawcett who first introduced me to Elizabeth Moon for her book, Sheepfarmer’s Daughter, the first volume of The Deed of Paksenarrion. Then, when I was looking for another collaborator to finish the Planet Pirates trilogy, I took him up on his suggestion of using EMoon—as she is respectfully known as in Dragonhold. Having read the first novel, I was certainly more than interested and she proved interested in writing Sassinak. With her background of service in the Marines—not that anyone regarding this tall slender woman with long black hair coiled on her pate would ever think she’d been a captain in the Marines. But she was willing to write with me and I was delighted. We actually met about then, at an Atlanta Dragoncon. We both felt that we must have known each other in some distant incarnation, as we were comfortable with each other very quickly. I certainly admired her work. I gave her a basic summary of what I thought the novel should contain and where I wanted to go with it. WOW! She took it and ran.

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