Then she lived on the very hot, very damp southern edge of North Carolina, where she only had to wish for a garden and the rain would fall, granting her vegetables, flowers, herbs, and kudzu. Lots of kudzu. Now she lives in warm (and sometimes very hot, but almost always dry) New Mexico, near the foothills of the Sandia Mountains. She finds it just right. Nancy is the author of eleven fantasy novels, most recently Prisoner of Haven in the Dragonlance series and from Margaret Weis Productions, The Lost Sword, a choose-your-own-adventure book for kids. Nancy has also written three dozen or so short stories, in the fantasy, science fiction, and horror genres, some for children and most for adults.Unlike other synopses of mine, this for The Jewels of Elvish is very short indeed. That’s because I wrote it after having completed the novel. When I’m proposing a novel I’ve not yet written, I spend a good deal of time “working out” the story for myself and for an editor. While the novel I ultimately write won’t be exactly as outlined, the initial synopsis shows an editor (and me!) that I have a fully developed story to tell, and have already discovered one way to tell it.
