I love the fact that you are writing the Dragon Series as well, I never want it to end. I would love to find out more on F’lessan and Tai. My big question is really to do with your mom. I wrote her and never recieved an answer. I was wondering how Mirrim managed to become a weyr leader. She is a green rider. If you could answer that I and my daughter (also a fan) would be grateful. Thank you for your time.

Marian,

Thank you. I don’t know if the series will never end but I have several stories that I want to tell on Pern.

Right now I’m working on the second draft of Dragonsblood, trying to bring out the very best in the book. Dragonsblood is set in the Third Pass and I’m so stuck into it that I don’t have time to consider anything else — and I don’t have an answer for you off the top of my head (except some niggling thought that this came up in either the Dolphins of Pern or All the Weyrs of Pern).

Perhaps someone else here knows the answer and would be kind enough to inform us.

— Todd