Letter from Brenda

Dear Todd,

I have been traveling to Pern for many years now and am very happy that you have joined in the journey. I have laughed, cried, been relieved, angry and sometimes confussed (that timing). Needless to say, my books are all worn and frayed from numerous visits.

Please tell Pern fans there will be an answer to the dangling questions. <

Where will Lessa and F’lar settle after the last fall? Where will the last fall occur? Does Lord Groughe live long enough to celebrate the happy event? (He is getting rather on in years.)Finally, does Toric and the Abominators get the justice they deserve?

Thank you for keeping the glows shining.

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Dear Brenda,

I’m so glad. Mum always used to say that the fraying of a book “shows that it’s loved.”

You ask good questions. Right now we’re all still getting things together in the world without Anne.

My sister, Georgeanne Kennedy, whom we all call ‘Gigi’ is the only other person besides myself to whom Mum entrusted the future of Pern.

Gigi, brave soul, is the only one of us kids who settled in Ireland so, naturally, she was the one who bore the brunt of the work of settling Mum’s affairs.

Such things are quite draining above and beyond dealing with grieving over the loss of a loved one.

Mum passed away at a time when she and I agreed that I should take a break from writing on Pern (“because otherwise you get stale”), so I have been busy with my own worlds and ideas.

I imagine that when one of us — Gigi or myself — finds the tug of Pern calling, we’ll respond.

Cheers,

Todd