Thank you so much for accepting my friend request.

The first time I read your books, I was still in elementary school. I'm 24 years old now. Since then, I've kept up with your release of new series and novels. I've reread each countless times and I always love the strength and uniqueness that each of your characters hold (though I think my favorite character might be Kel!). I've collected your books both in hardcopy and have finally purchased all of them for my kindle so I can take all of the books with me. I'm so excited to see that you are working on new material regarding Numair.

Thank you for giving such a gift through your writing as well as your unwavering push to add your voice and thoughts in real world issues !

Thanks for accepting my friend request, Tamora! Your Immortals and Song of the Lioness quartets were perennial favorites to me as a young reader. Thank you for making such compelling, well written stories!

Thank you for accepting my friend request! I started reading the Song of the Lioness series a few weeks ago and we love it. I am happy to see a female heroine in a male-dominated genre too :)

Awesome seeing you again at Conbust, Tammy! One of your panels made me laugh so hard I cried, so thanks for that. :) On another note, I've been inspired by your talks and books again so here's hoping I can finally finish the novel I've been working on for the past 2 years and do something with it.

Much love!

Aerin wrote: "May I ask how you rate your books here on Goodreads? Are books that merit 5 stars ones you'd recommend others read, or will you give 5 stars to a well-written book that you personally did not like..."

Aerin, I would never give five or four stars to a book I personally didn't like. Three, yes--three is my grudging admission mark, or my "I liked this but not in a powerful way" mark. If it has four or five, though, I liked it a great deal, and if it has five, I was over the moon for it. If they're older books for younger readers, I may rate it for how I felt about it then, not now, but that's the only exception.

And I honestly don't expect people to like everything I do. Somethings I like very strange things, and you may have noticed I like a very wide range of books!

Tammy

Samiha! wrote: "Ms. Pierce,

Hello! I'm one of your many, many teen fans and just thought I'd write this message. :) Thank you so much for accepting my friend request! I've been your fan for a few years, since I f..."

Samiha,

It's always so pleasurable to have created another addict! Good luck with your book--I hope it keeps going well, and that you write many more!

Tammy

Jess wrote: "Mrs. Pierce,

I've been wanting to thank you for years not only for your fabulous books, but also for my best friend. You see, when I started high school I was very shy and was recovering from ma..."

Jess, I always love these stories--I don't think there's anything more valuable than a friend who shares your favorite books!

Tammy

Mrs. Pierce,

I've been wanting to thank you for years not only for your fabulous books, but also for my best friend. You see, when I started high school I was very shy and was recovering from many years of bullying at my grade school. One day I carried First Test into my 3rd period class, and a girl came up to me. Her first words to me were, "Oh My God! You love Tamora Pierce too??" Ten years later, we are still best friends and we have you to thank. Your books not only provide strong role models for young girls, but they also bring people together. I hope that your books will continue to introduce best friends for many years to come.

Ms. Pierce,

Hello! I'm one of your many, many teen fans and just thought I'd write this message. :) Thank you so much for accepting my friend request! I've been your fan for a few years, since I first read your Immortals series. I wasn't even a fantasy fan at the time but it sucked me in and I was absolutely intrigued. I couldn't get enough of those books. I then went on to read the Alanna series and realized I should have read those first... Haha. I loved those just as much, if not more!! You've inspired me so much, too. After reading those first few treasure troves, I was 100% inspired to write a fantasy novel of my own and, being a budding writer, I started! I'm now 11 chapters into it and I love to pick up one of your books if I get stuck on it. Writing is one of my very favorite pastimes, let me tell you. I feel it's a gateway to the imagination and that just opens so many doors! I love having the control and being able to think up my own characters and story-lines. Anyhow, I just wanted to thank you so much. :) It would mean so much if you replied! Even just to say "hello", because I know you're tremendously busy.

Thank you!
I look forward to more books from you. :)
Samiha Dib

May I ask how you rate your books here on Goodreads? Are books that merit 5 stars ones you'd recommend others read, or will you give 5 stars to a well-written book that you personally did not like?

From yet another rabid fan,
Aerin

Hello,
I really enjoy your books!
I see that you have read many many books, and I was wondering what your top ten or so books that you ever read were.

Thanks!

i would just like to say your books are amazing and have been a huge part of my teenage years me my sister and mother have loved everyone we read they are amazing.

Thanks for adding me back. :) It's fun to see someone with more listed books-read than I have - though you've had just over twice as long to read 'em - but oh, I really need to catalogue all of mine. I inherited a lot from my mother, but since I moved to a city with a ton of second-hand bookshops, I've tripled my shelves from 1,000 to 3,000.

I love your Books! I am reading the LADY KNIGHT right now and i it great! I love all your books! So far I have read the allana series, the immoral series, and almost finished with the protector of the small!!!!!!!

YOU ARE AN AMAZING AUTHOR!
unfortunetly i read the protecter of the small first then alanna and now in the middle of the immortals...and not making any progress....

Hello! I have a question for you, my favorite author. :) I recently was at one of your author appearances, where much of the time was spent by you answering questions from the audience of devoted fans. I had - still have- a question but during the event was too chicken to raise my hand and say it out loud.

(sorry for my long winded description)

Okay,so I am an aspiring writer. (Yes, how cringingly unoriginal,I know.) And of course, I'm going off to college in little less than a year - and I am wondering, what was your major in college?

I mean, I really want,more than anything, to just do what I love and get a degree in creative writing. However, this may not be good if I am a horrible author and/or need another job between working on books. (Or if I simply cannot get published) Thus, I am of course asking what you did as a major during your college years.

So yes. That is my question which I was too scared to ask earlier. Thanks & have a wonderful day! :)

Thanks for adding me, I adore your books, especially the Alanna series!

Thank you for adding me, Ms. Pierce! =) I really love your work! Your books have been favorites of mine for many years!

Thank you for the add, Ms. Pierce! I'm beyond stoked. :]

I was wondering if you would ever consider writing another book about Keladry. I feel like she's still got lots to do, that girl!

omg! thanks for the add mrs.pierce!

I LOVE UR BOOKS!!!! especially the song of the lioness seies and aly's books! they were awsome!

happy birthday!

I'm reading the Protector of the Small Series again, and I have to say this is my favorite series of them all.That's not to say that I don't love all the powerful women in all your stories. Which I do! But First Test was the first book I ever read by you. Kel was the one that lead me to read them all and I absolutely fell in love with them. I can say that reading them again now that I am older, gives me more an understanding in ife. I loved it in high school, and now college I have a better perspective on the struggles of life. I love Kel's discpline of herself and her determination above all. And I have been trying to applied that to my life. It's working so far. :)
Thank you for sharing your stories and proving that women can be more than what society has demanded from us. We can be great.

Mary wrote: "Thanks so much for adding me. I just wanted to say that I love your books, all of them. I think it is amazing to read the works of someone who places importance on strong, witty, and fierce femal..."

i agree and i am utterly desperate to read it

Thanks for adding me as a friend! ^_^

Dear Ms. Pierce,

I own all Kel, Daine, Alanna and Aly books and have loved your literature many a year, re-reading them about fifty times each. You are by far my favorite author!
Sincerely,
Olivia (and her kitty Whitey)

I just finished re-reading Bloodhound and it was even better the second time! im so excited for Mastiff!

Thank you so much for accepting my friend request I'm absolutely ecstatic that I'm your friend I never though I would get the chance to meet you and Im on the edge of my chair waiting for Mastiff to come out (yay rosto).
Thank you,
Charlotte

Dear Ms. Pierce,
I'm still starstruck to be your friend on Goodreads so I mostly lurk, but I recently finished the Immortal series and just had to tell you how much I love your books! I thought Beka Cooper was my all time favorite character, but I think Daine might have edged her out just a little! And I have had a crush on all your male leads but Numair is now my absolute favorite. Whenever I read any of your books I always end with a happy sigh always slightly regretful that I'm done. Fortunately for me, I know I can always read them again.

best regards,

Ellen Oh

Thanks for creating some of my most favourite literary women and men! :)

When I was a teenager, I got purple contacts so I could look like Alanna. Not sure I achieved that, exactly, but... :D

I just finished, Will of the Empress. Wow. It's easily my favorite of the Circle Series, and I think maybe my favorite of all your other books! Your astounding!! :)

Just finished Bloodhound! AMAZING!

Lillian wrote: "You are absolutely amazing. I'm sure you hear that a lot from other people, but I just had to tell you myself. I almost fainted when I saw an email titled "you are now friends with Tamora". I don't..."

Lillian, thanks! I hope you always feel this way about my girls--and I'm working away at MASTIFF!

Tammy

You are absolutely amazing. I'm sure you hear that a lot from other people, but I just had to tell you myself. I almost fainted when I saw an email titled "you are now friends with Tamora". I don't want to freak you out or anything, but you, Tamora Pierce, glanced at my name(hopefully)! I feel so honored. You probably have no idea how many lives you have changed by writing these lovable intelligent heroines. I have no idea how you make them so real, but I'm glad you did. Thank you so much for opening my eyes to Alanna, Kel, Daine, Aly, and Beka. Can't wait for Mastiff!

Thank you so much for adding me as a friend! I adore your Tortallan books, they are the books I reread most often. Tortall is one of my favorite worlds to get lost in, and I am thrilled to know that you are writing more about Tortall.

I also can't wait to read your National Novel Writing Month pep talk (I am participating again this year!). I love both reading and writng.

Are you coming to Arizona anytime soon? I would love to meet you in person!

I am completely obsessed with your books. I just finished rereading Terrier and I think I just may go crazy since there are 53 holds on Bloodhound at my library. Thank you for writing such wonderful books!

Meeting you at Sirens in October and reading Alanna now for first time. Why didn't I read it sooner?!?!?

Tamora--

I'm currently reading Trickster's Choice, and I am finding myself more and more entranced by your tales and wishing I'd written them, or to the same effect yet eighty-times greater, that they were really history of our world.
You are by far the very best author on the world, and I give you an quintillion thumbs up multiplied my the trillions plus...
Long story short, I love your writing.

Athena wrote: "Hi Tamora.I finished the Alanna series and i just wanted t let you know that they were briliant and I can't wait to read more. :)"

Thanks, Hena!

Hi Tamora.I finished the Alanna series and i just wanted t let you know that they were briliant and I can't wait to read more. :)

Thank you so much for adding me as a friend. I admire your writing very much, and the stories greatly. I have had to loan them from the library, so I have not gotten to all of them yet, but I will.

Hello, Tamora. I just finished reading your novel Bloodhound and I wanted to let you know that I loved it! I can't wait to read more of your books.

Tammy, congrats on making #1 on the NYT list with Bloodhound!!
Cinda

Hello Tamora. Wow you read a lot of books! And I thought I read a lot. I think it is cool that you still take time to read even though you are probably VERY VERY busy.

Anneke wrote: "Hello from het Nederlands! Have you been to Europe yet?"

Sadly, no. The closest I have come is England and Scotland. I wish my Danish, Swedish, German, and Dutch publishers would combine resources to bring me to Europe!

Hello from het Nederlands! Have you been to Europe yet?

Fran wrote: "Whoops, my apologies, I have indeed put the wrong link there. The correct link to my Terrier review is: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

The Terrier and Bloodhound reviews are sort of..."

Thanks for the revised link--I did some reply commenting, including some bits of how things came about in TERRIER, that I thought you might like. While I have no intention of doing the journal format again, and I want a rest from first person, I think the next Tortall venture will still have some of the freshness you liked. It's two books about Numair, and the first one takes place entirely outside Tortall. The second one will give us a peek at what life was like in the realm during those ten years between the Alanna and Daine quartets, when Numair was trying to stay alive and fed.

Anything we write is good for our own writing, and talking with other writers about work helps us, too. I have done a lot of reviewing in the past, and it always helped me with my own stuff.

Many thanks again!

Tammy

Whoops, my apologies, I have indeed put the wrong link there. The correct link to my Terrier review is: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

The Terrier and Bloodhound reviews are sort of linked, because I wrote them consecutively. I go into more depth on my thoughts about your writing in the Terrier review.

Thanks so much for reading, and commenting upon, my review. I was a little bowled over! I put a lot of thought into both, and I feel it was good for my writing too. Very much looking forward to reading (and reviewing ;) Mastiff.

All the best!

Fran wrote: "I'm pleased to hear that Mastiff will be coming out before the Yanjing book. I've just finished Bloodhound and loved it (review up here: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/.... I also review..."

Thanks so much for saying you think my writing's improving. I hope it is, but I'm a little too close to it to judge. I really appreciate it when it's something a reader chooses to comment on without me asking.

And you'll see I read the BLOODHOUND review. I tried to read the TERRIER one, but it went to another book you reviewed.

Thanks so much, Fran!

I'm pleased to hear that Mastiff will be coming out before the Yanjing book. I've just finished Bloodhound and loved it (review up here: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/.... I also reviewed Terrier here: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...) so I'm glad there isn't such a long wait before Mastiff.

I was floored by Terrier when I first read it, I honestly feel you've surpassed yourself with the quality of writing in Terrier (and now Bloodhound). Thanks.

Hope the recuperations are going well. My Best Wishes.