Tamora Pierce
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December 13, 1954
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female
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South Connellsville, Pennsylvania, The United States
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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Children's Books, Mystery & Thrillers
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medieval history, Tolkein, Anne McCaffrey, comics, Star Trek (classic), martial arts, Barbara Hambly, Elizabeth I, samurai culture, Middle East/central Asia, true crime, military history, natural science, animals, Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, feminism
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about this author
First of all, though I would love to join groups, I'm going to turn them all down. I just don't have the time to take part, so please don't be offended if I don't join your group or accept an invitation. I'm not snooty--I'm just up to my eyeballs in work and appearances!
Also, don't be alarmed by the number of books I've read. When I get bored, I go through the different lists and rediscover books I've read in the past. It's a very evil way to use up time when I should be doing other things. Obviously, I've read a lot of books in 54 years!
I was born in South Connellsville, PA. My mother wanted to name me "Tamara" but the nurse who filled out my birth certificate misspelled it as "Tamora". When...more
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Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness, #1) by Tamora Pierce (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.22 — 5,899 ratings — published 1983 28 editions |
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In the Hand of the Goddess (Song of the Lioness, #2) by Tamora Pierce (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.19 — 5,033 ratings — published 1984 20 editions |
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Lioness Rampant (Song of the Lioness, #4) by Tamora Pierce (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.21 — 4,839 ratings — published 1988 13 editions |
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The Woman Who Rides Like a Man (Song of the Lioness, #3) by Tamora Pierce (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.11 — 4,826 ratings — published 1986 19 editions |
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Wild Magic (Immortals, #1) by Tamora Pierce (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.21 — 4,237 ratings — published 1992 19 editions |
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Trickster's Queen (Daughter of the Lioness, #2) by Tamora Pierce (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.18 — 3,899 ratings — published 2004 14 editions |
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Wolf-Speaker (Immortals, #2) by Tamora Pierce (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.10 — 3,744 ratings — published 1994 16 editions |
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Emperor Mage (Immortals, #3) by Tamora Pierce (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.20 — 3,583 ratings — published 1995 15 editions |
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The Realms of the Gods (Immortals, #4) by Tamora Pierce (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.19 — 3,556 ratings — published 1996 10 editions |
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First Test (Protector of the Small, #1) by Tamora Pierce (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.09 — 3,633 ratings — published 1999 17 editions |
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"So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep."
— Tamora Pierce (In the Hand of the Goddess)
— Tamora Pierce (In the Hand of the Goddess)
"They always forget the last part of that saying: curiosity killed the cat but satisfaction brought it back" its something to that effect anyway."
— Tamora Pierce
— Tamora Pierce
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| Megan's democrati...: Nominations time! | 7 | 11 | Apr 29, 2009 12:06AM | |
| Building a SciFi/...: Favorite Fantasy Written by a Woman | 41 | 213 | Jun 06, 2009 07:24AM | |
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| Book Haven: List of Rereadables | 7 | 45 | Jul 09, 2009 01:55PM | |
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| Book Haven: What are some of your favorite YA books | 49 | 80 | Jul 30, 2009 08:57AM | |
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"The question is always the answer, provided you want the answer badly enough."
— Barbara Hambly (Time of the Dark)
— Barbara Hambly (Time of the Dark)
"The things a man sees when he ain't got a gun.--Watson the Caretaker"
— Stephen King
— Stephen King
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"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain
— Mark Twain
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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!
Thank you for adding me!! The Song of the Lioness books pretty much introduced me to the wonderful world of fantasy books years ago, and I've been reading your work ever since. Thank you so much, and keep writing! :)
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.
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!
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/479...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/479...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/452... 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/452... I also reviewed Terrier here: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/452...) 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.
Heh. Mastiff and the Yanjing book are the two I most want to read right now, so I feel like I win out twice over. :-) (I enjoyed Bloodhound, by the way! :-))
I was very excited to read that you are working on finishing the Beka Cooper series first. I have been dying for the second book to be published!
And I have to ask- Do you know if you'll be doing any appearances in Massachusetts anytime soon?
Mary wrote: "What book are you currently working on? Another Circle Reforged?"No, my publishers and I decided I should finish off the Beka Cooper series first, so I'm doing the last book in that, MASTIFF. The Yanjing book, for Briar, Rosethorn, and Evvy, will come after that.
Livey wrote: "Hello, Tamora!Your my favorite author. I absolutely LOVE your books so much! I met you at a book festival, and at the time I had never read any of your books. but now I'm so excited to have met yo..."
Livey, thanks so much! I'm honored to have inspired so much passion in you, and to have given inspiration to a woman capable of so much passion! So often people sneer at enthusiasm, when anyone with half a brain knows that it's the people who have it that change the world. I hope you always feel this way about my books and about ideas in general.
I hope we get to meet again one day!
Many thanks again,
Tammy Pierce
Hello, Tamora!Your my favorite author. I absolutely LOVE your books so much! I met you at a book festival, and at the time I had never read any of your books. but now I'm so excited to have met you even more.
I love your writing and would someday love to be a writer like you. Your such an inspiration to me, and your work as an author is incredible and extremely memorable. I love everything that you say, express, and otherwise write in your books. their exciting, tragic, nail biting, (even though I don't nail bite) and I couldn't stop reading them. In fact, the day I got your book from the festal I had finished it the next day. the next day I bought the second, and finished it in two/one (can't remember)days.
Please keep up the good work, your really an incredible woman.
-Livey
I had the pleasure of seeing you on the SciFi, Fantasy, and Supernatural authors panel at NYComicCon. I loved what you had to say about not feeling bad about having "things" that you get obsessed with for a time and then put away, because they become part of a mental file cabinet for your writing! Suddenly all of my "things" seem like possibilities instead of failures. Inspiring!
Thank you so much for the goodreads add, I feel very honored, especially as I really enjoyed the Alanna books as a girl (how I longed for purple eyes!). You are an inspiration to all of us trying to write books with strong girl heroes!
I'm not up to a whole lot. My kids have been keeping me pretty busy since we have actually had some nice weather! Have a great weekend!
Pleasure crossing swords with you! =)
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thank you for adding me, tamora. it is such an honor! my debut comes out in less than three months and i'm on a roller coaster ride of emotion. you're an inspiration!
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 female characters. Keep up the good work. I am anxiously awaiting the arrival of Bloodhound.
Sanah wrote: "hi Ms.Pierce. i had some questions about writing a book, is it okay if i asked you?"Did you ever get my reply to this?
Tammy
Janeen-san wrote: "HAVE YOU EVER READ THE EARTHSEA BOOKS? ARE THEY GOOD?"They're classics now. They're interesting, and they're not like any other fantasy you're going to read. Are you going to give them a try?
Tammy
Wow!!! Hi Tamora Pierce! I'm so glad you accepted my friend request. I really like your books. Yay for fellow fantasy writers! >< ttyl-Brigid :)
Okay, but it may take me a while to answer, because I leave Friday for a week of school visits. Are there any questions you have that can be answered by material I've already posted on my webpage? I put a lot of stuff there for other writers so they wouldn't have to be dependent on waiting for me to reply.Otherwise, ask away, and I'll answer when I can!
Tammy
