Last Fall I got to read RA MacAvoy's latest book four months ahead of publication and then interview her. (I'd last met and talked with her in the early eighties.) It was published in this months Lightspeed Magazine.
R.A. MacAvoy's first novel won the Locus Poll's First Novel Award and hooked her the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Tea With the Black Dragon (1983, Bantam) is a contemporary fantasy, a hard-boiled detective mystery, and a love story. Its protagonists are a middle-aged musician and a centuries-old dragon now in human form. Tea was a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, Compton Crook, World Fantasy, and Philip K. Dick Awards and received a special citation from the Philip K. Dick jury. It was selected for David Pringle's Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels, An English-Language Selection, 1946-1987.
In this genre, that is what's known as a "good start."
Interview: R.A. MacAvoy by Steven Gould | Lightspeed Magazine.
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