In a message dated 11/22/2002 8:38:02 AM Eastern Standard Time, Mia McDavid <mia_mcdavid at attbi.com> writes: > The Brooks thread reminds me: have you all read Diana > Wynne Jones' Rough Guide to Fantasy? It's a glossary of > everything Terry Brooks would ever need to construct Yet > Another Shananana Novel. Great book, but it might be easy to find using the title _The Tough Guide to Fantasyland_. And while Brooks is likely one of the reasons she wrote it, I think it was aimed at other authors like David Eddings. At least, there were many entries I didn't recognise, and Eddings is the only major fantasy author I'm not familiar with. _Dark Lord_ wasn't bad, but it didn't make me rush out and read more of her stuff. --KG