In the living room Nye, editor Bill Fawcett (Nye's husband), illustrator Hamilton, and McCaffrey's son Todd Johnson discussed Pern with its creator and Hamilton sketched under her direction. įor the Pern guide, Nye explained in its introduction, her team (without Clouse) had visited McCaffrey two years earlier, for ten days during October 1987. Todd Cameron Hamilton and James Clouse were the illustrators for both Guides, as Hamilton had been for Roger Zelazny's Visual Guide to Amber published by Avon one year earlier. Then simultaneously November 1989, Ballantine Books published The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern by Nye with McCaffrey and Avon Books published Piers Anthony's Visual Guide to Xanth by Nye and Anthony. The first four were 'branching-path' gamebooks in the Crossroads Adventure series, two set on Pern and two in Xanth. Late in the eighties Nye wrote six companion books for the Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey and the Magic of Xanth series by Piers Anthony. She first wrote fiction for the 'Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine game' and the Role-Aids line of game supplements published by Mayfair Games. Her first published writings were technical articles on broadcasting in the magazine 'Video Action' during the 1980s. Nye says that she 'always told stories' to her younger brothers, cousins, and friends, and as a junior camp counselor. In 2008 she donated her archive to the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University Libraries. Since Asprin's death in 2008 she has continued that humorous fantasy series and she is now also writing sequels to his Dragons, or Griffen McCandles, contemporary fantasy series. Nye began collaborating with Robert Lynn Asprin on the MythAdventures series in 2003 with the publication of the collection Myth-told Tales and the novel Myth Alliances. She has been an instructor of the Fantasy Writing Workshop at Columbia College Chicago (2007) and she teaches the annual Science Fiction Writing Workshop at DragonCon. About one-third of her novels are collaborations, either as a co-author or as the author of a sequel. Her humorous series range from contemporary fantasy ( The Magic Touch and Mythology 101) to military science fiction ( Strong Arm Tactics and a new series beginning with View from the Imperium). She has specialized in science fiction or fantasy action novels and humor. She is the author or co-author of approximately forty published novels and more than 100 short stories. Jody Lynn Nye (born 1957 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American science fiction writer.

The Lady and the Tiger by Jody Lynn Nye