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Drakis on its way!

Early this morning, I woke up with the last few chapters of ‘Song of the Dragon’ waiting for me. Reading through this story again got me excited yet again about this story of Drakis — an insignificant slave of the mighty Rhonas elven empire and his amazing flight toward a destiny that he wants desperately […]

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Chained to the Galley … and Loving it!

I am currently chained to the first-draft galleys of the first book in my upcoming ‘Drakis’ series. It’s titled ‘Song of the Dragon’ and will be coming out this July. Before that can happen, however, I have to make the big push through the final editorial process. Part of that is going through the galley […]

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Secrets of the Dragon Booklist Review

We just got word of our Booklist review for Dragonships 2: Secret of the Dragon. Here’s what they had to say about the book which is premiering on March 13th: “The second volume in a classic war-of-the-gods saga proves Weis and Hickman’s total mastery of elements including hero Skylan—not totally admirable even if he is […]

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R. A. Salvatore & Margaret Weis on Dragonships

Our good friend R. A. Salvatore interviews Margaret Weis on our current ‘Dragonships’ series…

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Appearances News

The Leprecon in Dublin

I will be appearing at Leprecon — the 31st premiere Irish Gaming Convention held this March 12th through 14th or 2010 at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. I’ll be bringing with me a FEW copies of XDM: Xtreme Dungeon Mastery and be performing a fierce Killer Breakfast for any chancers muking about. We’ll also be doing […]

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The McMillan – Amazon War

There is an important battle being waged right now in the intellectual properties arena over ebooks. There’s a lot at stake here and while it revolves around money, it also deeply may affect the quality of the book you read … or may not get to read at all. It all started when a quiet, […]

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Books Thoughts

Giant Leap Sideways for the iPad

The media is all abuzz this morning about Apple’s announcement of the iPad. This latest example of chrome-laden technology is being touted as a ‘magical and revolutionary device at an unbelievable price.’ Cue trumpets. While I, too, was initially drawn like a moth to the pretty, pretty lights and shiny, moving pictures I quickly began […]

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Reflections on Dragonships

I’ve been rereading both of the first two Dragonships novels in preparation for launching into Book III. It may seem like a strange thing that an author needs to read their own book. Of course, Margaret does the primary writing of the text on nearly all of our joint collaborations and changes often take place […]

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Welcome to the new Tracy Hickman Official Website

We’re coming into a new year and, as you can see, there are many changes coming! Perhaps most exciting of all will be our implementation of an on-line Speculative Fiction Writing Seminar and Workshop program. We’ve been offering our writing workshops for several years now and will be making this curriculum available to you later […]