Interviews

WIZARDS OF THE COAST - Interviewed by Hans Delbruch (Mark Sehestedt)

Wizards: What were the biggest influences on you as a writer?

Marcy: All the usual suspects -- Tolkien, Howard, Lieber, Bradbury. But some newer voices, too, like Stephen R. Donaldson and Guy Gavriel Kay. And some you wouldn't necessarily expect, like the Brontë sisters and Thomas Wolfe. And then there are the myriad Newbery Award winners I grew up reading -- L'Engle, Alexander, Speare, Paterson. A good book stays with you long after you've put it back on the shelf, and there are stories I read over twenty years ago that still affect me today. That's the sort of legacy (no pun intended) I hope to leave with my own writing. Read more...

MANIA.COM - Interviewed by Pat Ferrara

Mania: In your own words what is Legacy of Wolves about?

Marcy: On the surface, it’s a murder mystery. People are dying in the Thranish city of Aruldusk, and my inquisitive – a dwarf named Greddark d’Kundarak – is hired to figure out who is doing the killing, and why. But the novel’s tagline is “We are all forged in the fires of our past,” and it’s also about the legacies our families leave us, how we can either choose to be defined by the past, or to break free of it…and what happens when we do, because it’s never as easy to walk away from our history as we think it’s going to be, and sometimes that history doesn’t want to be left behind and comes looking for us. Read more...