Some author careers culminate with a masterpiece but few launch their careers with one. R. A. MacAvoy’s Tea with the Black Dragon was a first novel and a masterpiece, and it gained her the 1983 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Would you say she was in good company if I told you that other winners of the award include Jerry Pournelle, Spider Robinson, Orson Scott Card, Lucius Shepard and Cory Doctorow?

Locus, the leading trade publication of the fantasy and science fiction field, called Tea with the Black Dragon “An astonishing fantasy debut.” But there were lots of astonishing novels to follow, and E-Reads has acquired every one of them including Twisting the Rope (the sequel to Tea), The Grey Horse and the “Lens of the World” trilogy consisting of Lens of the World, King of the Dead, and Belly of the Wolf. Coming your way are The Book of Kells and the Damiano Trilogy. All in all, a veritable bumper crop of fantasy masterpieces.

And by the way, her name is pronounced MACK-avoy.

– Richard Curtis