We knew when we writing that TSR owned the rights. We were writing at a precarious time for TSR, with people being laid off, including at one point most of the marketing department. Rumors that the company was going bankrupt surfaced weekly. We loved Dragonlance and Tracy and I concentrated on...
Although we didn't know a lot of what was happening at the time, TSR was going bankrupt. Summer Flame was originally supposed to be three books involving the search for the magic that is lost at the end of Summer Flame. Management decided that SF would only be one book and that since Tracy and I...
We did have some idea that the world was Earth as you discovered. I was not consciously thinking of the racial make-up, however. Although that could have crept in without my knowing it! Thanks! Margaret
About Raistlin and levels, I was a writer first and a gamer second. I played D&D, to this day, someone has to tell me what dice to roll. We tried to stick to levels at the beginning of the novels, because we thought that would be important to the reader. We found out it wasn't. They didn't care...
It's a different kind of fantasy. Not your standard dwarves, elves, etc. It did hit the NY Times list when it first came out. It was fun to write! Thanks! Margaret