Upon reading Dragonsblood, Dragonheart, and the book in your hands, Dragongirl, though, Anne was so enchanted by the story Todd was crafting and the characters he was bringing to life that she asked his permission to join in the final drama of his tale of Pern.
We are extremely pleased that the follow-up to Dragongirl is once again going to feature a collaboration between mother and son, as Anne and Todd McCaffrey work together to bring you the next exciting book in the Pern series:
DRAGONRIDER
On sale May 2011
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
TODD MCCAFFREY is the bestselling author of the Pern novels Dragonsblood and Dragonheart, and the co-author, with his mother, Anne McCaffrey, of Dragon’s Kin, Dragon’s Fire, and Dragon Harper. A computer engineer, he currently lives in Los Angeles. Having grown up in Ireland with the epic of the Dragonriders of Pern,® he is bursting with ideas for new stories of that world, its people, and its dragons.
www.toddmccaffrey.org
a cognizant v5 original release september 12 2010
Dragongirl is a work of fiction. Names, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
Copyright © 2010 by Todd McCaffrey and Anne McCaffrey
Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
DEL REY is a registered trademark and the Del Rey colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
McCaffrey, Todd
Dragongirl / Todd McCaffrey.
p. cm.—(Dragonriders of Pern)
eISBN: 978-0-345-52191-0
1. Dragons—Fiction. 2. Pern (Imaginary place)—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3563.A25525D68 2010
813′.54—dc22 2010014672
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