crystalleaf opened this issue on May 24, 2002 ยท 13 posts
melanie posted Fri, 24 May 2002 at 9:55 AM
Hmm, it's been years since I read those books, but if memory serves me correctly, the dragon in the screen shot you referenced above doesn't really look like the ones from the books. I met Anne McCaffrey once at a book signing. I remember one of her characters was named something like Melora or something (as I said, it's been a long time since I read them), and when she asked me my name, she did a double take at me. I had no idea she was so finickity about her things. Maybe she thought I was ripping off her name or something. LOL She must have never read Gone With the Wind. That disappoints me that she has such a nasty disposition. You'd think she would be flattered that anyone would like her stuff enough to want to do artwork after it. I remember seeing a book that someone published (obviously with her permission) that had illustrations of all the characters from the Pern novels and they were definite rip-offs of other things. One character was very distinctly Scott Bakula. Another was a copy of the American Gothic image with the man and woman with the pitchfork, only without the pitchfork. I wonder how they got away with that. Melanie