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I have bought my plane tickets for Christmas. This is all very adult, both because I bought them in advance and because I’m actually going to fly this time, despite the little pile of neurosis I become around plane travel. (Before the advent of modern chemistry, I left little fingernail divots in the armrests each time we hit turbulence.) Like many people, I’m going home to see my family, to stay in the house where I spent much of my childhood, and to practice the traditions that have been a part of my life for a long time. The Highland Dragon’s Lady isn’t actually a holiday story, but it too is about going home and encountering the past; it’s about reunions, and how they both defy and highlight transformation. We leave the place where we came from, most of us. We go away, we change—and sometimes we don’t even know how deep or wide those changes are until we come back. The things and people we leave behind change too, of course, even if we don’t expect that change, or wan...

Please welcome Isabel Cooper, whose brand new Sourcebooks Casablanca paranormal romance series starts this month with LEGEND OF THE HIGHLAND DRAGON! In today’s post, she shares with us what has inspired her the most in her writing… I started playing Dungeons and Dragons when I was eleven. I’d already been kind of a geek before that: read the Lord of the Rings series a bunch of times, played a whole lot of video games,   and had a taste for the weird and supernatural in my fiction. (Also horse books. So many horse books, until I learned to ride and realized that actual horses were not your friends, tried to step on your toes pretty constantly, and had the same, er, biological output as any other animal.) But my geekdom didn’t really crystalize until I hit eleven. Then, facing my fifth strabismus surgery and inspired by the example of the boy down the road, who got a Sega Genesis when he had to have an operation on his back, I demanded a bribe in order to go qui...