The Magic Touch

by Jody Lynn Nye

“Thanks,” he said.

  “No,” she said, with a smile. “Thank you. See you at the next meeting.”

  “Yeah,” he said, settling into his seat. He felt like bursting into the union song. Instead, he just hummed a few happy notes, and swung off the bus at the next stop.

  Author Biography

  Jody Lynn Nye writes fantasy and science fiction books and short stories. Since 1987 she has published over 45 books and more than 120 short stories, including epic fantasies, contemporary humorous fantasy, humorous military science fiction, and edited three anthologies. She collaborated with Anne McCaffrey on a number of books, including the New York Times bestseller, Crisis on Doona. She also wrote eight books with Robert Asprin, and continues both of Asprin’s Myth-Adventures series and Dragons series. Her newest humorous military SF series is the Lord Thomas Kinago adventures, the most recent of which is Fortunes of the Imperium (Baen Books).

  The Magic Touch is a part of the same world of Jody’s other well-known contemporary humorous fantasy series, Mythology, recently republished by WorldFire Press. A new novel about the Fairy Godmothers’ Union will shortly be published in Wishing On a Star (Arc Manor Press), as part of the Stellar Guild series, accompanied by a novella by newcomer Angelina Adams.

  Jody’s other recent books are Myth-Quoted (Ace Books); an e-collection of cat stories, Cats Triumphant! (Event Horizon); Dragons Run (fourth in the Dragons series) and Launch Pad, an anthology of science fiction stories co-edited with Mike Brotherton (WordFire). Jody runs the two-day intensive writers’ workshop at DragonCon, and she and her husband, Bill Fawcett are the book reviewers for Galaxy’s Edge Magazine.