About the Author

Linda A. Malcor

(Revised 12/19/23)

Dr. Malcor

Linda A. Malcor has a Ph.D. in Folklore and Mythology from UCLA. Her specialties include Narrative, Celtic Studies, Medieval Studies, and Indo-European Comparative Mythology. She teaches and lectures in all these fields in addition to teaching English as a Foreign Language. Her nonfiction currently focuses on the late second-century Roman Empire.

Dr. Malcor's novels and short stories use fantasy to discuss issues in the modern world. Her Dragonlords of Dumnonia series tells of endless war in a desert, clashes of cultures and languages, LGBTQ issues, allies with different worldviews trying to join forces against a common threat, attempts to blend different economies, and various ways each culture treats beings who are different from themselves.

In her copious free time, Dr. Malcor loves to engage in sci-fi/fantasy fandom, and she is the co-President of the Mercedes Lackey fanclub, Queen's Own.

She has several Facebook pages under her name, From Scythia to Camelot, and Dragonlords of Dumnonia.

Meet the Author!

Appearances:

Lucius Artorius Castus Conference, Croatia, 2012

Lucius Artorius Castus Conference, Croatia, 2019

Dr. Malcor

Her email is shashtah@gmail.com.

Click on this link for her Curriculum Vita.

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The Dragonlords of Dumnonia Series

The current works available about the Dragonlords are:

  1. The first of the Dragonlords of Dumnonia novels, Dragon Heart details Shashtah's struggles to Bond with a Dragon and the birth of his friendship with Dragonrider Kashon. The story carries you all over Centuria: the Great Woods, Tor, Rashtar, the Northern Wastes, and Cinnamar.

  2. Shashtah's adventures continue. In this novel, he goes through the Training with his beloved Tphah--under Dragonlord Kashon's watchful eye. Travel with Shashtah and his family to Mount Paradin, the Elven Kingdom, Tor, and Krillion. Struggle with him against the injustices he finds in the world as he tries to raise a family of fosterlings in the middle of a war.

  3. Shashtah, now a Dragonlord, joins with Kashon in a desperate attempt to save the Dumnonian race from extinction. With the help of their powerful ally, the White Wolf, the Dragonlords disappear into a Magic Room, where time goes faster than it should, to raise an entire generation of Dragons and Warriors. Then comes the real challenge: Introducing the youngsters into a culture and a world that they have never known.

  4. Shashtah, now a full-blown Prophet and the Dragonking, collides head-on with his own Council of Ancients when Dumnonian laws would force the Dragonheart to sentence Lord Kashon and Honored Ancient Katrell to death. Shashtah has the kingship ripped from him and his Bond with Tphah broken. Together with Kashon and Katrell, the former king flees into the desert--where he confronts some hard facts about why some of the laws he's tried to change are the way they are and what it means to ask people--and Dragons--to change traditions that have been with them for over two thousand years.

  5. "Dragonlover" (©1995 L.A. Malcor)

    A short story, detailing an encounter with Katrell from the point of view of the Prophet's former Rider, Dragonlord Bahakesh.

  6. "Dragonprophet" (©1995, 1998 L.A. Malcor)

    In this short story Katrell tells how he and Kashon became Tphah's Trainers and why they decided to endure Dameth's abuse and remain under his command. The tale appeared in Eternity Magazine, Issue 16, and was a nominee for Story of the Year. "Dragonprophet" will be appearing in the trade paperback anthology The Best of Eternity, Fall/Winter 1999.

  7. "Dragontale" (©1995 L.A. Malcor)

    A short story, detailing Kashon's attempts to Bond with a Dragon and his first meeting with the love of his life, Katrell.

  8. "Heart to Heart" (©1995 L.A. Malcor)

    An early draft from Dragon Visions in which Kashon and Shashtah explore an unexpected aspect of their friendship.

  9. "Unfair Trade" (©1998 L.A. Malcor)

    A short story, detailing Eschlend's attack on Councilor Garesh's caravan. Fifth Place winner in the Pulp Eternity Dragon Fiction Contest.

Dr. Malcor and Dragonlords BOD Member, Kendra Hosseini
Dr. Malcor with her co-President of Queen's Own.

If you would like to contact Dr. Malcor about conventions, speaking engagements and teaching opportunities, message her at Shashtah@gmail.com.

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