It’s Appreciate a Dragon Day!

[swan_tower]

The internet tells me that today is Appreciate a Dragon Day. I can think of no finer way to celebrate this than to give away an advance copy of Within the Sanctuary of Wings. To enter into the contest, all you need to do is post a comment or email me describing the type of dragon you would most want to have. Is your dream dragon big enough to ride on, or small enough to keep in the house as a pet? European-style or Asian-style (or some other style)? Scaly or leathery? A fire-breather or otherwise? Do you want a teleporting Pern dragon, a magical D&D dragon, a feral beast of a dragon, Puff the Magic Dragon? Share your dragon dreams for a chance to win the book!

Originally published at Swan Tower. You can comment here or there.

Comments

[via_ostiense]

A tiny, teleporting dragon that could sleep in bed with me but also transport me to faraway destinations for vacation. This dragon would make the ideal spy pet: small enough to be dismissed by the unobservant, but excellent at bamfing in and out of offices and locked rooms.

Fire-breathing would be fun, but my experience training a dog has made me wary of how hard it would be to train a dragon to breathe fire only when appropriate.

[bookblather]

I want an Asian-style dragon to hang out with and read stories with. I can polish its scales and tell it it's lovely, and pet its tendrils, and give it anything it wants. I don't want it to be a pet, though, I want it to be a friend, you know? Friendly dragon who can debate books with me.

[alessandriana.livejournal.com]

One of the fire lizards from Pern. Small enough to keep in the house, and it teleports. :)

[xahra99.livejournal.com]

I'd like a lammergeier sort of dragon please: one big enough to ride; white with a black-striped head and a habit of colouring its scales by rubbing itself in mud or metal ores, one that lives in mountains, takes off by jumping from the peaks and cracks bones by dropping them from great heights.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

I want a Pern teleporting dragon that I can ride on and that will love me forever... and has the power to shrink to fire lizard size so it can live in my apartment.

Sorry not sorry. ;)

[sovay]

Share your dragon dreams for a chance to win the book!

For years I wanted a sentient, riding-size dragon (though without some of the sociological bindings that McCaffrey envisioned), but I would be perfectly happy with a fire lizard assuming it could get along with my cats.

[landofnowhere]

Bird-sized iridescent blue-green dragon with butterfly wings.

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

There's a line in the Jane Yolen dragon books, Dragon's Blood et seq, about there being pet dragons bred for looks rather than fighting. If I couldn't have one of my imaginary dragons-- smaller than fairy tales, sleek, winged but aquatic/amphibious, also brilliantly colored and intelligent and maybe telepathic-- I'd want one of those.

[sheff-dogs.livejournal.com]

I'd like to have as a friend a dragon like Patricia Wrede's Kazul, one obviously wouldn't own such a being!

[shanaqui]

Late to the party -- but a Welsh dragon, of course. ♥ They always seem very solemn and intelligent on the flag.