Byline: Blanche Clark

Her name may keep changing, but this bestselling fantasy author knows how to keep her fans entertained

MEGAN Lindholm, Robin Hobb or Margaret Ogden? It's hard to know how to address an author with two pen names and a different birth name.

It's even more confusing when her latest book of fantasy fiction, The Inheritance, combines short stories written under both pseudonyms. Seven stories are by Lindholm and three longer stories are by Hobb.

"With The Inheritance coming out, it will be kind of a toss-up, but I think I'll mostly respond to Robin," she says over the phone from Tacoma, Washington.

At home she's Megan, her first pen name which stems from an abbreviation of her childhood name, Margaret.

But for this interview it's Robin Hobb, the author of medieval fantasy, whose Farseer Trilogy, Liveship Trilogy and Tawny Man Trilogy have kept fantasy aficionados enthralled since being published between 1995 and 2003.

Her latest trilogy is the Rain Wild Chronicles and she's working on the final book in that series, in between flitting around the world for fantasy conventions.

Three weeks ago she was in Melbourne for the SupaNova Pop...