His sales and income soared, and he became one of the most successful writers of the genre, with twenty-one New York Times paperback bestsellers in the space of a decade. In one year alone three of his novels placed on The New York Times bestseller list. The Spokane Public Library gave him the Golden Pen Award for being their favorite fantasy author in 1982. Because little girls like animals, and Penny and Cheryl were no different, in 1978 they bought nice horses, and that experience, coupled with knee injuries in judo class, became the inspiration for Split Infinity . The girls are grown and gone and Piers and Cam now live on their tree farm, and would love to have a wolf by their door, but do have deer and wild cat and other wildlife.
Piers is an avid environmentalist.
His autobiography to age 50, Bio of An Ogre , is now out of print. While , and he is looking for a publisher at the moment. At that time he had had 50 books published, now it is well over 100. But a writer does not live by frivolous fantasy alone. Today Piers is turning back to serious writing with direct comment on sexual abuse in Firefly , and on history in novels like Tatham Mound , which relates to the fate of American Indians, and the Geodyssey series, covering man's past three and a half million years to the present, and Volk , which shows love and death in Civil War Spain and World War II Germany.