![]() ![]() ![]() Men of Bronze, Memnon, The Lion of Cairo. ![]() you, the writer, need merely pick and choose what you’d like to include. In historical fiction, I thought, the heavy lifting of world-building is done for you. World-building was my Achilles’ heel, and that’s what spurred me to shift from fantasy to historical. I’d had a couple of short stories published by a local fanzine, but nothing longer than six or eight thousand words I’d tinkered with writing a cyberpunk novel while going through the Writer’s Digest Novel Writing Course (circa 1989), but that never got beyond the planning part of the course. ![]() Back then, I had no idea what I was doing. The strange thing about Men of Bronze, though, was despite its origins as straight-up iconic Sword & Sorcery, between 20 it turned into straight-up historical fiction. I secured an agent in 2003, and we’d sold it to a new small publishing house, Medallion Press, in 2004. It went through a few iterations, but by 2002 I had the manuscript for Men of Bronze in my hot little hands. Most of you probably already know this story: back in the year 2000 AD, I sat down with the bones of a Conan novel I’d been working on since the mid-1990s - meant as an addition to the Tor Books Conan line - and, on the advice of a friend who was a multi-published author and journalist, turned it into something uniquely my own. ![]()
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