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What hints would you like to drop about what we can expect from the project?
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- During your career you have seen many diverse changes such as labouring, door management and journalism. How does it feel to be on the receiving end of an interview?
- With each novel having different artwork, what options do you get with the selection of the pieces and does the company present you with a number to choose from?
- Recently you had a quote appear on the debut novel of Ian Graham (Monument) How were you persuaded to review Ian's work and why did you give this quote?
- I write. I play computer games. I watch movies.
- I made it up as I went along. And yes, the map we are using for White Wolf was created by Dale Rippke, an American reader.
- What advice would you give to debut novelists to encourage them?
- With the successful completion of White Wolf whats the next project that your working on?
- Pagan/Kataskicana is a memerable character, have you ever thought about writing a novel based around Pagan or even just around the Opal Coast?
- Maybe. I have a soft spot for Bane and it might be that in some future time I will get an idea for a story.
- What hints would you like to drop about what we can expect from the project?
- I would only go for a another graphic novel if John Bolton was the artist. He does my UK covers and I think he's just about the best in the business. Which one? Waylander.
- I'll take a rain check on that one.
- When can we expect the follow up to Quest for lost heroes and what cataclysmic events the twins caused?
- Legend is often sited, by many fans, as thier favourite Gemmell novel, why do you think that this is?
- What attracted you to the story of Troy seeing as its been recreated so many times in so many different formats?
- Why write a trilogy around Troy and what are you doing to prevent a rework of a tale that already exists?
- With so many covers for Legend over the years, do you have a favourite and why is it?
- What novel or timeline (from your novels) would you most like to live in and why?
- Why retell the tale of Troy when so many have tackled it before?
- Yep, Druss is descended from Oshikai and Angel.
- I dont read fan fiction, for just that reason.
- My only goal right now IS to hit sixty. Almost all my dreams have already been achieved. All that can happen now is to get more of what I already have - or perhaps less.
- I have a signed copy of Stephen Pressfield's Gates of Fire, and 120 old Louis Lamour westerns, which I have been avidly re-reading these last few weeks.
- A great many of your novels have hidden stories behind them when they were being created, what is, if any the tale relating to "Knights of dark renown"?
- How would you say that your mood reflects in your writing, for example the first shannow novel was written at a personally hard time in your life?
- How on earth do you manage to create these worlds with all their history?
- What do you think of the two current literary phenomenons that are Harry Potter and the Da Vinci Code, and why do you think they are so popular?
- That question needs to be directed at someone independent who has read both works.
- Publishers send me manuscripts by new writers and ask whether I'd read them. Occasionally one will grab me. Deborah Miller's was one like that. Hence the cover quote.
- What would you recommend to anybody who wants to write fantasy, specially people who read your work and are inspired by it?
- With over thirty novels to your name how do you keep your characters so fresh and interesting?
- Schools are now being forced to cancel adventure holidays, because youngsters might get hurt rock climbing, or mountain walking, or kayaking.
- We need to rediscover the virtues of individual heroism.
- Which is what I said to the guy who suggested it.
- During the writing of "Fall of Kings" which, if any scenes, have been particularly difficult to write?
- How do you feel the completed book will be received and how do you think you will feel upon completion of the novel?
- Which of David's books is your own personal favourite?
- David never made it a secret how much he hated conducting research. How easy was it for you to immerse yourself into the ancient world?
- What do you think about DavidтАЩs fans reaction to his passing?
1) After the completion of The Swords of Night and Day you mentioned in a previous interview that your next project was to be to "write a big story loosely based on the Siege of Troy." How is this progressing and is it going to be something similar to the Lion of Macedon and Dark Prince?
No, this is a straight historical looking at the kind of events that might have led to a major war in the Myceanean period. I'm having a lot of fun with it, though the research does slow down the writing speed. In a fantasy, if you want, say, a storm at sea and a ship riding it, you just invent it as you go along. In the first major action scene for the new Troy book I wanted a storm at sea, during a journey from Cyprus to the coast of Lycia. I needed to know the prevailing winds in the area, the approximate journey times and the reason any ship would be sailing those waters in those times, ie what kind of trade goods did they carry? Its hard work, but, as I said earlier, a lot of fun.
2) What hints would you like to drop about what we can expect from the project?
I'm only 20,000 words into the first book, and working on a second draft following reports from test readers. Too early to give hints - except perhaps to say that I'm looking to tie in some famous 'historical' characters into the story.
3) How important would you say fan feed back it to you as an author?
It depends. Its always nice if someone tells you they enjoy your work. Its also good sometimes when people tell you they dont, and then supply a reason. Not enough atmosphere, for example, or too much violence and not enough detail about everyday lives. At other times it can be mildly dispiriting. 'Dont like your work. Read half a chapter of one of your books and it was crap.' The British, particularly, have made knocking fame a kind of art form. The more succesful you are commercially the more sniping and back biting you receive. Then there are the well meaning fans whose comments can cause a sinking of the spirits. Most authors pour blood into their work, struggling constantly to find a story that will engage, inspire, uplift and entertain. For a year or more they will sit in bleak offices staring at computer screens honing sentences, cutting, expanding, re-working, editing, until, emotionally exhausted, they finally finish the work. Then someone will say brightly: 'So, how long does it take you to knock out a book then?' Or...'Loved the latest, David. Read it in an afternoon. When's the next one due.' Mostly I enjoy fan feedback. I used to be able to respond to all the letters I received. Now there are too many. But I do read them all.
4) What is your view is on fan fiction? Is it something that you rather people didnt do or is it more a case of theyre welcome to it as long as you dont see it?
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