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I dont read fan fiction, for just that reason.
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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?
10) How do you relate the gaps in your timeline to fans that say that they should be filled in ie the war of the twins or how bane came back to lead the Rigante against Stone? or do you feel that the gaps add a greater dimension to the reality of the worlds?
It just comes down to what interests me. For example the Crimean War, Charge of the Light Brigade et al, is fascinating. The Second World War is also right up there for excitement, derring do, and charismatic generals like Patton, Montgomery, Alexander and Rommel. The First Wolrd War is mind numbingly vile from start to finish. Stupid generals, ludicrous tactics, and colossal waste of human life. Now, if these were part of the Gemmell universe I would write about the Light Brigade, and about Patton and Rommel, but only allude to the First World War. In short I'd skip a generation.
11) Fan fiction can be a writers bane especially in a law court, have you ever come across any that you thought has been half decent and was a great idea that you couldn't tackle due to the legal implications?
I dont read fan fiction, for just that reason.
12) With so many people enjoying your work, has this put a block around your neck to deliver something that you think that they want or do you just write what you want and hope that its received with the same success as your other work. How has this effected you as an author and how do you pick yourself up when one novel or two doesn't get the same acclaim as the rest that you lovingly slaved over?
No, there's no block. I write what I want, but I also consider what my readers will want. As to criticism... hey, no-one has ever written a book that got universal acclaim. Frederick Forsyth's Day of the Jackal was rejected by one publisher as having no originality of plot and no chance of success. Wuthering Heights was reviewed as an appalling novel, which few people would read and would be forgotten about in months. Most of the best selling first novels you - or I - could mention were rejected by publishers. Stephen Donaldson's ground breaking Thomas Covenant series in the Eighties was rejected by 40 publishers. Its the same with fans. Occasionally I glance at Amazon for reviews of my work. You'll find someone giving a novel one star and saying its crap, or that I've lost my way, and the next reviewer saying its a five star book and one of the best they've ever read. So, I dont need to pick myself up. Water off a duck's wossname.
13) Actors are always being suggested to play certain characters from your novels, have you ever written a novel and envisaged a certain actor/actress playing a part, if so, who, what book/role and when?
Legend, where I always pictured Brian Blessed as Druss. Jon Shannow was Clint Eastwood from Pale Rider. Sigourney Weaver as a blond Sigarni in Ironhands Daughter. Mel Gibson was the rat who ate through the roof in White Wolf. [Okay, the last one isnt true, but then I loathe the little git]
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