In a week, my new series is released in the UK with "Killer of Men" as the first book. It is my best work--not because I was lazy writing the Tyrant series, but because there is something about the events of the Persian Wars that seem to me truly epochal, and because the style of the novel allows me to say things--serious things--about the nature of war and the kind of men who choose war as a way of life.
The same weekend, I'll be running a reenactment at Fort George, Ontario--the largest I've ever run, and I've spent two years putting it together. If you are in North America, why not come and see our Fort George event. And buy a copy of Killer of Men, of course.
For more on Fort George, check out our website at Fort George 2010
Enough philosophizing about politics...
I'm a few pages from the completion of the Tyrant cycle. It felt odd, today, sitting at the Luna Cafe, at the same table where I drafted the outline for the series back in December 2005 (really? That seems like a long time ago).
A hundred pages or less from the end--well, it's the night before the Battle of Ipsus in 301BC, and everyone who's still alive is there--Leon and Theron and Coenus and Diodorus, Satyrus and Melitta, Stratokles, Crax and Andronicus... Abraham, Miriam, and even Lysimachos.
It's odd to be at the end. I comfort myself that I'll write a pre-quel about Kineas, and perhaps--just maybe--a twenty year's after.
But in the mean time--six books of Kineas and his people. It's been a great deal of fun. And I still can't decide just exactly how it ends...
But I guess I can sleep on it...
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