My editor asks if you could repost your review on the Amazon page listing the book. You might need to excise your comments about Lisette - or offer a very comprehensive footnote.




Given that I've never had a particular ambition to write a Robin Hood story - this was more by way of a commission - I found msyelf warming to the characters as I went. This is also more polished than my usual PV work, since people were paying for it.




I was trying hard to blend the styles to include that pulp action feel. It wasn't actualy that difficult. Somewhere in the deep literary roots of pulp fiction are the medieval Robin Hood 'gestes'.




This might sound familiar. I started out to write one book but as it went on it became apparent that it would require three volumes to do the story justice. The second one is written and is due with the publisher in June, which might put publication date as early next year.




That would be most welcome. I'm not as experienced at writing novel-length stories as I am at shorter things and I'm still on a learning curve. I have five or six novels sitting on my hard drive but bringing them to a "ready to print" level of finish is still challenging to me.




We return to Ros in book two. I wouldn't just leave her like that.




Another thing that often happens in Robin Hood stories is that pretty much all of Robin's band are together already, or else all join in one event. That can make them pretty generic. I wanted to offer each one of the traditional cast their own intro and little story arc. The only major character missing is the minstrel Alan a Dale, and he's in book two.




I can write them faster than the publishers can publish them.