Ask the Author: G.K. Werner
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G.K. Werner
Hi Lilyyy! Thanks for the offer. I sure could use reviews!
If I had to name only one favorite fiction genre it would be fantasy, followed very closely by historical and SF. I’ve been enjoying browsing around Faith and Fantasy. Nice group of people! Just realized I haven’t introduced myself there.
Thanks so much for your interest in my work. I’d be happy to send you free paperback copies of The Sword and the Way, Finders Keepers, Quest’s End; and my wife’s book, The Dragon Catcher. The stories take place in that order but can be read out of order. (Although Finders should be read before Quest.) The Sword and the Way’s plot builds at an easygoing pace. The others are brisker. I’ll contact your email for your address to keep that private if you like.
Thanks again for your interest and a great reading group.
GK
If I had to name only one favorite fiction genre it would be fantasy, followed very closely by historical and SF. I’ve been enjoying browsing around Faith and Fantasy. Nice group of people! Just realized I haven’t introduced myself there.
Thanks so much for your interest in my work. I’d be happy to send you free paperback copies of The Sword and the Way, Finders Keepers, Quest’s End; and my wife’s book, The Dragon Catcher. The stories take place in that order but can be read out of order. (Although Finders should be read before Quest.) The Sword and the Way’s plot builds at an easygoing pace. The others are brisker. I’ll contact your email for your address to keep that private if you like.
Thanks again for your interest and a great reading group.
GK
G.K. Werner
Thank you so much!!! I'll email you.
G.K. Werner
Thanks for asking. Robin of Locksley begins with a story of Robin at age eight and one as a teenager, but I haven't written any others about his childhood. I have a few ideas and if they become a set of stories I'd be happy to publish a book between Robert of Wakefield and Robin of Locksley. The way you phrased that makes me wonder -- raising Robin Hood? That couldn't have been easy for Megan and Robert.
G.K. Werner
Start writing and don't stop.
G.K. Werner
Tales for the next Robin and Marian book, Robin of Sherwood (three of which are finished and will soon premier in Narrow Way Storytellers; the sequel to Skipjack and the Baleful Banshee; and revising a book in Jorgan's Saga, The Sword In the Dragon.
G.K. Werner
I haven't experienced it yet. I have far more ideas for tales and scenes and characters than time to develop them. I have lots of fragments and notes in numerous envelopes. When I'm momentarily not sure where I'm going with a scene or a character, I switch to another one or further develop, tighten or revise my outline if I have one at that point. Also, I usually have more than one unfinished story going at a time, so if I'm still working something out about one of them, I'll go to another and let my subconscious deal with it for a while. Maybe that's actually the solution to writer's block. I just call it a pause for decision making, and I always have something else to go back to.
G.K. Werner
For some reason, I read Shakespeare comedies while writing Robin Hood tales, and draw (pun intended) on the original Robin Hood folk ballads as preserved in the 16th and 17th century plays and broadsides, as well as the Victorian era adventure books.
Often reprinted and still the best:
Robin Hood and the Men of the Greenwood by Henry Gilbert (1912), illus. by Frank Godwin
Robin Hood and His Merry Men by E. Charles Vivian (1906), illus. by Harry G. Theaker and Jules Gotlieb
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown in Nottinghamshire, written and illustrated by Howard Pyle (1883)
Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock (1822)
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott (1819), illus. by N. C. Wyeth
Often reprinted and still the best:
Robin Hood and the Men of the Greenwood by Henry Gilbert (1912), illus. by Frank Godwin
Robin Hood and His Merry Men by E. Charles Vivian (1906), illus. by Harry G. Theaker and Jules Gotlieb
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown in Nottinghamshire, written and illustrated by Howard Pyle (1883)
Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock (1822)
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott (1819), illus. by N. C. Wyeth
G.K. Werner
I never missed an episode of Richard Greene's Robin Hood while growing up in the fifties. Henry Gilbert's Robin Hood and the Men of the Greenwood was the first full-length chapter book I ever read. I didn't get the part of Robin in a sixth grade play, but always starred as Robin playing in the woods with friends (and kept the merry man costume my mother made for me as a bit player). My English relatives (the Pearsons and Clees) showed me Nottingham, Sherwood Forest (what's left of it) and Yorkshire (the original Robin Hood territory). I stood inside the Major Oak (probably a sapling in Robin's day) and have long steeped myself in Plantagenet England. OK, I'm a Robin Hood nut! So what do you do when your favorite show is off the air and you've outgrown your Robin Hood costume and playing in the woods with homemade bows is frowned on by adults? You write Robin Hood tales.
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Feb 04, 2022 11:31AM · flag