Hey, Michael. I was wondering about what kind of research you do before writing? There's so much detail in the series. With everything that goes on in the Riyria Revelations, you must be a fencer, thief, sailor, wizard, and chef.
I've always been a big history buff and so to me "entertainment" reading can include things like Societies of the Bronze Age. A lot of my knowledge has come from just this type of pleasure reading.
For some things, in particular The Emerald Storm. It's a mixture of thingn. For instance, I've always been a fan of C.S.Forrester's Horatio Hornblower books. As well as Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana. But most of my research, like what type of food is served shipboard came from a great reference book, which unfortunately I lent to my daughter and forgot it's name. When she gets home from work tonight I'll try to find it out and post.
I know nothing about swordsplay, though I must be getting something right because a lot of people write me who are fencers and they think that I'm one as well. I think writing "fighting" scenes can be boring if you just give blow-by-blow accounts, so I try to structure them as little "mini-stories" with their own climax.
I've always been a big history buff and so to me "entertainment" reading can include things like Societies of the Bronze Age. A lot of my knowledge has come from just this type of pleasure reading.
For some things, in particular The Emerald Storm. It's a mixture of thingn. For instance, I've always been a fan of C.S.Forrester's Horatio Hornblower books. As well as Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana. But most of my research, like what type of food is served shipboard came from a great reference book, which unfortunately I lent to my daughter and forgot it's name. When she gets home from work tonight I'll try to find it out and post.
I know nothing about swordsplay, though I must be getting something right because a lot of people write me who are fencers and they think that I'm one as well. I think writing "fighting" scenes can be boring if you just give blow-by-blow accounts, so I try to structure them as little "mini-stories" with their own climax.