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Just to let everyone know that at long last my novel SHADOW OF THE LION is now on its journey into the publishing world. I'll keep you informed of its progress.

The problem with the length is mainly because I wanted to develop the characters more throroughly than Mary Renault did in her Funeral Games which, to me, came out more like a documented version of events and not the rich prose that was in Fire From Heaven. I also wanted to give the point of view of...

As you have not read the novel I have written you can't understand why it would simply not work. Others who have read it agree with me. If I was writing a life bio -- such as Mary Renault wrote 3 books regarding Alexander, Funeral Games which covers his life to 18, then Persian Boy -- the point of v...

They way I have written it and developed the characters this would not be possible. It would totally lose the tension and the point of it was to build the character of Alexander IV and show how blind ambition and greed brought down Alexander's dynasty and resulted in the deaths of so many people.

No it would not work as a triology as it covers one period of time: from Alexander's death and the birth of his legitimate heir Alexander IV(called Iskander in my novel), to the boy's murder 13 yrs later, and in between the warring Diodochi all trying to seize power for themselves. It started out to...

"Hercules" was the name of Barsine's son by Alexander (Herakles). Roxana's was referred to as Alexander IV. Aristonous was killed on orders of Kassandros as he supported the royalty and had been a friend of Alexander. I was also told by a classical scholar not to hold too firm on those dat...

As for me, I've recieved a lot of very helpful information while researching my novel on this site. So the fact that I published the update on it's progress was simply to inform those who had been helpful to me and to let them know what's happening with it. I, for one, have never considered this as ...

I was even reluctant about turning it over to a professional editor as I felt it needed to be in the hands of someone who understood the history or they'd be chopping it all to hell. Anyway, the one I've been recommended to edits for a friend of mine who also writes history (though mainly non-fictio...

I'll definitely keep you up to date here. After the professional editor has look, I'll be pitching it out into the big wide word of publishers, traditional ones first, then if that fails I'll go for a well-established self-publisher and probably in that case an e-book as well.

When I first started writing my novel "Shadow of the Lion" it was to be a juvenile historical about Alexander IV. However after a year of research and a year of writing I realized that this was too political a subject to be covered as a juvenile historical. A writer-in-residence who wrote ...

I feel the same way regarding this limited word count because most historical fiction novels of any worth are much, much longer. That word count would amout to about 300 pages. And for this particular story, it simply wouldn't work. Yes, it is terribly painful to have to cut so much and, like you, I...

It's been a few months since I've logged in here so I wanted interested folks to know the status of my novel "Shadow of the Lion". So far, it's gone through two extensive reading critiques plus edits. In October I approached a couple of agents while at the Surrey International Writer's Con...

Yes, it took me years to finish it with lots and lots of research at libraries (here and in Athens), on site and with the help of some classical scholars. At one point the Greek Tourism provided me air fare to Greece to research (thanks to the local Greek consulate). Alexander has been my passion si...

I've finished my novel, "Shadow of the Lion" which is about the fall of Alexander's dynasty. It's gone thru one final edit but still needs some more editing. I'm just heading off to Greece again (this time to visit the Mani) and will resume work to finalize it before pitching to agents/pub...

There is a small tomb near that alleged to be Philip's at the Royal Tombs, Veria. It is the tomb of the prince. I asked an achaeologist while i was visiting there doing research, if they believe it was Alexander IV's tomb, and he said yes, because it was the tomb of a royal youth who had died at the...