Although epic fantasy and westerns have a lot in common – tough people facing the dangers of the wilderness – I couldn’t think of many books that consciously blend the two, so I thought I’d have a go…ĭid it involve watching a lot of Clint Eastwood movies and smoking cigars?Ĭigars tend to make me a little bit sick, but Clint Eastwood movies, definitely, along with plenty of Deadwood, Cormac McCarthy, Larry McMurty, Elmore Leonard, and others.Īre there any sub-genres left that you want to tackle? I’ve been a big fan of westerns for years, from the John Wayne films I used to watch as daytime matinees as a kid, through the spaghetti westerns to revisionist things like Unforgiven and Deadwood. What prompted you to attack the western genre? But if they do like it, will they like what you’re doing now? If they don’t like it, of course it’s an outrage. And writing is a strange profession in that people are generally responding to something that you wrote at least a year or two ago. You always want to do bigger and better than you did last time. I suppose I’ve felt a fair bit of pressure with the last three or four books, though a lot of it is self-imposed. Now that you’ve gained such a big following, did you feel any additional pressure with the release of Red Country?
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