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Glen shrook arcadiaindiana6/13/2023 ![]() the first six books were written by hand and using a typewriter and the last four were written mostly on computer. “ She Is the Darkness” comes from a song called Rhiannon by Fleetwood Mac. “ Water Sleeps” comes from a Turkish proverb and “ Soldiers Live” comes from a poem written by a Vietnam veteran soldier about feeling guilty about how he survived but his friends didn’t. A Pitiless Rain will follow on after Soldiers Live. That last, however, had a litter: Bleak Seasons, She Is The Darkness, Water Sleeps, and Soldiers Live. By then Dreams Of Steel was obvious and Glittering Stone had to be done. That underwent mitosis and became Shadow Games and Silver Spike. By the time I completed White Rose I knew Shadow Games. She insisted I do a trilogy in which the men of the Company would eventually show us that they were not irredeemably wicked. The editor who bought it was troubled by Black Company because she saw it as so different from all the Tolkien clones going around in those days. It was an evolutionary process beginning with the editing process for the first book. ![]() I wanted to write about guys that I knew and what I thought they'd be like under those kinda situations. One-Eye and Goblin if I'm completely honest about it, are slightly derivative of characters named Monk and Ham from the Doc Savage pulp novels of the 1930s, who are constantly squabbling and whatnot. I'll say that almost all the members of the Company that you see on stage during the first book are people I knew when I was in the service. Wolfe and Jonathan Strahan Friday Jan 15, 2016)
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