Third book in the Thief to King Trilogy..
No, I'm not the theologian nor the British actor who was married to Judi Dench--both impressive guys, but not me. I'm also not another Michael Williams who wrote several science fiction novels back in the 60s and 70s, I believe, and is about 15 years older than I am. I'm the one who started by working with Margaret Weis's and Tracy Hickman's famous DRAGONLANCE project, with poetry and short stories back in the mid-1980s. I owe them a lot, though the work I'm doing now is quite different than what I was doing then.
To make a long story short (which I'm not great at doing, so I became a novelist rather than doing the shorter pieces I started out doing)...
When you've written poetry and short fiction, and an editor asks you if you'd "like to try doing a novel," what can you say but "yes", even if you're young and have no idea what you're doing? That's how I began my first novel, WEASEL'S LUCK, way back in the late '80s, and I dove in with the confidence that, unlike a fighter pilot or a neurosurgeon, a novelist can learn by on-the-job training.
WEASEL'S LUCK turned out well, after all. It's sold over 700,000 copies world-wide, in a number of languages, and more people like it that hate it, and very few people are indifferent to it, so I think that adds up to a successful first novel. I followed it with several books in the DRAGONLANCE line, with two critically acclaimed novels, ARCADY and ALLAMANDA, and most recently, a big, sprawling magical realist novel called TRAJAN'S ARCH.
It's an exciting time now, as TRAJAN'S ARCH is hitting the shelves all over the place, and is available here on Amazon. I hope you'll pick up a copy, and I hope you'll enjoy it. After twenty years of doing this, I think I'm catching on, and I hope my books catch on with you.
