![]() ![]() ![]() Why don’t you write a novel?” And so I did and the novel that I wrote that summer-or the part of the novel I wrote that summer-was the beginning of Children of Amarid, which became my first published novel. Since the day I’ve met you, you’ve been talking about writing a novel. And even when I was a graduate student, any chance I got to do some reading, I’d read in genre.Īnd when I was done with my dissertation but had not yet landed an academic job, my wife says to me “You’ve got the summer. ![]() ![]() How did a doctor of US History find himself reading and writing fantasy?ĭB Jackson: I fell in love with fantasy… Actually, I was a camper at a sleep-away camp when I was 11 years old, and the theatre counselor was doing a production-an abridged production-of The Hobbit and I got cast as Bilbo Baggins and fell in love with the story and got home from that and started reading The Hobbit, and then I moved a short while later to Lord of the Rings and from there it was onto all sorts of stuff and I just fell in love with fantasy literature. With me today is award-winning author, DB Jackson, who is also David B Coe. ![]()
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