Ask the Author: Alexander Geiger
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Alexander Geiger
Book 5 of The Ptolemaios Saga: Funeral Games, will be published in the first half of 2024.
Alexander Geiger
I stop writing for a while. It’s like eating or sex. Pretty soon, not even a team of horses could keep me away.
Alexander Geiger
You get to be your own boss. Of course, that also means that you’re totally responsible for your end product. But that’s a good thing, right?
Alexander Geiger
Just write. As with most things in life, practice makes perfect.
Alexander Geiger
I’m putting the finishing touches on Book Four of the Ptolemaios Saga. I’m working under a tight deadline because, after I finish the manuscript, it has to go through a grueling editing process. Then come the comments, criticisms, and suggestions of my beta readers, all of which must be considered and reflected in the revised, and hopefully final, version of the book. And then my wife has to read it one more time and tell me that it’s ready to go.
Volume 4 is supposed to get published next year, so I hope you’ll understand why I have to keep this answer short.
Volume 4 is supposed to get published next year, so I hope you’ll understand why I have to keep this answer short.
Alexander Geiger
Mostly, I love to talk. Unfortunately, even though I’m blessed with a wonderful family, many friends, and lots of colleagues, I often find myself running out of people willing to listen to my blather. Yes, I know, it’s hard to believe. Anyway, when that happens, what else can I do but write it all down, in the hope that there are at least some people out there who haven’t heard me tell these great stories before.
Alexander Geiger
My college roommate and I recently got together for a mini-reunion and as usual promptly fell into an argument. He claimed that all the great stories were already written by the ancient Greeks 2,500 years ago and we are simply retelling, embellishing, and messing up their wonderful tales. Immediately and instinctively, I took the opposing point of view. But the more we argued, the weaker my position became. By the end of the evening, he convinced me of at least two things: (1) All stories, in the final analysis, are about human beings (even stories starring gods); and (2) Human beings are the same today as they were two millennia ago, even though we live in very different worlds.
They ancients had the same desires, fears, hopes, ambitions, uncertainties, and shortcomings as we do today. Wouldn’t it be terrific, I asked myself, if I could somehow find a narrator able to recount these exciting, rollicking tales of derring-do, of loves won and lost, of good triumphing over evil (and vice versa), but do it from a modern perspective? I was ready to write my next book. All I had to do is find a narrator who was there, in the middle of the action, but able to observe the ancient world through modern eyes.
They ancients had the same desires, fears, hopes, ambitions, uncertainties, and shortcomings as we do today. Wouldn’t it be terrific, I asked myself, if I could somehow find a narrator able to recount these exciting, rollicking tales of derring-do, of loves won and lost, of good triumphing over evil (and vice versa), but do it from a modern perspective? I was ready to write my next book. All I had to do is find a narrator who was there, in the middle of the action, but able to observe the ancient world through modern eyes.
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