How did you begin to write The Receiver of Many? How did you do your research? It's amazing!

That’s a good question, and thanks!

Before Receiver of Many, I had written primarily free-to-the-public Regency and Georgian era stories on Literotica and people had asked for sequels to both. I was slogging through them and nothing sounded or felt right to me. While the stories were good by themselves, they just didn’t need sequels and anything I wrote felt forced. On top of that, my focus was diverted.

And it was because I had the beginnings of what would become Receiver of Many gnawing at the back of my mind for almost two years. It just became something I couldn’t stop or put off any longer. Every time I tried to write something else, there They would be saying ‘tell our story. Now’. I’ve never written as fervently or with as much ease as I did while writing Receiver of Many and sometimes I worry I never will again.

But it just came out. And kept going. I had the basics of the plot by the time I reached the second chapter, and after that it was just a long drive of writing, editing, writing some more, putting a concrete synopsis together so I wouldn’t loose my way, and the story ended up twice to three times as long as I’d originally intended because what is brevity.

Research started almost as soon as I finished the rough draft of the first chapter. I pulled out my copy of the Iliad and the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, I got onto Theoi.com to start connecting and intertwining other stories, I re-read a few books and read excerpts from The Narcissus and the Pomegranate by Ann Suter which convinced me to immediately buy the book. Once I did, I think I got more confident in the ideas I’d been tentatively, formatively trying to say since I’d started writing.