Veronica asked Cindy Dees:

I just finished "The Sleeping King" and enjoyed it very much. It is so involved and detailed that I kept wondering how long it took to write it?

Cindy Dees Great question Veronica! It actually took us four years to write THE SLEEPING KING. I wrote the first draft in secret, without telling Bill about it. I had been convinced for years that a book could be written about the live-action game he ran, but Bill wasn't interested in doing it. I showed him the draft, and he allowed that it didn't make a half-bad book but that it wouldn't sell, since no new epic fantasy series had sold to a major publisher in years. I submitted the book to Tor and was STUNNED when they not only bought the book but asked for several books. We then went to work revising THE SLEEPING KING and bringing it down in size.
The next obvious question is how long did it take to write the second book? THE DREAMING HUNT took us about 18 months to write. Bill and I have greatly refined the process of how we work together and now write fairly smoothly as a team. I'm expecting that the third book will only take us six to eight months to finish. I'll let you know how that goes!

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