How did you end up doing writing the Conan books? You picked up what Robert Howard had done, right?
When Howard committed suicide he left everything to a woman who had been very good to his mother. Today there is a corporation called Conan Properties, which owns the rights to all the original Conan material, the copyrights and so forth. Now, when the first Conan movie was coming out my publisher bought the rights to do some Conan novels written by other people. At first I said no, and he asked me again and I said no because I was working on something else. Then he asked my wife to ask me.
Now, at that time she was senior vice-president and editorial director for Tor Books. And she was also my editor on everything Tor published by me. So, the upshot of that was I said I’d do one. And I had fun doing it. So I agreed to do five more, plus the novelization of the second movie. But when I had done that I said, “Well, this has been fun, but good-bye.”
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