Excitement and Anticipation
Posted on : 21-12-2009 | By : Mark Robson
In : General, Publishing!
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When I first started out as an author, I made the decision to self publish my first book. I did so before really exploring the traditional publishing route properly. If I had persevered, my first series might have eventually been published by a major publisher … but I doubt it. The story in The Forging of the Sword was too similar to other stories by better authors, and was riddled with cliches. That said, it was the best story I could write at the time and I’m still very proud of it. Especially as it has gone on to sell tens of thousands of copies in the UK … and to attract the interest of the German arm of the publishing giant, Random House Books.
Next year (almost 10 years exactly since I took delivery of the first print run of The Forging of the Sword) all four of my ‘Darkweaver Legacy’ books will launch in Germany, published for the first time by a traditional publishing house. This sort of feels like vindication of my belief in that first set of novels. I’m hoping that they gave the books a good edit while they were translating, as the books were rather over-written – I guess I’ll never know, as my German isn’t good enough for me to be able to read them in that language! I absolutely love the covers they have given the books. They are very reminiscent of the original artwork on the covers of The Belgariad by David Eddings, which were my favourite fantasy series as a teenager.
Here is the German cover for The Forging of the Sword. If you want to see all four covers, you can see them on the news page of my website, or on my blog.



