Geek Syndicate
INTERVIEW - Giles Kristian, Author of The Bleeding Land
bly ended with a great melee of flashing foils in which you would sometimes be fencing against two or three opponents. For me there was nothing better. GS: How did you manage to convey the war scenes in such amazing detail? There were times when you could hear and smell and taste the war, it felt like someone who had experienced it first hand had written them. GK: I have always been intrigued by conflict and in some ways been drawn to it. they’re Vikings! It’s part of the job description. But with the Rivers family and the other characters in The Bleeding Land it’s different. We think of the seventeenth century as a more civilized time than the Viking Age, so that when the violence does come it is much more shocking. Tom and Mun, Sir Francis and Lady Mary, are a family suddenly thrust into the horrors of war and each of them must commit terrible violence simply to stay alive. The fact that the family splits and they end up fighting on opposite sides just adds to the horror. So in a way the characters in my last novels gloried in violence where as in The Bleeding Land they are utterly appalled by it. GS: I was left at the end of the book with unanswered questions. Will your next book take us back to the Rivers family? GK: Yes the next tale continues directly from where we left off. It is 1643 and I am currently writing a terrifying underground scene during the siege of Lichfield where, for the first time an explosive mine was detonated in an English siege to open a massive breach in the defences. GS: Would you like to see your books on the screen? If so in the form of a tv drama or a film? GK: I think the Raven trilogy would make a brilliant movie and that The Bleeding Land would work wonderfully as a mini series. But what
Giles Kristian is the successful author of the Viking saga Raven. For his next book’s setting, Kristian has chosen the English Civil War, which has not had that many great books written about it. Geek Syndicate recently caught up with Giles to talk about his latest book The Bleeding Land which we reviewed recently on our web site. GS: What inspired yo ?????????????????????
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