Someone asked me how long it took to write Future King and I had to stop and think. The answer had me a bit shocked. I came up with the idea in 1996 after re-reading one of my favorites; that classic by T.H. White, The Once and Future King. It took me a couple of months to outline the story in my mind (I never do it formally on paper) and write a first chapter.
Back in those days, my wife and I owned an advertising agency. Our landlord was a man named Marty Cummins and we had grown to be friends. One morning I met Marty going into our building. We stopped and chatted a while about nothing much and I decided to ask him what he thought about the idea. About bringing King Arthur back from Avalon in today's world.
He liked it. But then he got a funny look on his face. Marty knew that my wife and I had both worked for the Disney Company for a number of years and he was an avid Disney fan. He looked off into the distance for moment, then smiled. The six words he said changed everything: Why don't you bring Walt back?
Six years later WakingWalt was published. It's still available on Amazon as the original hard bound or paperback and recently became available as a Kindle.
What got in the way of Future King those other nine years will have to wait for another post.
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