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"I started writing straight historical fiction in the beginning. That's, that's what it began as," he says. "It was gorgeous taxidermy, right? It was totally accurate. It was beautiful, but it was dead." He wanted to write a story along the lines of epic fantasy books like Lord of the Rings. 'If I could fuse that with my era of historic love, that would be a book that I had never seen before'