![]() ![]() ![]() Sometimes stuff just “comes to you.” This was one of those times. “The book is done, it’s fine the way it is, it’s too much work to come up with something new, I don’t wanna do it.”īut about a week later I had an idea for a scene. Please write one more scene that’s just about the women.” They called me into their office and begged me to give them one more scene. But I had two female editors, Kate Miciak and Nita Taublib. And I had no idea that it would evoke that response. ![]() Clearly it’s the single scene in the book that touches readers most. I’ve gotten more letters and e-mails about this scene than any other. There’s a scene in the book, a fictional scene, that involves the women of Sparta. Let me tell you a writer’s story, about my own experience writing Gates of Fire, about the 300 Spartans at the battle of Thermopylae. Paraleia, a Spartan woman, in Gates of Fire “These are the last tears of mine, my lord, that the sun will ever see.” ![]()
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