![]() The initial novel came from two lines, each in a different notebook. But my bargain with myself stood: if Sandman Slim didn’t get a good response, I was out of the book game. ![]() ![]() I promised myself that if Sandman Slim didn’t sell, I was going to give up on books and just write the occasional short story.ĭuring this period, I went into therapy and finally got on the right meds for my depression, which made writing much easier. I was also going through a prolonged depression. All of my published books had received generally good reviews, but sold poorly. I’d published three novels and started and abandoned several more. Here’s where I was when I started writing book one: ![]() Or, more realistically, Sandman Slim would never have existed at all. ![]() If things had gone a little differently, Sandman Slim would have been a one-off and not a twelve-book series. In today’s Big Idea, Kadrey tells us how it all came to this, and how one faces the end of a thing both the author and readers have invested so much time and love in. It’s the end of an era: with King Bullet, New York Times Bestselling Author Richard Kadrey puts a capper on the long-running and fabulous Sandman Slim series of fantasy novels. ![]()
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