![]() One individual wrote somewhere complaining there were no color pictures (I suggested a box of crayons). Of course, it garnered the usual brick-bats from those who complained that the encyclopedia should have covered topics they were interested in. The book sold well, and received much praise. It took six years of writing- including revisions, additions, and the editing of page proofs- before it all went to press, becoming The Encyclopedia of the Sword (Greenwood Press, 1995), in the process. ![]() I mentioned to my editor that if we could sell my book by the pound, we'd make a fortune. The completed manuscript was over two thousand pages long, not including pictures, and weighted a solid thirty-five pounds. ![]() From what I could tell, there had never been a single volume that embraced so many possibilities so, in 1989, I began cranking out my initial draft on a standard Smith-Corona typewriter (if anyone remembers what those things are). Having a broad knowledge of fencing-related topics, it seemed logical to pursue a project encompassing the various incarnations of the sword: history, sport, movies, biographies, literature, music, books, weapons, and technical minutiae. ![]() ![]() In time, I thought about writing books on fencing. ![]()
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