It helped me to put our own culture into perspective. Mary Renault, with all her books bridged the deep divide of time and brought relevance to the ancient times of the Greeks. I always wanted to write a tale of ancient Greece, with the hope that modern readers could again with ease discover the roots of our heritage and hear the ancients speak to us with their timeless vigour. My novel was a finalist in the HarperCollins Fiction Prize. Despite that, it is difficult to find a publisher for a first novel.
Publishing is first of all a numbers game.
I have posted the first chapter of my 120,000 words novel on my homepages and hope you will look at it. I would very much appreciate you signing my guest-book I placed on the lead page, or to send me an email. I hope if enough of you are positively disposed to the sample chapter that a publisher might be found to publish the novel. My novel captures for modern readers the tale of Cypselus, how against all odds he became king of Corinth. The love for his friend and mentor spurred him along his difficult path.