I began work on City of the Snakes on the 7th of June 2000. I completed my final edit on the 22nd of November 2009, so the book took almost nine and a half years to complete. Which was pretty short for one of my City books!!! Although, having said that, the book DID “cannibalize” an earlier, unfinished book of mine, a book about a vigilantee in London which I had tried to write when I was a teenager. I only got a handful of chapters or so into the story before realizing I had bitten off more than I could chew and putting it aside. But I remembered it years later and worked in some of the themes, including a particularly juicy scene involving rape with a dildo, which I recycled and included in the new book!! So, in a way, you can go back about 20 years to its “true” start!!!!!
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Hell’s Horizon is, hands down, the hardest book I’ve ever had to write, requiring the greatest amount of rewrites and fresh approaches. It was a book that failed three times, that should have been scrapped, that seemed to be going nowhere, but which ultimately became what I look upon as my own personal greatest triumph.
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I began writing Procession of the Dead, then known as Ayuamarca, on October 18th 1993, when I was just 21 years old. I finished the first draft in a month, wrapping it up on November 17th. It was 227 pages. I typed it, so I can’t give an accurate word count.
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