Is Conan Finally Back? What the New Conan Writers Are Doing Right

Added: 2026-05-04

[00:00:00]Conan the Barbarian is an IP that is almost an entire century old. Originally written by Robert E. Howard, it has made some of the most amazing, like truly some of the best fantasy stories that exist. And as a result of that, lots of other fantasy works have come up over the years. Many of them taking great inspiration from Conan. Now, although Robert E. Howard wrote all of the original stories and really created this character and the world that he lives in, many other writers have been keeping the character alive over the years through pastiche novels and short stories that are somewhat in the spirit of Robert E. Howard. And today I've got a really special video as I got the opportunity to interview Brian Anderson, who wrote two of the new Conan short stories for Heroic Signatures. If you guys haven't read these yet, you can check them out on Amazon. The link will be in the description below, and I would definitely encourage you go and read them cuz they're really quite good stories. Thank you so much for watching The Sumerian Scholar. I put new Conan videos up every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at noon Central Time. But aside from that, let's go ahead and get on with the interview. Well, thank you so much, Brian Anderson, for coming on to the channel. And do you want to give a little bit of an introduction about yourself because you are a published author that has written I think you wrote a series for Tor Books. Is that right? I did uh back in 2020, right when the right when the my my first um I started out as a independent author. And um back in the 2010 to 2012 era when it was really starting to uh to hit. And [clears throat] I'm one of the OGs of that era, I guess you might say. And one of the first to also kind of cross over um after Michael J. Man uh not Michael Man but Michael Sullivan and uh um couple others. But yeah, so I my first uh big time big uh was big five used to be big six publishers. My first deal with them, the first book came out right when the pandemic hit. So, I'm like, "Oh, great."

[00:02:09]>> [laughter] >> Yeah, I guess that a lot of people would be reading at that point. Well, you know, you'd be surprisingly no. Oh, no.

[00:02:17]They just don't read these days in general. Well, I think it was I think it was um well, a lot of it had to do with um as an indie, my my uh digital book were uh relatively inexpensive, like $3 to $4. And then, you know, then when you have like uh indie indie stuff did really, really well um because, you know, people had limited income during that time. And uh they were, you know, everybody was pretty strapped. But when you have like that between a $3 ebook and a $12 ebook, which was the traditional >> [laughter] >> Guess which one you buy.

[00:02:52]>> [laughter] >> Yeah, my own uh is like $5, and I often just put it on sale for free cuz I want people to read it so much. Yeah. Oh, I I I totally understand. Um I I have one out right now that um it's it's a whole different animal. Well, I'm curious, since you brought up starting in indie publishing, as a writer myself, I'm just curious about how you went from indie to being actually published because that seems like impossible to navigate for myself.

[00:03:23]>> Interesting story about that. Um I I became friends through a uh online group with Michael J. Sullivan. And uh he introduced me to my agent, and my agent um liked my work, of course. And um sort of we tried a couple different things. The Dragon Rain series Dragon Dragon Rain series uh did really well with audio. Um got nominated for Book of the Year, so that that sort of helped me uh raise my profile. And um from there, eventually they um Tor decided, you know, that this is what they wanted to do. They were at the time they were also taking on a bunch of uh the higher tier indies. So, um I was I was part of that group that sort of stumbled into that. But yeah, I mean, it was it was it was a weird time.

[00:04:10]>> [laughter] >> That also brings me the question, and I I don't know, maybe there's, you know, maybe there's hope for me to stumble into it, too. But that also brings me to the question of how you [snorts] ended up getting the opportunity to do officially licensed Conan stories for Heroic Signatures.

[00:04:29]>> Again, I kind of Forrest Gumped my way into that. I was a guest at Dragon Con um a couple years ago, and um I was on a the 90th 90th anniversary, you know, Conan 90th anniversary panel with Steve Saffle and a couple other guys. And Steve knew my agent. One thing led to another. It was a It was a super cool panel. It was packed. And I have a video still of me turning the camera to the audience going, "What is best in life?"

[00:04:56]>> [laughter] >> So, if you were on that panel, you you obviously must be a long-time Conan fan.

[00:05:02]And I think that does show in your stories as well. Thank I thank you for saying so. Yeah, you know, I mean, when I was a teenager, I would read um I discovered Conan not through Howard, though. Um I um discovered Conan mainly through um the like the like Robert Jordan books and books back in the '80s.

[00:05:21]>> I apologize if my camera shut off. Um it seems to do that sometimes. I'm still here.

[00:05:26]>> Oh, that's uh that's fine, all right. Uh um back in the you know, the writers of that era um mainly because I lived in a small southern town, and uh to get to a bookstore was um pretty pretty a pretty much a trek. We had to go all the way over to Mobile. Um I live in uh Fairhope, Alabama. I was growing up in Spanish Fort, though. We had to go all the way over to Mobile to get to the Big Dalton bookstore. And I was only allowed one or two books. So, I would pick, you know, uh thicker books. And Robert E. Robert E. Howard stuff, which I did read later, were, you know, mainly um you know, short novellas. And um I was getting the biggest bang for my buck as a buck as a teenager, uh so to speak.

[00:06:11]But I got introduced to Conan that way.

[00:06:13]I would read the original Savage Swords.

[00:06:15]Those were awesome. I loved those and the Marvel comics. And I just I even had that record that that that that that album that um I forget who who published it. But it was a one of some weird couple weird stories that they had Oh, that's interesting. I might have to look for that. I think I've seen the one, though. Is it the It's the L.

[00:06:36]Sprague de Camp one, or is it like not just Conan?

[00:06:39]>> It's just Conan, and I can't remember what it's called. Um it's been, you know, I was a I was a small boy when I had that. And actually, I think thinking back, I think it was prob- that was probably my first real exposure to it. Then, of course, the the Schwarzenegger movie, which I wasn't allowed to watch except the yogurt shop uh across the street from where I lived had a laser disc. And they didn't care as long as we were buying yogurt if we whatever movie we wanted to put. So, you know, Conan was rated R.

[00:07:11]I would my parents weren't going to let me watch it. So, I But the guys at the yogurt shop didn't give a damn. So, I just really loved the character, you know, I mean, there's something about Conan, you know, I mean. And And I get it that there's a lot of people that have certain feelings about the about it. But if you really read deeply into who Conan is, there's nothing about that character that's What's not to like? I mean, you got a guy who's not just He's not just physically strong. He's strong-willed.

[00:07:40]He He may He He's not corrupt He's incorruptible. He He hates weakness, but he doesn't prey on the weak. I mean, all these laudable characteristics about about Conan, people just simply ignore. I think mainly is because they've never read the source material. They just hear the name and associate it with whatever they want to associate it with. And I I I invite these people actually take a look at the source material. I often talk about how my generation, when we were kids, like Conan was this sort of cringey thing that nobody really knew anything about, but their understanding of it came from all these sort of parodies and things that came out over the years. And I didn't get into it until I was an adult, and I started with the original stories. And I was just blown away by it. I thought, "What What My generation's been completely sleeping on this." Well, he's a he's a hero, I think, at this point in our this point in time, I think we really need an under- to help us understanding what real strength is and what real strength isn't. Cuz once you read this once you read the source material, you do realize it. Nine times out of 10, Conan thinks his way out of a situation.

[00:08:52]He I mean, he he he's more than capable of fighting his way out of it. But if you read the stories, most of the time he thinks about it. And even think about the level of misogyny that is attributed to this character. Think about Belit.

[00:09:06]Belit stays the pirate queen. She He doesn't take over the ship. He's happy to uh just He's happy to get Valeria. He lusts after this powerful woman and he seems to him unattainable.

[00:09:19]He doesn't, you know, I mean, >> He respects her as an equal. Mhm.

[00:09:23]Absolutely. And it's not that it doesn't have its flaws. Every Every character does. But my god, you know, people often judge it on things they haven't even experienced for themselves.

[00:09:35]Now, if you read the source material and you still have a way of feel a way about it, that's fine. You know, that that's what you you have every right to do that. But, you know, making your judgment on a character you've never experienced first hand through anything but hearsay is insane to me.

[00:09:50]>> Absolutely. I've got some specific questions about each story, but I'm curious first, like around when in your writing career was each story written?

[00:10:01]Um, well, the first one was written shortly after shortly after the Dragon Con where I did the panel. When I got the the way that way it worked what you did what we you got an invite and you submitted three ideas for a story and I went ahead and wrote one of them which ended up being Comrades which was the second story. But Heroic Signatures chose for me to write uh The Child. So I I'd already pre-mapped out what the story was going to be cuz I had to stay within certain parameters, word count, you know, it could be within you know, how how many words it needed to be and that was basically the only and I had to stay true to the story. Now the good thing with that what Titan and Heroic Signatures did they didn't expect me to write like Robert Howard. They didn't expect me to do an actual pastiche which I know pastiche seems to be a word that's bandied around that if you look to me I wasn't trying to write a pastiche I was trying to write a faithful character. Trying to write something that embodied Robert E. Howard's vision for that character without trying to sound like Robert E.

[00:11:13]Howard cuz I don't write like Robert E.

[00:11:15]Howard.

[00:11:17]He has his own style and and if you look at Robert E. Howard's style from Frost Giant The Frost Giant's Daughter all on through you can see how he developed and how his his dialogue developed, his characterizations developed. I mean you can see it cuz what's important to remember about Howard he was 20 years old when he got when he got started getting published with this kind with this stuff and he only had 10 years, you know, I mean that's when people would compare him to Tolkien I'm like Tolkien has had his entire life, you know. He had multiple decades to work on Middle-earth and work on work on everything. Robert E. Howard didn't have nearly as long. Well, that that's really great that you brought that up cuz that was actually one of my questions was that your Conan in these stories feels very like in the spirit and it feels correct for Howard's Conan.

[00:12:11]However, it's also you are your own writer, you're not Robert E. Howard and you write with your own voice that's unique from Robert E. Howard's. I was curious if it was tempting to try and lean into Robert E. Howard's voice. I thought that would be disingenuous, you know, I thought that would be me trying to be Howard instead of trying to be inspired by him. And first of all that's what not what they asked asked me to do and it's not something I would have wanted to do. I don't want to try to be Howard. Howard is Howard, you know, I mean. Yeah, I get you can be inspired by by a writer but I didn't want to He writes in a very poetic way.

[00:12:54]Well, obviously from you know, he studied poetry but and and it really shows in his in his prose and I didn't do a couple call outs in in in what in the you know, have him with panther white footfalls and stuff like that. I think I made a couple references to that.

[00:13:13]That was my way to shout out to to the to Howard's prose but yeah. No, I didn't I didn't want to be I I didn't want to try to do that. I mean and it's okay with if somebody does but that's just not me. When you were saying does that mean that the story The Child was the one that came out first? Yes, that that came out first and I I really I I just enjoyed the heck out of writing it.

[00:13:40]Originally Steve Saffel who was the editor over at Titan at the time he thought Comrades which which is the most recent one that came out with this latest batch of short stories he thought that one was the one that got accepted and actually edited [clears throat] it.

[00:13:55]So you're actually both of my stories were primarily edited by Saffel cuz the next time I I submitted I they they chose Comrades and it was already pre-edited. So shout out to Steve Saffel who did a lot to bring this character back into public awareness. That's great. I've seen a lot of people doing a lot of shout outs to him so that's great.

[00:14:21]>> He deserves He deserves every one of them. He deserves every one of them. The guy did so much for this franchise. I'll go ahead and start with my questions for The Child but first I wanted to say that very much in the spirit of Howard I love your introductions to both of these stories how they drop us right off into just right off into a point in Conan's life with high action and it feels very much in line of the original short stories where we don't necessarily have a whole exposition dump as a setup. We actually have starting off with action and I mean I think that's really great.

[00:15:00]That's one of the things I love about the Conan stories is that we don't always need a whole prologue to it all.

[00:15:07]Like we can just get right into it. I thought you did a really good job with that.

[00:15:11]>> Thank you. Oh, I did notice in this story there was a part when Conan was showing some interest in a female character and I noticed you placed a little more emphasis on the romance and the lust sort of that Conan was feeling which was interesting cuz Howard always hints at it in his stories but I thought that you definitely put a little more like care and emphasis on it in this particular instance. That was a choice that we discussed actually discussed with the guys over at Heroic Signatures that Conan was a lustful warrior and that there was an opportunity there to show that part of his character and after a a talk with them I decided that would be a good place to to show the show the reader that part that aspect of him. So yeah, that was actually a conscious choice. I put that there on purpose but not but after consultation with the good folks at Heroic Signatures. Yeah, I did feel like it was a fitting place for it for sure and it gives us a little bit more of a view into his mind in some of these situations. And then a lot more of my questions have to do with Comrades. I really liked that story but I do have one main question for The Child. I was really surprised he saves a witch. Well, I mean she's not a witch. Okay, okay. So she was not actually a witch but so the girl's child is part demon. Yes, the girl's child was cursed.

[00:16:49]So without giving too much away um I maybe I'm spoiling too much. I cut that out.

[00:16:55]>> No, no, no, no. You can keep that in just fine. It doesn't really spoil anything. One one of the things that Conan has to remember is about people have to remember about Conan he lives by a certain code. I mean even even harming a child would be something that would be against his It's not like he's not the kind of guy that could do something like that if there was absolutely no other choice but you know, he doesn't he doesn't hurt children and you know, if he if he can help it and he but at the same time I I tried to put him in a sort of a moral quandary and I would try to show the reader where where his code of ethics actually were and the way he dealt with the woman's husband and where his alliances fell toward the end and how he came to the conclusions that he came to.

[00:17:45]I thought that it kind of fit the character how that Howard invented. I hope the reader agrees with that.

[00:17:51]>> I agree, too. I don't think it's too unlike some of the stuff we've seen in Howard's stories. There's obviously there's not a ton of examples where usually in Howard's stories the these types of characters are more just the villain and there's not a lot of debate about it. However, in Hour of the Dragon we do actually see an example of Conan being helped by a witch. Well, I mean I would it's a it's a pity that One of the advantages to to the Howard's short career was that for writers anyway that we have this partially empty tapestry to play around in. He left a lot because he didn't you know, he didn't have a lifetime to to fill in all the blanks. But he did so much in so little of time it's you know exactly who Conan is and it's not even if there's no direct examples of something Conan did or something Conan might have done you know, something Conan did directly there's enough there to you it's easy enough to infer what he would have done.

[00:18:55]Yeah. All right, I'm going to move on to Comrades cuz I have a lot more about this one. This was kind of a roller coaster for me to read a little bit and my feelings about the story shifted from time to time until completing it and I thought wow, that was a good story.

[00:19:12]Comrades was actually inspired by a Savage Sword episode issue that I read when I was a teenager.

[00:19:21]>> Really? Which Do you know which one that is off the top of your I I don't I but the but the plot stuck with me for 40 years. So you know, I mean so it was a pretty good one. It was Conan fighting alongside this young man and then at the end he the they end up on opposite sides of a conflict. Conan doesn't directly kill the young man but he does see that the young man was killed in the battle. How close to that comic is the story? Oh, that's the only similarity.

[00:19:52]>> Okay. So It's literally the only similarity, but it was inspired that that whole concept was inspired by by a Savage Sword episode I read when I was a teenager. I thought and when I when I had the opportunity to to add you know add my two cents that's I took it and it was actually the first story I wrote.

[00:20:15]The child it was the second story I wrote the first published. If you can place this story somewhere into the timeline of Conan's life, I was curious as I was reading it sort of roughly where it's at.

[00:20:27]>> I'm sure I envision I didn't put it in an exact point in in time. I didn't say this is right after Red Nails or you know or anything like that. I wasn't that I just sort of like pictured him in about 5-6 years after post leaving Samaria which would have put him around 23-24 years old. Then he leaves leaves Samaria at 18. And he and I hope I hope my timeline's correct there.

[00:20:54]But so I would have put him in in Comrades as a as a young man having learned enough about these quote-unquote civilized world to to get by on it without without too much without too much trouble but still not long enough to have fully accepted all the ways you know to to be kind of rebellious about some of the ways and customs of of that world. Yeah, that feels about right to me. That's sort of roughly what I was picturing.

[00:21:28]I might do a spoiler warning here.

[00:21:31]>> [laughter] >> The ending of the story I thought was so good and so this character well, okay.

[00:21:38]Again, spoiler warning.

[00:21:40]This character Titus I I really liked this character throughout the story especially in the early parts. Of course, we see Conan fighting alongside Titus towards the beginning and I I really liked that character. I thought he was really good and then of course what we come to find out later on was kind of a shock, but I see I don't know how I can really touch on this without really spoiling the whole story. Maybe I'll cut it out. We'll see, but Well, being that we we already know what it was inspired by, I think we can we we can infer what happens to Titus.

[00:22:19]The end was just so good, I thought. I thought it really fit the character the way Conan dealt with dealt with that situation and um one of the things that I did this was purposeful and I know a lot of people would have um if you didn't understand Conan might have thought that that the noble that was you know funding all this that Conan would have like hit him or killed him or done something of that nature. You wouldn't realize that's not who Conan was. You know what I mean? He wanted to, but he had he had he had enough sense not to do that. You know what I mean?

[00:22:55]Think about it. I forget the name of the story it escapes me. But he's put in charge of an entire army because of a prophecy.

[00:23:03]And um I believe that's Black Colossus. Yes.

[00:23:08]And um he there's this this noble who is in charge of this bunch of knights.

[00:23:17]And the guy doesn't like that Conan's in charge and Conan has the sense not to you know the guy that resists his orders and Conan doesn't like flatten him knock him off his horse or anything cuz he knows he needs this guy's warriors in order to win the larger battle. And I sort of like drew on that a little bit when I was towards the end when I how I had him deal with the the noble who had hired his hired him him as a mercenary.

[00:23:45]>> Well, it was a shock to me what he actually does. So here here's the real big spoiler, but he he hold he's holding the spear and you have an idea of what he's about to do, but he hurls the spear in a different direction and that was you know I thought it was really good and it made sense what he did especially I I I just thought the way you wrapped up the story was excellent. I really it made it all come around.

[00:24:11]>> And not just me but any any of us that are that are given the opportunity to add to this world we do whether or not you like the story you know my story or any of the others it's important to remember that we're not doing this for for the gold.

[00:24:27]We're doing this cuz we love Conan and we're trying our best to stay faithful to Robert's Robert E. Howard's vision. It's we don't none of us none of us are going to get it right 100% of the time because you know we are who we are and we're not who we're not, but when we make these kind of decisions it's all of us all all of the writers who who are allowed to participate in in building building out this legacy. Um we we keep that in mind and you know because it's it's us I know for me if I would have told my young young self that I've been actually write official Conan stories, I would have I would have not believed me.

[00:25:12]Uh you know to me It's a dream, right?

[00:25:15]>> Uh well, it is. You know, I get to help help you know, expand something that I loved as a kid and I still love today.

[00:25:24]I think Conan one of the videos you made the video you made that ended up seeing us here today. I think that the younger generation is discovering Conan because I do think he is the type of hero that we're needing right now and people are starting to learn that he's not Don't get me wrong.

[00:25:41]I love the the Arnold movie and is wonderful, but it's also not faithful to the type of character Conan was. Conan like Conan Conan laughed and partied and you know, he was a he was good natured a loyal friend. He was a lot of wonderful things that I think um we would like to see in ourselves. Um the the the the latest Conan movie um I think I love I love the first one better, but I think they actually kind of portrayed the character more faithfully to Howard's vision and cuz he's laughing other Samarians really thought Conan was laughed and smiled too much.

[00:26:25]>> [laughter] >> Well, you know, I really love you talk about him being a loyal friend and I love this part in Hour of the Dragon when Conan is on the ship and the captain of the ship is basically wanting him to just be a part of the crew and serve him and he's like you know, no way and he frees the slaves that are rowing the ship and calls them by name. He actually knows them and they all start chanting Amra you know, because and that part was so good and it just shows you how much like people are loyal to Conan as well. So Well, you have a character like that inspires loyalty. He's a he is inspirational and I think like I said I think it is the type of hero that that a lot of people are very hungry for at this point in our history.

[00:27:12]>> Okay, so I think that's most of my questions. Obviously anyone watching if you guys haven't read these stories yet, you can head on over to Amazon. They are ebook format and short stories just like the original Howard short stories roughly probably somewhat comparable in length to a lot of the >> Yeah, they they most of them are anywhere between 65 and 65 and uh 10,000 6,500 and 10,000 words.

[00:27:43]Um they're Titan's releasing one every month. They just had one come out. There's and it's not just Conan they're coming out with their they're also doing Solomon Kane. They're also they're doing a it's not just Conan it's a bunch of they did something about Bêlit couple different stories.

[00:28:01]Uh we all got to pick you know who we wanted to write about and you know when we put our idea you know ideas in which character we wanted to tackle. With me it had to be Conan, but some other people wanted to tackle you know Kull the Conqueror. Some other people wanted to tackle Bêlit. There was El Borak. There was there was a bunch of different there's a bunch of different Robert E. Howard characters that that uh Heroic Signatures decided to release in these short story form. And I I hear rumor that they're going to put at least the first batch into into a compilation into a omnibus. Oh, good like a print format. I hope that's true. I hope that I can't verify that, but I keep hearing it.

[00:28:46]I hope they're going to really do that.

[00:28:47]That was my biggest like kind of complain about this is I thought these are awesome stories, but I would really like to have them on my bookshelf. So that's good to hear. Well, I Hopefully now if Heroic Signatures is watching this, you know, I am a writer myself. I don't have an agent, but you know, I would love the opportunity if it were to come my way, but I'm curious if there's any possibility cuz I think the subscribers are really going to enjoy this video. I don't know if you have any way to get me into contact with some of the other writers to do some more of these interviews. Well, yeah yeah, I can I can definitely put you in touch with a couple of them.

[00:29:28]If you really want to talk to them I would suggest shooting a shooting an email over to Titan Books. I'm sure they'd be happy to. But with these guys the writers aren't like actors, you know, we're we're always happy to do stuff.

[00:29:44]Just most all all these guys have their own websites and have their own contacts. I mean if you wanted to go through it and and you know especially if you're writing you know if you're giving your content I'm sure most if not all of them would be happy to do it. Yeah yeah I mean we we're doing we're doing these because we love Conan. We're not we're not doing this to get rich.

[00:30:05]>> And if if any of the other writers are watching this I will probably try to send an email out but you can also find my email on my channel so be sure to reach out if you're interested. So to wrap it up obviously you've done other work aside from Conan and I'm sure you probably would like to give some words about that to the viewers as well so feel free to call anything out that you want people to look into. Yeah absolutely.

[00:30:33]My latest release is called The Forged Worlds which is book one and Souls of the Descendants. Sort of my fantasy magnum opus.

[00:30:44]I released book one in two parts because it was a big chunky boy. It's only for about format only. I mean we're talking like over 700 pages but it is it is in my estimations some of the best best writing I've ever done and you're talking about a very complex world with multiple character arcs.

[00:31:05]It's right now it's on ebook format. Book part one is already out. Part two is coming out in about a week and a half and a month after that I'm going to put out the entire book as one book but for now I priced the first one at 99 cents cuz it's a big commitment such a long book and make sure somebody wants to continue it.

[00:31:31]And you know I'm not all cash grabby.

[00:31:35]So when book two comes out they'll be able they'll be able to finish it off without having to wait forever whatever cuz it's already written. That would be the one I'd really want or you can look me up on Amazon. I have I released 25 novels in other science fiction and fantasy genre. A lot of indie stuff a lot of traditional stuff and I have a book coming out next year with Art Manor Books. It's a little bit of a departure from my my normal fare with it's a fantasy murder mystery. Think Colombo meets Lord of the Rings. It's called The Strange Death of Lord Jaylen Marr.

[00:32:13]I don't think it's available for pre-order yet but you can definitely bookmark it in good reads. It'll be it's a lot of fun I enjoyed writing. Thank you so much for coming on the show Brian. I really appreciate it and if you guys haven't checked out his stories already be sure to go and check those out on Amazon. I can place some links in the description as well and aside from that I think that's pretty much most of my questions. Well I appreciate you having me. It was a lot of fun.

[00:32:41]You can ask me back anytime and shout out to the guy guys over Skulls and Dogs and all the Conan fans out there. I want you to read my stories but also there's a lot of a lot of writers out there working really hard to keep the keep Howard's vision alive so check them out. Awesome.

[00:32:59]Well thank you so much. Thank you. Hey thank you guys so much for watching that. I hope you enjoyed it. Again be sure to go and check out those stories.

[00:33:07]They're really good and I've got to do a quick shout out to my patrons. Thank you so much Austin Brown Aaron Nate Frogmorton and James Mills for the support. If you guys want shout outs in these videos you can click the link in the description below to head on over to my Patreon. For $3 a month you'll get shout outs in all these videos as well as access to my comic series Hollow Point and a short story that I wrote but also it just supports this channel. Now if anyone from Heroic Signatures is watching like I said in the interview I don't have an agent but I am a writer.

[00:33:39]I've got two novels that I've written both fantasy novels. The second one Wrath of Torak is more of a sword and sorcery novel. For the viewers you can get access to that in the link in the description below but I would love to write a short story for Conan. I that would be a dream come true and unfortunately like I said I don't have an agent but if the opportunity were to come my way I would do it with the utmost care and respect for the source material. Also if any of the other writers happen to be watching this interview I would really like to do some more of these and interview the rest of you guys. So reach out the email my email you can find in the about section of this channel. That would be great.

[00:34:23]Otherwise I'll try to get in contact with you guys. Now if you guys are looking for another video to watch and you want something similar in format to this one sort of a long form discussion podcast format video you can go ahead and click this one right here where I had a conversation with a college professor from Texas Tech University about barbarism versus civilization.

[00:34:46]This was a really fun one so be sure to go and check that out next and I'll see you guys over there.