L.A. Wilson.

I consider myself an exciting and unconventional writer - my series of books called 'The Silurian' will challenge everything you ever read before about King Arthur and his knights. Forget Lancelot, forget Guinevere, forget Merlin, for The Silurian is not 'Mists of Avalon'; it is not 'Sword at Sunset'; is not any of those old reserved novels gone before - The Silurian blasts out a new path, where magic has been replaced by harsh reality, where the knights occupy dark age hill-forts instead of glittering castles, where they fight in battered armour passed down to them from their fathers from the days of the Romans. The Silurian is a first person narrative, spoken by Arthur's closest friend, companion, brother-in-arms, Prince Bedwyr, the Fox. And Bedwyr tells this story with honesty, passion, intense homoerotic tension, daring and pain. All of it a brand new interpretation for a new generation of readers, bound for the 21st century. Set entirely in the Dark Ages of post-Roman Britain, The Silurian blends myth, legend and historical reality into a whole - a single long narrative that speaks not only of Arthur's rise to power, but his battles against the the invading Saxons, the savage Picts, and rebel British, described in-depth and graphic; Bedwyr tells you of his life with Arthur, his struggles to know him on a deeper level, of his own life and losses, the many different touches that make up the violence and power of men who lived in Dark Age warbands, committed to their commanders and wielding swords that break. The Silurian will not give you the sugary romance of Guinevere and Lancelot; no silly magic flashes from of the head of Merlin's staff; no dragons, save Arthur himself - the Pendragon of the island of Britain, the Supreme Commander of Armies in Britannia, the Magister Militum, the Dux Bellorum, his life spoken in intimate and often grim detail by Bedwyr the Fox, prince of the Dark Age Gwynedd kingdom of Dogfeiling. The story begins in Book One, The Fox and the Bear when Arthur is fifteen and Bedwyr sixteen; this is their journey to manhood, to power and glory, to suffering and death...

I am also the author of the Jacobyte Books (Australia) Genre Fiction Award for my science fantasy - "The Red Crows of Aurora"
I publish on Lulu.com @ www.lulu.com/LAWilson

My passion is ...

writing

I know too much about ...

I was going to say King Arthur, but I've only touched the surface

My parents always told me ...

never to refuse money

My childhood ambition ...

artist

My favorite memory ...

? so many.......all good times

Why I write ...

because I must

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

the god delusion/OSTs/Lost

My first job ...

assistant to department store window dressers

My best moment ...

giving birth to my first baby

My inspiration ...

music, and King Arthur, if not for him, I wouldn't be here now

Creative Writing > Novel Excerpts Novel excerpts: Cruelty

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As soon as I joined him, he turned to me and said, "Did you hear me? What I said to Cai?"
"I did. I don't know why, but he's impossible, I know it, I heard him even out here. Got a mouth Cai has. What was it all about?"
A long tense hesitation.
"They can't leave me alone for a moment," he finally said. "Did you hear them, trying to get me to drink myself stupid? Is this what they want? Do they want me stupid? You know, even you've done this to me. You've tried to get me drunk, haven't you?"
"Once or twice. So what? It's only a bit of ale and they will be doing this to you until you let...

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