Lev Butts Lists the Best of Self-Publishing VIII
Since last month's post started out as an intro to this one that grew in the telling , let's just jump right in to my selection for this month's great self-published book. Jump in like Holmes and Moriarty over Reichenbach Falls The Swithen by Scott Telek I have been a fan of the King Arthur legends since I was old enough to read, so much so that I am writing my own version of them . This series, then, is of particular interest to me. It is certainly the most ambitious. As anyone who has studied Arthurian myth knows, what we tend to think of as "Arthurian" legend really comes from one book: Thomas Malory's Le Mort D'Arthur and one or two other related texts, usually Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and sometimes Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the King's of Britain or Chretien de Troyes' Arthurian poems . However, Arthurian legends are much more than three or four texts. There are literally hundreds, maybe ...