![]() ![]() My pulse kicked up and I knew I was on to something. What if he’d been shot down but lived through it? Even better, what if he had died but then rose again to continue fighting? But the pump had been primed and other ideas began to flow as a result. What if he had lived? What if he had continued to add to his amazing streak of victories, bringing his confirmed kills to well over his historical total of 82 enemy planes? Would that provide the oomph I needed? ![]() Noting that, historically speaking, Richthofen had been shot down and killed in April 1918, I asked myself how the war would have changed if that hadn’t happened. I dug through my notes, looking for a hook that I could use to make him a bit more sinister in the overall scheme of things. He was too…average…and what I needed was a villain that made the reader sit up and take notice. My villain, the Baron Manfred von Richthofen, just wasn’t cutting it. ![]() I could add lots of steampunk gizmos and gadgets to give it a unique flavor as well.īut as I began to write, I realized that something was missing. What I wanted to write was a Dirty Dozen kind of story, a near-suicide mission-behind-enemy-lines kind of thing, except I wanted my version to be set World War One instead of World War Two. No, I wasn’t going to write a zombie novel. Rotting corpses with minimal intelligence endlessly wandering around with a taste for human flesh? What’s the point? What kind of villain is that? I always swore I’d never write a zombie novel. ![]() In By the Blood of Heroes, Joseph Nassise is the guy who puts them together. ![]()
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