MYK: Prince of the Vends Some novels just seem to spring out of small events. I was sitting in a park where the Nahe River flows into the Rhine River thinking how our ancestors 2,000 years ago negotiated that mighty waterway that had been the dividing line between the Roman Empire and my ancestors—the Northern Barbarians. The stretch of land I was sitting on didn’t have a lot of historical significance except it contained the grave of a Roman Centurion named “Panther” who as a young man, some claim, was the father of Jesus. So, as I sat there trying to put all that information together, I thought to myself—what would happen if a small detachment of Roman legionnaires was sent to scout as far as they could east of the Rhine River? MYK—Prince of the Vends, is a novel based on a “what if” scenario. What if, a small Roman cavalry unit on a scouting mission encountered a Mongol detachment of explorers and fought a pitched skirmish where only a few of the Romans survived along with a couple of the Mongols? Add to that, another “what if” a remnant tribe from the once great Celtic nation—Vends—observed the skirmish and captures both the Roman and the Mongol survivors. Through the Romans and Mongols, the Vend tribe learns “modern” methods of fortification for their village, discipline for their warriors and farming techniques—all from the Roman survivors. From the Mongol warrior, the Vends learn how to make the deadly composite bow and they learn how to ride the stiff-legged Mongol ponies using stirrups that make excellent mobile platforms for firing the deadly bows. Combined, the cultures produce a very powerful Vend tribe under the enlightened leadership of Lech and his wife Slava and a new nation emerges in north central Europe. MYK—Prince of the Vends is a historical adventure novel balanced between action and living conditions during the 2nd century A.D. in Middle Europe. The novel has been intentionally designed through the use of a variety of characters to build a very wide reader base. There are strong male and female characters, Northern Europeans, Southern Europeans, Eastern Slavs, North African, Hebrew and Oriental main characters that are believable and identifiable to the reader. The novel took seven-and-a-half years to research and two major re-writes. I lived three years in Northern Italy and four years in Germany where I spent hundreds of hours roaming over old fortifications, visiting museums and studying the terrain the novel relates in vivid descriptive writing. I’ve has seen and smelled the land and that is revealed in the novel. MYK: Prince of the Vends, is an eBook chronicle that can be found on amazon, I assure you once you begin the saga, you will have a difficult time putting the novel down—Yes, it’s that good. (Sometimes we know when we’ve done something right.) Don amazon/Myk-Prince-Vends-D-Zlotnik-ebook/dp/B00CRRBC7O/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1394198026&sr=1-1&keywords=MYK%2C+prince+of+the+vends
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 19:11:25 +0000
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