Friday, November 01, 2024

Mary Renault's novels--she was gay herself--and thus able to write "the homosexual side"

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Alexander+the+great+novels+by+Mary+Renault
The Persian Boy is exceptional.
Alexander "inherited" Bogaos, who was Darius' "Persian Boy."
He figures prominantly Funeral Games--at the death of Alexander in Babylon.

You need substantial success as a self-published author before some agent will look at you,

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