The process of realizing you need to rewrite

I printed out one of my novels from some years back called The Tales of Reagul: A Season of Kings. I was reading through it, and something latched onto me as I continued reading: the "evil" character who dominates much of the novel takes the name David. The rest of the characters all have Roman-inspired names. Now, an explanation: the name obviously came from my childhood where I lived with an abusive step-father named David (a story for another time), so he obviously fit the perfect name at the time for a villain. But only now, I've realized this kind of comes off as a very anti-semitic novel because every character that is good is Roman, while the one really bad guy has the name of one of the early great Jewish kings.

So, I've had to change the name completely. It's interesting how these things slip by you and you never even realize it.

I intend to send the book out Monday. Daw Books requested a look at it.

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