Background
The Dragon Lord was David Drake's first novel. He spent six months researching and drafting the plot for another author, Andrew J. Offutt, to expand into a novel. He drafted the novel for the Robert E. Howard character Cormac mac Art who lived in Arthur's time. When Offutt declined it Drake developed it himself. He wrote it in 1977—78 and after substantial edits at the request of the editor at Berkley Books, it was published as a hardcover in 1979. The publisher sold its rights to Jim Baen who requested the original version of the book, before the edits of Berkley Books. Baen at Tor Books published the post-edit paperback version in 1982. According to Drake, the hardcover and paperback versions of the novel are "significantly different".
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