Recently I’ve been kinda burnt out on wuxia and have given it a rest and gone back to my first love: westerns.

Ever since I was a little kid with my cap gun revolvers watching Rustlers’ Rhapsody I have been into westerns; I take after my dad that way. Like most people, I know westerns for the most part from film and TV, but I have been exploring more of the literary side of westerns, which like wuxia, is where the genre started.

The parallels between the two genres do not end there. A long time ago I noticed the similarities between the two genres—I suspect that it was these similarities that unconsciously drew me to wuxia in the first place—and for years now I have wanted to write about them in detail. I have begun working on such a book. I think this wil be my formal introduction of wuxia to the Western public. Everyone knows about westerns, so comparing the similaritites and differences between it and wuxia ought to be a good way to illustrate wuxia as a genre.