Well dip me in tar and feathers why don't you?....I am shocked, sir; absolutely shocked!
John Jakes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Brak was John Jakes' tribute/hommage, etc. to REH. In many ways intensely derivative, in some ways very much Jakes' own work, they are an essential for anyone heavily interested in S&S. Though seriously flawed, there is something about those tales that I do find fascinating, so that I periodically find myself going back to them.
And here I was thinking I knew most of the main S&S folks.... Please don't forget that if you were brought up in the good ol' US of A that you're more likely to have been better exposed to the S&S influences than if you were growing up in Australia. *POUTS*...
Thanks for the link, I'll probably investigate John Jakes work too.
OH and Jirel predates Elak by at least 4 years in terms of publication, so you're right on that score.