Elric stories - order of writing

[GreatOldOne]

Mike, sorry to bother you again, but I've another odd question, this one regarding "The Singing Citadel" and "The Sleeping Sorceress".

These two stories take place between two of the tales in your original run from "Science Fantasy" but were they written as an afterthought or written earlier and left unpublished.

I ask because I read somewhere that the latter,at least, remained unpublished for a while.

So, were these stories written later to beef up the Elric / Theleb K'aarna conflict, or did you, for some reason, abandon them at the time and so only publish the final story of the trilogy?

I hope that made sense....

[Michael Moorcock]

I don't remember any problems with those stories. I did write them to fit in with the existing sequence, but I don't remember leaving them aside. I just wrote them for whoever had asked for them at the time.