Hi Bernard,

We’d like to start by saying that my boyfriend and I love your books. (We just finished Uhtred and now we’re onto Arthur.) We also are currently watching The Last Kingdom on BBC, and we are greatly disappointed with the way they’ve portrayed your characters and altered the plot. I know this always happens when books are made into movies or shows, but it seems to us they took far too much license.

I’m not really sure how the process works – I imagine you as the author might not have terribly much creative control over production?

Anyway, this is what we’re really getting at – do you have any deals in the works for another network to pick this up and do it properly, say as a book-per-season kind of thing? I feel like this would be a great opportunity for a network other than HBO to give their answer to Game of Thrones (which I haven’t found half as entertaining as your books). For whatever our opinion is worth, we think that people would really get into it if they had the opportunity to see the full story and get to know the characters with the depth you’ve given them in your writing (frankly we don’t think BBC did you any favors on that front).

Also for what it’s worth, of all the people who’ve narrated your books on audio, Jonathan Keeble takes the cake, he’s great.

Anyway, we’re hoping for some good news about another television production for the Saxon Stories but until then we will continue to enjoy your other work.

Thanks so much,

Laura and Mike