Hi Mr. Cornwell. This question treads on somewhat delicate ground. These days, you are turning out a book every year and enjoying the many things other than writing that life has to offer. This is fine as long as you are still with us to do it. However, you have to finish the Uhtred, Sharpe, and Starbuck sagas, which I would guess to be about 20 books total, and I imagine that there are a couple other small projects you have in mind. Would you be likely to pick up the pace a bit in years to come, back to your old two books a year or at least 1 1/2 a year if you suspect the yearly book schedule will not allow you to finish your series before you shuffle off this mortal coil? I ask because, to my mind, few things are as sad as work forever left unfinished (George MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman series are a recent example). Alan Kempner