Dear Mr. Cornwell, Thank you for Uhtred. I picked up The Gallows Thief a few years ago after reading a nice review of it and later decided to read your other works. I now wait in eager anticipation (it is almost painful) until you publish the next installment in the Saxon series. I do not want to be one of those fans who begs you to hurry up, and I realize that it is unlikely, and even impossible to speed the creative process. Could you please just kind of focus on the Saxons and ignore this Sharpe fellow and the others for a few years? :> I do wonder what you read, or even if you read in your spare time? While I am certainly curious, YOU MUST STOP THIS LOLLYGAGGING ABOUT AND GET TO IT MAN! Kidding. Which authors engage you like you engage us? Lori Elliot