Thank you for many hours of reading pleasure and trips to other times and places. A couple of idle questions for a rainy day: How do the Sharpe's books do in France? Is the delay in the Starbuck books due in part to a glut of Civil War novels or to difficulties in having the hero on the "wrong" side in this politically correct world? What is the tiniest nit someone has picked in one of your books? Just curious! M. Walsh
Sharpe books in France? Firelighters? The delay in Starbuck is entirely because the TV series of Sharpe came along and it was more sensible to write Sharpe novels than Starbuck novels, and as soon as I've got Sharpe out of my system I'll go back to Starbuck. And the tiniest nit picked? An eight page, utterly furious letter because I'd got a bit of Boston's geography slightly wrong - very slightly - and I don't even remember what it was now, but it came from a Starbuck book.