I don’t have a manuscript and will not ask you to sign a book for my collection. I just wanted to let you know that I look forward to every book that you write – I don’t follow the Sharpe series, which I should do at some point. I was a history teacher and am now an Investment Counsellor with a major Canadian investment firm and I find your novels a wonderful distraction from my usual reading fare, which usually involves non-fiction. Quite simply, you bring history to life through very personal experiences of ordinary people living in extraordinary times. An appreciative fan. Frank Charbonneau