Dear Mr Cornwell. As an avid reader of all your books, as well as those you wrote with your wife, I found your excellent website for the first time tonight. I read with great interest your advice on writing a book and getting it published. I’ve written four (reasoably successful)stage shows and over a period of nearly two years turned the plotline for one of the shows into a novel. I went through every emotion you described, including the euphoria and joy of producing my first “child”. After numerous rejections it is now with an agent who has belief in its future…..or at least is prepared to take a gamble! The message, as you stated, is persevere and believe in yourself. My thanks for persevereing and as a result giving so much pleasure to the reading world (as well as to yourself). Richard Hardie