Hi Bernard .

I am and have been a huge fan of your work for a long time. I hope you don’t mind answering a few questions. (1) With regards to your writing style do you  have a personal preference between writing in the first person or the third person and is there a particular assessment you make choosing first or third person before you begin writing a new series of books? (Your prose is so awesome and brutal in the first person) (2) Back in the day when you were writing two books a year and alternating between Sharpe and another novel set in another period of history, did it take any effort or change of writing style to transition and capture the particular period you were writing of or was it seamless? (3) Do you have any plans to come to New Zealand in the foreseeable future? Thanks Bernard
Dean Newman