Hi,
I came upon your books by accident, and greatly enjoyed reading one of your sailing books, I found the sailing knowledge, very true to life and then found out you were the author of Sharpe, who of course I had loved at TV level (soon to read some of those) back in the 80s.
What I have observed is that you must spend a huge amount of time doing factual research, historical and actual (sailing etc), how does that work out with living in America, writing as you do of European History largely, and how do you get round the European historical stuff, a firm base of Latin?
My interest is keen as I really enjoy the thrill of a metaphorical chase, through ancient manuscripts in search of clues etc. and enjoy writing, but find I cannot even start a True Romance (I wish I could I like the late Mary Stewarts style, which is not dissimilar to yours, you both have a very immediate feel, in her Arthurian/Merlin books the crystal cave etc) but was pondering  finding a good historic plot through actual people’s lives and research.
So I  wished to say I really enjoy your books style immediacy and the pace of your novels and the historical accuracy I feel they contain, and wondered how does one get access to all that minutiae of detail and track down the historical backgrounds the battles and family feuds and the Grail history,
You seem to have dabbled in the Grail history Cathars etc and I was wondering if further books are forthcoming certainly the material is there, wouldn’t St George’s lance have been better as the sacred labce that was kept in Antioch? Too real.
Great stories well written

a fan
Kim