Hi, I e-mailed you a couple of months ago about where i could find useful sources for a book I am writing. At your advice I began to search for related material and found a marvelous book about the history of Scotland written by Magnus Magnusson. Since buying the book, and a couple of other’s my story has come on leaps and bounds (88,000 words and counting) so thanks for your help. But still I have questions so here goes… When you are writing your first draft do you want it to be as close to the finished article as possible or do you have a lot of editing to do before it is ready to submit? And I am struggling to find a decent database for family crests and battlefield standards from the 13th-14th centuries is there anything you can suggest that might help me? thanks in advance… ps hopefully you may come across a book called Saltire in a couple of years (fingers crossed). Michael Cunningham