Hi Bernard –

I am Chris, a 32 year old aspiring writer from Canberra, Australia. I found your work a couple of years ago when TLK first made it onto Netflix and immediately started to tear through the written series (loved the last one by the way, Fantastic!). I am currently writing a fantasy series, that started out as a Historical Fiction and evolved from there. I have been re-reading your TLK series again for inspiration, I’m taking more time this read through to focus on arcs, particularly the friendships of Uhtred with Leofric and also Brida. But mainly I find it difficult to write fight scenes. I find you are able to describe them so effectively, and your work has helped me to improve in this area so much! I was wondering, when you write a fight scene, do you have a process for planning the fight out before you start to write? Do you play it out physically with somebody else, or some other process to visualise the action, or are you able to come up with it as you go just with an end result in mind?

Appreciate you taking the time to read this

Again, love your work Mr Cornwell, thank you so much for all the inspiration and countless hours of entertainment!

With regards –

Chris Edwards.