Dear Mr. Cornwell, Wonderful work, you appear to be someone who really enjoys the characters and stories you create around an historic backbone. Do you find that the characters sometimes tell you what happens next? That is, you move forward along a plot line that was roughly in your head, but then something suddenly just doesn’t make sense for the character, so it turns in a direction you hadn’t chosen in the first place? Also, I read with interest your note of 21 November about how difficult it is to keep organized and especially to have to slog through the last entry in a series to preserve continuity. Ever thought about offering a limited number of “fan fellowships” to get a small group of your admirers to do it for you? Rick Smead