Dear Mr Cornwell I am thinking about writing an historical novel about one of our more infamous and colourful English Civil War regicides. I wanted to offer you the name and resources but I see from your website that you don’t encourage new book ideas. Shame, you could have really got your teeth into him and saved me a lot of work! However, I have a worry about mixing fact and fiction on the page. Do you get problems from living descendants and brain-dead historians who complain about inaccuracies or does your historical notes chapter give you a legal/moral get-out? There are living relatives of my ‘hero’ whom I wouldn’t want to upset but on the other hand I don’t want the observance of historical accuracy to put a straitjacket on a rollicking good tale. Please put my mind at rest. David