Like so many others, I absolutely love your work and can’t thank you enough for the entertainment and for helping me discover that history is fun. Your writing has a particular structure, from the beginning of a chapter, through the plot development, and then ending, usually, in a set up for someting coming later. It’s a structure (perhaps it’s better called a cadence?) that I really enjoy and I think Frederick Davidson did a fabulous job with it when he performed your books for tape. Have you listened to Mr. Davidson’s performances? I imagine that to a writer this is an amazingly ignorant question, but I’d like to know how aware are you of this? Do you really work on making that happen or is it just what comes out? Were you influenced by another writer or is the pattern and timing something you consider very much your own style? I really enjoy the way you develop plots around politics, money (lawyers), religion, and people just trying to live their lives. Brilliant, entertaining work! John