I do medieval reenactments. We even built a fort to attack. During one of our reenactment battles(when I was a bit younger) and the Fort was new, two of my friends threw me over the crenelation. My two friends called me an idiot for doing it.
Years later when I was “King” of our group, I read an excerpt of your book at practice. Everyone loved it. As you can guess I read the part about Hook throwing Sir John over the wall at Harfleur, I couldn’t stop laughing at the way John called him a “stupid archer”. I could totally identify with the story and so could everyone else.
Thanks so much and make sure to keep that humor….
-kurn
ps: The funniest thing you’ve ever written was the part when Æthelwold makes a mockery of Uhtred’s swearing to the Church…cannot remember which book, but Funniest thing I ever read!
Kurn o’Farrell