Dear Mr. Cornwell: I have the honor of having read all your books so far and be truly an admirer of your magnificent thoroughly-researched novels. I have rather a friendly complaint regarding your last series of novels (The Saxon Series) which in my belief is your best so far. Unlike the Sharpe series, each book does not contain an independent story, and unlike the Arthur series, there are not significant events separating each of two consecutive novels. As a result, once the reader finishes, for instance, Lords of the North, he remains with a huge thirst to know what would happen next. It’s absolutely understandable from a business point of view, or perhaps more delicately put, from the publisher’s point of view, but the poor reader has to wait one full year, or perhaps more, to read the next novel. And then once that novel is published, like giving sea water to a dehydrated person, leaving him in a more desire to wait to read the next novel. With all due respect, it’s a very cruel and unusual punishment for your regular readers to wait so long periods of time to read a novel and then be left in the air to read the next one. I do hope that the follow-up to the Lords of the North come out sooner. Yours truly, Henry Guise