Loving your books so far – have been reading them on the nook – so please do all you can to get all your books in eBook format. I have been reading the Saxon Tales and just finished The Burning Land. Very good as usual however I noted a difference in the writing on this one. First you seemed to move to Uhtred retelling the details of an event from his “retirement home” more in this book? Any reason other than because “you felt like it”? Two, you introduced and used the term Jarl often in this book. I believe it was the first reference of that term in the series? Is it because it was a term you learned during your research after the first books were written – or was it a term that only became a “term” during Uhtred’s life? Looking forward to the next book – and I do hope Uhtred does not sell out his pagan ways and become a Christian. As a freethinker myself – this is very refreshing!

A suggestion that might be fun for a future book – if you could team up with a fellow author (Ken Follett would be awesome!) and both of you write a separate book on the same story from different points of views. For instance – the events in the Burning Land could have also been written by the another author from the perspective of Haesten. That would be a very interesting read! The stories would divulge where the characters are in different locations but same when they are in the same battle or location.
Patrick Nance