Dear Sir, I neither have a manuscript I would like you to read or indeed a book that needs signing. However, as always with my books I put a comment on the inside cover before giving it to someone else asking them to do the same when they are finished. I should add that I am yet to read a book by you that I do not like and thus my comments are positive, as are most of the responses on that inside cover that occasionally comes full cirle and allows me the pleasure of reading everybody elses!! My copy of the winter king was in circulation for ten years, somebody actually stuck an extra page for comments in the back cover! I figure at the very least this makes a good dinner topic for you and I would imagine gives you great satisfaction, although I except that this probably cost you money! I do know that everyone I gave a book to had never read you work so who know where that journey took them. I am actually writing to find out when your sequel to the Lords of the North may be ready? I’m not hurrying you or anything, if you are in the throws of some terrible wordblock episode then I apologise,I just need to know at least there is one coming! Yours with great admiration, Richard Douglas