Hi

I have just finished the first rewrite of Book 8 which I think will be titled La Licorne (The Unicorn).

The trouble with writing a series is what do you do if there is a 'dead' period historically over the years the next part of the story runs in. You could just skip it, Alexander Kent did that with the Bolitho books,. You can fill in by keeping your hero at home and closing off a few plot lines, or you can search like hell and find something you can hang a story on,

The last option is what I did in this book. Apart from outright French Victories over the Spanish there were really only two events in 1810 and 11 that fit. The French attack on the Line of Torres Valdes and the siege of Cadiz. Not much to write 70,000 words around but somehow a story emerged,

So as usual in this series our hero gets into all sorts of scrapes, his wife also and emerges, sort of, victorious at the end.

It will probably be published in May. I will update you on this blog

Stay Healthy

Chris