Greetings Readers:
I have avoided getting into blogging until now because I would rather be working on the third book, but I want to provide a place where readers can give feedback.
First, I originally planned six novels. At the outset I eliminated the first, where Alan would be in the Submarine Service, because I did not have enough background without doing a lot of research.
That leaves the five that are mentioned in some of the promotional copy. The fifth is questionable because it involves going into the middle of 1943, where the overall uncertainty, that that was a defining characteristic the war in the Pacific in 1942, was much reduced. We’ll see how much energy I have left when the fourth is published.
I have been hard at work on the third novel since the second was published. It has been delayed by some other activities I could not avoid, and by its own complexity, stemming from the number of transitions that Alan goes through. I am at least three quarters of the way through the first draft, so it is making progress.
The fourth novel, which will have Alan going ashore to fight with the Marines on Guadalcanal, will also be complex.
Henry Faulkner