Author: hbfaulkner

Hello Readers,

Finally the third book in the series, “Dauntless Triumph”, is published and available on Amazon. It took an extremely long time because it became too long and I had to split it into two books, and because my initial choice for author services, such as editing and cover design, was awful. But all this is past and I hope you enjoy it.

Greetings Readers:

I am still working on the third book. I have written a first draft of about 7/8ths of the narrative, and it has become clear that it will be well over five hundred pages. My feeling is that this length will put off a lot of potential readers. The book has two parts: the Battle of Midway, in which Alan continues to be a dive bomber pilot, and and the rest of the summer of 1942, when Alan transfers to fighters, learns to fly and fight in the Wildcat, and participates in the invasion of Guadalcanal and the Battle of the Eastern Solomons. Because of the great length of the book, I have decided to split it into two books covering those two parts.

Now I have started work on the first part, first writing an ending. Then I have to get the rest of the book beyond the narrative together and begin the process of editing. So things are moving along, hopefully faster than they have been.

Second Post January 25, 2021

Please note that the photo caption is wrong. The airplanes in the picture are Northrop BT-1 s, not Douglas TBDs.

Henry Faulkner

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