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.