I'm "middle-aged", married once, have nine children and a growing number of grandchildren, and I'm retired. I have plenty of time for writing and researching. Perversely, I have little ambition to do so. The books I have written seem to have satisfied my urge to explore and express in this medium. "I know practically nothing about almost everything." That's a mantra that keeps me from getting too full of myself.

The test of a good book is when the author can return to it after many years and find it satisfying. Because we mature in our thinking as we age, it usually happens that a return to earlier literary creations shows up how ignorant we were. If a book we wrote back then stands up to the passing of time, we must have done something right. I must have succeeded in retaining the good stuff and disposing of the bad; because, despite the inevitable flaws that I see now and could not see then, my books and short stories from the swiftly receding past entertain me today.

I put up most of what I think I know on the subject of the Norman Conquest at my Website, see link below....

Website: http://www.1066.us

http://www.amazon.com/Jackals-Iron-Merlin-Douglas-Larsen/dp/1888106832/ref=sr_1_1_title_0_main?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1323036344&sr=1-1

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