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  1. Mr. Roberts,

    I found your series on Amazon about a year and a half ago and am a very big
    fan of it! I’m a thirteen year old living in the Los Angeles area and have an excessive
    interest in the Vikings (you don’t know how many times my mother has told me to stop chattering about Viking laws and customs at the dinner table). I’ve recently started to read Icelandic sagas and love how you incorporate Viking-Age Scandinavian culture
    into your literature. I can’t wait to see Halfdan Hroriksson return in book four. Good job and keep up the good work!

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    • I have just completed the 3 novels plus the abdstract of The VBeast of Dublin.
      May I say how wonderful your novels are, Clearly well researched
      I am a Bernard Cornwell follower. You now have me as a follower
      Can’t wait for the next production
      Would like to value add to the Beast if you have time
      Truly great to see your imagination and knowledge come to print
      Cheers
      Howard Riach, Queensland ,Australia

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  2. Hi, I just wanted to let you know that you have three generations of our family hooked on your series. I found your book on Amazon while searching for a gift for my father. He quickly ordered the following books and passed the series on to me to read. Each night I would read, and then in the morning would retell what I had read to my eight year old son. It has been so fun experiencing Halfdan’s adventures with both my dad and my son. We all love your work and look forward to book 4.
    ~Lori (Arne and Ryan, too!)

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  3. Hey Mr. Judson,

    i was wondering if you are planning on making this into a movie? I think that would be awesome. I already posted here but i just wanted to ask you that question. I still absolutely love your books and am reading them again for the 8th (hmmm maybe 9th) time.

    Thanks for the great books… i am literally waiting for the next book with anxiety, that how much i want to read it.

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    • Thanks for writing, Nolan. I would love to see the Strongbow Saga become a movie (or probably several movies), and I think in the right hands, it could be a great one. However, it costs millions of dollars to make a movie. Someone in the film industry–a producer or influential director–would need to become aware of the story and want to turn it into a film, then they would have to line up financial backing, before the process could even be contemplated. So far, that obviously has not happened.

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      • Hi Mr. Roberts. I am a twelve year old boy named Jackson, I have loved all of your books. I suggested to my father, who is a writer and producer, that he should turn them into a series of movies! I cant wait to read the next book. Thank you for being the extraordinary author that you are. Best wishes on your next book.
        Jackson

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  4. Hello Judson

    I love historical fiction and I came across your books on Amazon by chance and have read them all in a matter of three weeks. You are an amazing storyteller and I am very impressed with the detail of description you give in your tale. It’s like your an expert tracker, archer or warrior yourself. This makes your books high quality reading material and I think the Strongbow story makes for an awesome movie!!

    I hope you won’t take too terribly long with the fourth book, because I read all five of Martin’s Game of Thrones books (and about six thousand pages worth) and he’s not even half way way through the story and it looks like it’ll be a decade before he finishes them. Who will remember (or care) by then???

    One more recommendation for people while they wait, oldie but goodie: The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet.

    Kudos to you, sir!

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    • Thanks, Maria. As my most recent post below in this thread explains, I’m planning on getting book 4 out this year.

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  5. Judson,

    I am a little behind on your updates and I was wondering where The Beast of Dublin now fits into your plans? Have you decided to focus on Halfdan’s story instead or as well as? Only curious, and really looking forward to continuing Haldfan’s journey.

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    • Good question, Joann. After I finish book 4–and it’s currently chugging along quite well–I plan to complete The Beast of Dublin, because a character introduced in it, Conall, will play a role in book 5, the final book in the Strongbow Saga series. My tentative/hopeful long range schedule is to get book 4, The Long Hunt, out this year, The Beast of Dublin out in 2014, and book 5 out in 2015 or 2016.

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  6. Hi! I just love these books to pieces. I love how it’s in first person and how easy it is to connect to the characters in the story. Great work. And after the preview for the 4th book, I really can’t wait for it to come out. So many questions left unanswered, will Halfdan and Genevieve get back together, what role will his sister play in his life as a Viking warrior, how will he treat the woman that married his father? And I’m just awed by mr. Roberts passion, to not only tell a story but to tell a story based on facts and not a stereotype. Thank you so much for bringing me a piece of my heritage to me.

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  7. Hey Mr. Roberts, so I’ve really been looking online and can’t find a projected date for the release of book 4. I really appreciate the preview of “The Long Hunt” (sorta a tease though) I found some down time between my studies at college and started reading your books again and I had forgotten how good they are! I was just wondering if you had a projected release date is all? thanks!

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    • I can’t provide a date yet, because book 4 is not finished. However, it’s progressing steadily–though never as quickly as I’d like–so I believe it’s still on track to come out this year. Just keep watching this site for announcements (and you can subscribe, on the home page, to receive my posts there automatically).

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  9. I have a question about the 4th book and how it will begin. I am in fact not asking for the first chapter because I have already noticed that you have posted a free preview, however, my question is since the last book came out 4 years ago, will there be a prologue at the beginning of the 4th book so that we can catch up with the series since the last time I read these fantastic books was in high school and I am now a college student? Thank you for writing such detailed and inspiring novels, I appreciate your work.

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    • That is an interesting question and idea, Chase. However, there will not be any kind of prologue in book 4. In future years, after the series is complete, it would not make sense to have one, although I can understand your point about wanting to catch up quickly given that it has been so long since book 3 was published. I will keep your idea in mind, and will consider putting some kind of short summary of the story to date on my website, when book 4 is released. Thank you.

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  10. Nice to hear your book is coming along! I was watching the new Viking TV series on the History Channel and was delighted to discover the main character is Ragnar. I hope this connection will drum up more interest in your books. I can’t wait to read the rest of Halfdan’s story.

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