SFR:
What procedures do you use to plot and write a segment of the Prescot saga? What is your daily schedule?

HKB:
DP is somewhat different from other stories in that the plotting is done for some long way a-head and I concentrate on highlighting those parts of most interest. A great deal of research has to be done. I find the best procedure is to write. After that the finalizing is based on a solid foundation. In the career of a writer there is no substitute for writing. If the day is not spent on. research or anything else that takes me away from the desk I start soon after 9 and break for an hour or hour-and-a-half for lunch, then do on until a number of devices halt me. These may be children, an appointment, in household chores, TV, or sheer exhaustion. I try to sleep and not work at night times. It is all very humdrum, really; the colour is in the words, or, at, least, it ought to be.

SFR:
Will Akers write another series after the Prescot saga is finished? Any solid plans?

HKB:
Nothing solid as yet. There is so much I have to do with Prescot that, assuming all goes well, the story will not end yet. It is planned out to the end of the Vallian Cycle, and the one after that is also firmed up to the point where it can be begun. By that time the various strands woven into the development will begin to intersect on an accelerating scale. For all the success of the series I own. I am not satisfied with much that I have done (only an idiot believes he has written a perfect book] and I am not foolish enough to try to put everything into the story- but. Kregen as a place is real enough for me to want to make it come alive, and it is big enough to contain many stories, some not necessarily involving Dray Prescot, although that may be a trap, also. There is an end to the story --- or plot construction very near the end ---some of which has been hinted at already; but it is my belief that reader and writer alike will share many more adventures before we get there. After that? Yes, I would hope to create something fresh.

SFR:
Do you envision (or does a publisher have plans for) the publication of the entire Prescot saga in one huge volume? Might this series run up to a million words?