Well what to say….
I am surprised, but also very honoured to receive this award.
First of all I would like to say thank you very much to coz1 for awarding me this award, I am honoured to get it from such a great writer as you.
Then I have to say thank you very much to all who have said congratulations. I am honoured and glad you enjoy the story. There are many great writers that have given me inspiration for this story, and many great fans that have given comments that have made me continue to write and enjoy writing, the comments are what keep the writers working. So thank you to you all!
The idea for the story actually came from the EUIII Collectors Edition competition, I noticed many people were writing about the cardinal in that story and it gave me some ideas. Also I have read and enjoyed the Three Musketeers and I have always been fascinated by the story.
So when EUIII arrived I thought that it could be very nice to write a story about France in the 1600s, with both the Huguenot wars and the Thirty Years War as a background. And I thought one can’t write such a story without having Cardinal Richelieu in the story… At first I had only planned to have him as a secondary character playing a role in the background, but as the story developed I guess you can say that the cardinal is not a man to stay in the background, and as I found that I really enjoyed writing about him he started to play a more important role, and for all you Richelieu fans out there not to worry I can promise he will continue in the story and we shall soon see more from him…
Again I would like to say thank you very much to everyone