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Happy ANZAC Day to all our Australian and New Zealand readers.

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ANZACs Ending

Now this is an interesting review of ANZACs:

I really enjoyed this book and it is a great follow on story to compliment the other books in this series, but it ended too abruptly and it felt as if the author just got tired of writing and hurried and wrapped it up. Not to go into too much detail and give out any spoilers, but a military force is being hampered along different fronts and all of a sudden the battle is over and everything is right in the world, or I should say that portion of the world. What? More could of been written and I just don't see that battle ending like someone turned off a light switch.

We think ANZACs is the weakest book in the series. When we began we had a vague sense  that the ANZACs were going to take Hanoi. The more we wrote the more we learned and that simply was not possible. We recall toying with the idea of an Aussie SAS raid on Hanoi but...well, you'll see.

In a sense ANZACs does sort of just end. The scene where the Kiwis are defending Cam Rahn Bay works the best. 'They stubbornly refuse to lose' as one reviewer said.

As we've noted elsewhere, ANZACs, while disappointing from a literary sense, god I wish Ed where here to mock me on that one, the book accomplished its overall mission which was break into the Australian market.

World War 1990: Operation Pacific Storm

We are up to our necks writing about the Australians around Haiphong. The chapter keeps expanding. This is a good thing, it is natural and organic and the best sign one can get. This kind of expansion means you are writing about what you should be writing about.

We've got a reinforced division ashore. In this universe HMAS Melbourne was never scapped, so she's launching Skyhawk strikes, Aussie F-18s and F-111s out of Clark and Singapore. All good fun.

Because Pacific Storm seems to be turning into the story of the ANZACs, we haven't  yet done much about the Kiwis at Cam Ranh Bay, we are considering striking the Japanese potions and moving them into the Final Storm. This allows us to concentrate and further develop the ANZACs. It also gives us a great title. World War 1990: ANZACs.

Nothing is set in stone. But this is the plan.