OF ALL THE BOOKS I have written, I think I learned the most by writing this one. What I mean is this: First, I didn't choose Tyndale. This project came at me by stealth. When I got the deal with Thomas Nelson to do a biography on King James, 

the publisher wanted a second book. Since MAJESTIE was about King James and his great bible, I thought it only logical to do a twin biography on English bible translators John Wycliffe and William Tyndale. I had read about these men in my research, but it wasn't until I did a closer read of Tyndale that I became totally smitten with the man, and at significant levels of my understanding. I asked the publisher if I could abandon the twin biography and do a singular work on the life and work of William Tyndale. They agreed. And I am grateful. The voice in MAJESTIE was lighter, more animated, like the times it reflected, the late Elizabethan early Jacobean age, the age of Shakespeare, Walter Raleigh, Sir John Falstaff, Bottom the Weaver, and others. I attempted to write TYNDALE with the same or similar voice. It didn't work.