Well…14 months, 107,000 words and 900 endnotes and I have finished my narrative, non-fiction book on Arctic exploration, aviation and political skulduggery in the 1920s ft Amundsen, Umberto Nobile, Benito Mussolini and many others! It was supposed to be only 70,000. I finally sent off the manuscript to Custom House on February 15th, my birthday! Custom House is an imprint of Harper Collins.