First, I want to tell an exciting story in such a way that teaches something. I never started out thinking I would write a trilogy. However, the more I learned about WWI the more interested I became. After Over Here, I wanted to continue the story and the events of 1919 provided great material for So Beware. After covering 1915-16 with one book and 1919 with another, something was missing: America’s 1918 battlefield experience. So, Send the Word was born.