Knights Templar. Why I Am Writing this Book

After writing two books on business management, one non-fiction history book, one self-help, one alternative medicine and twelve fiction books (with one more waiting to be assembled from completed pieces), I firmly decided to stick to writing non-fiction history books… pretty much for the rest of my life (I am 58).

My training and experience in knowledge management allows me to write quality books on just about any topic in history, so I put together a list of 87 books that I intend to write (ultimately, it will be about 100 or so).

Every book will be written in “blog format” – any topic in X facts, where X can be anywhere from 100 to 1,000. Each fact will be up to 2,500 words long and will tell a separate story. A collection of facts (sections) will tell the story of a chapter and a collection of chapters will tell the story of a book.

I chose “Knights Templar in 250 facts” (actual number of facts will most likely be different) as a pilot project for a number of reasons. First, the story of (in)famous Knights Templar is very popular and such book will inevitably be in high demand.

The latter is true (I consider my book to be the best book on Templars in existence) because none of the books in existence is sufficiently comprehensive and easy to read (the ones that are easy are, well, fiction – even if they pretend not to be).

Worse, none of the theories about Knights Templar explain all the facts in a fascinating and highly mysterious story (drama, actually) of that military-religious-financial-business organization – absolutely unique in human history (they leave the reader with far more questions than answers). And none is written in an easy-to-read (and digest) “blog format”.

My book will be free of all these deficiencies and thus become highly valuable to its readers in terms of both functional (information and knowledge) and emotional value. So, I am firmly convinced that it will become a global bestseller and will be made into TV series – both fiction and non-fiction. Hopefully, it will get an award or two (or even more – who knows).

And, finally, every writer (of fiction and non-fiction) always writes the book that he/she wants to read but can not find – and I am no exception. I was fascinated with the Templar story from the age of ten… and finally got the chance to solve this mystery once in for all.

And that’s exactly what I will do in this book.