One of the very best things about the Vlad novels is how the publishing timeline is not linear to the story timeline. For example, Jhereg comes out, then Yendi comes out, covering a time period before Jhereg, then Teckla comes out, covering the time after Jhereg. And so on. I'm not aware of any other sci fi or fantasy series doing this and it's one of the main attractions of the stories. Steve- How much of this did you plan? Do you expect to do this for the full cycle, assuming you get to writing all of the Vlad books? (no, not a baseball reference. I'm a soccer fan who's not sleeping much these days. Go USA!) Thanks! Joe Lynch p.s. And as for list volume- try the digest option if you haven't noticed it before...I quickly switched after getting 50 emails in one day. :)