On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Steven Brust wrote: >At 04:51 AM 12/4/2002 -0600, you wrote: >>On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 10:34:00PM -0600, Matthew Hunter >><matthew at infodancer.org> wrote: >> > Tue Dec 3 22:33:37 CST 2002: Mark. >>Wed Dec 4 04:25:10 CST 2002: Complete. >> >>Spoilers to follow. The author is invited to stop reading now, >>and start writing the next volume instead. > >The next volume, and the third, were completed before the first was >delivered. > So? Write something else. You still have [counts on fingers] *ten* Vlad books to go, and you still haven't even told us what a jhegaala looks like. Or you could take a break from the Dragaera books. Maybe write something about epistemology, metaphysics and the development of religion and personal belief systems. You could use the past 1000+ messages as research. :-)