I'm curious: Steve - how often and extensively do you re-read your books when you are preparing for or writing a sequel? Do you take notes about pieces that you figure are important to this book, or are you just re-creating the environment you want to be in while writing the new book? ================================ Everybody - how often or extensively do you re-read these (or other series), when preparing for an announced sequel? And "how extensively" might in this case include Vlad books only for a Vlad book, Or for Sethra Lavod, the two previous books in that series - or the 4 previous books - or all of the Dragaerian books, except Brokedown Palace, or all Dragaerian books at all? Have you ever stopped in the middle of a book, and pulled out a previous book to re-read a piece or all of it? -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/