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Hello everyone. This post is an update. I am presently writing Walk in Shadow, the third Kharkanas novel. It's going well, if a bit slowly, as there's a lot of story to tell. Realistically, I expect to complete it by the autumn, certainly before Christmas. That's the plan, anyway. The second bit of news is a bit different. As many of you know, Broken Binding has released the first three novels in the MBotF series, and I'm told it's done well. The remaining seven are forthcoming. I provide signatures for these, as well as for Subterranean Press, and I have a signing service with a local independent bookstore (Munro's Books, Victoria, B.C. Canada). The latter two involve fairly limited signings. For Broken Binding, I ended up doing the first three books twice because of paper issues, and I have one more set to do for that. Here's the news: I've kind've ruined my right shoulder with these signings. The sheer volume's done it in. I've dealt with tendonitis in both shoulders for most of my adult life, as a consequence of competitive swimming (over)training in my teens, with fencing then added to the right shoulder (and a whole lotta trowling in pits on digs). While I use a gym twice a week, my trainer and I work around this chronic problem. Now, Broken Binding doesn't want me in pain as a consequence of signing many thousands of tip-in's for the upcoming books, and I appreciate that a lot. The upshot is, we're going to go to electronic-signing. I'm not yet sure what the details of that entail, but I'll let you know if you're interested. Anyway, it's a cold fact that the body wears out, and I've worked this one hard over the years. So, to conclude, my apologies. The Broken Binding editions are simply beautiful. I like to think that an e-signature to spare a failing shoulder won't change their value for those of you who buy them. Well, cheers for now. SE