This is sort of a general update on why there hasn't been an update.
:-)

There haven't been many changes to the website, including schedule and book schedule updates, because Tim is planning a major revision in the near future. The details of the revision are still being worked out, but that's why no major updates.

On general notes:

Some of the books which are in the pipeline are:

Claws that Catch: Sequel to Manxome Foe. Scheduled but I'm not sure for when.

Eye of the Storm: The next 'new/first' Mike O'Neal book which will reintroduce many of the characters from the earlier Aldenata books as well as some drawn from the Tom Kratman and Julie Cochrane collaborations. Done, waiting to be scheduled because it has to come after...

Honor of the Clan: The last of the Cally trilogy. The whole purpose of the cally books have been to set up the conditions of the universe that will reintroduce Mike. I'd intended to have him only be a cameo character in HotC with a big reintroduction in Eye, but he's turning out to be one of the main ones in HotC.

Tuloriad: With Tom Kratman. The story of Tulostenaloor after his escape from Earth and the spiritual journey of the Posleen who have figured out that maybe The Path of Fury isn't a long term survival trait. At least with Humans in the galaxy. Finished, unscheduled. (Not sure if this should come out before or after Eye of the Storm. It has spoilers either way.)

All other series' there's no definite word. My writing this year has been severely disrupted. I think I'm getting past that but I have six started novels and none that gelled. If I can get the muse kicked into gear I can probably finish any of them in fairly short order. (Two Ghost novels including a spin-off, two Special circumstances and two 'what are these?') There are indications that that may be the case lately, but I'm not promising anything. With four novels in the pipeline nobody should be complaining.

Other than that, not much to report except this:

Heh. People are asking if I'm some sort of Cassandra due to Last Centurion. No. I was just watching this building while everyone was screaming about 'global warming'. There's no mechanism noted in this article to explain the cause of the current cooling trend. Go read Centurion then go look at the sunspot record for last year vs the last century. Do'ah! Gosh, global cooling? You don't say! Really! How surprising!

Not.

Oh, by the way, NASA also recently predicted severe drops in sunspot (magnetosphere) activity due to a slowing to a virtual crawl of the magnetosphere racetrack. That's about twenty years out but movement is already minimal and dropping fast.

So drive those SUVs, people! We're gonna need the warmth!
:-)

I'm personally looking forward to it. You know how much I prefer cold.


Take care,


John