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I have been out of touch lately. Deliberately so.

For the last couple of months, I've been fleeing Tacoma from Thursday to Sunday, to hide out in my Fortress of Solitude (sometimes known as our pocket farm near Roy) .  I leave the Internet mostly behind on my marginal feed down there, and I focus on writing. 

It really works.

Tonight I finally sent of the rewrites of what has become volume four of The Rain Wild Chronicles.  It was a massive rewrite and I actually feel very gratefulfor the opportunity to greatly improve the book.  It is planned that volumes 3 and 4 of the Chronicles will both come out in 2012 in the US, UK, Australia and the Netherlands.

So. What's next?  Well, jump right onto the next writing project, of course!

And start planning for the Great Cross Country Expedition to Renovation!

I am sure Reno and Worldcon will never be the same!