Hey.

I'm not dead, just up to my eyeballs in Caine's carnival of whipass.

There are a lot of comments I haven't responded to — not to mention fifteen or twenty emails — and I apologize for the inattention.

As many of you will recall, writing Caine consumes all available brainpower, and I've been hitting it extra hard, because my available brainpower ain't what it used to be, and I wanted to deliver this book three months ago.

I'll be my usual congenially cranky self after I'm done.

Till then . ...