OK I've been quiet...
...and i'll be baaaaack, I promise... but in the meantime you can go read, for example, the new post at SFNovelists blog (comment here or there, if you feel so moved to do...) and I can also report that I've been working on thefinal Worldweavers book, and I am really liking how this animal is shaping (except for the way that it is coming to me, in jigsaw-piece-sized oddly shaped bits and pieces, and yes, there is a story here - even a GREAT story - but I'm literally having to piece it together like a quilt as I go along... It'll be worth it. Promise. You just have to wait a LITTLE longer...