I'm in the last twenty-four hours of the housesit I've been doing for the past six months, a rural property on Vancouver Island, looking after some horses and a cat. Tomorrow we upstakes for a short-term gig on the mainland, then by the end of the month we'll be in Athens for the start of a three-month sit.

Underland Press, the publisher of the Luff Imbry novel, The Other, has been bought by another house, Skyhorse Press. They've asked if I want to do a sequel, or any other books I might have in mind. Once I get settled in Athens, I'm going to write up a proposal for a sequel to The Other and we'll see what happens.

I've got a major project in prospect, but I can't announce anything until I see what level of interest it may stir in a major publisher that I've approached. I can say that it ought to be big news within the community of Jack Vance fans.

In the meantime, I've been writing another novelette featuring the archetypal thief Raffalon, who was the protagonist of "Wearaway and Flambeau," a story that ran in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction last year.

Sales of my self-published ebooks haven't pushed me into betsellerdom (yet), but it's gratifying to see people take them up in an age when reprints are largely disdained by the industry. To those of you who have bought copies, I'd appreciate it if you could pester your friends and associates until they do the same.