Some years back, I made a deal with the excellent UK small press PS Publishing for a series of three novellas featuring my corpulent, far-future master thief and forger, Luff Imbry.
The first two, Quartet & Triptych and The Yellow Cabochon, appeared in 2010 and 2012 respectively. The third, Of Whimsies and Noubles, was turned in in the fall of 2011 and should have appeared sometime in 2013.
But it didn't. It now turns out that a computer crash eliminated the manuscript, the contract, and all emails relating to the third novella. However, order has now been restored, I have sent another copy of the ms to PS, and the little book will be published in two collectible editions in September of this year.
The original deal also called for all three novellas to be published in an omnibus edition. That, too, will happen, sometime after Of Whimsies and Noubles has sold through.