I'm still alive. . .

The blog's been falling by the wayside a little while I work on the climax of the Apotheosis Trilogy.  It's a little hard to shift gears for me after spending thousands of words destroying the universe I've been building for the past fifteen years.  To say all hell's breaking loose is a bit of an understatement. . .   All this, and I have to do a credible wrap-up to a universe spanning ten books.  Not easy.

Oh, and I do have planned another callback to the first trilogy, beyond Nickolai's...