Going out with a bang

It is done!  The last volume of the Apotheosis Trilogy, Messiah, has just wrapped up at 103K words. (About 3000 words over my mark, which means the final revised draft is going to be even longer.)  We have officially capped off the series I began back in 1993 with Forests of the Night.  A series that has run to ten novels now, three trilogies plus a single one off novel, that cover a time-span of half a millennium, and range from near-future noir thriller to apocalyptic transhumanist space...