Questions? Mysteries? Loose Ends?

In answer to a few questions:

1) Yes, I'm related to the A.S. Peterson who wrote the swashbuckling adventure tale The Fiddler's Gun. He's my brother. He started his two-book epic Fin's Revolution (which concludes this December in Fiddler's Green) right about the same time I started On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness. He's three years older than me, and in a bout of brotherly competition we challenged each other to finally get around to writing that book we'd always talked about writing...