Q&A Curse of the Blood Fox Trilogy (Part One)

As the second book gets closer and closer to being completed, I'm finding it hard to focus on other things outside of the trilogy. (Though the procrastinator in me tries. Oh, does it try.) I'm sure you'd be much more interested in hearing some more about the series anyway, right? So I have collected questions (and added in my own cool tidbits) about Curse of the Blood Fox that you may have gathered reading the book... or maybe you missed completely.

Will there be spoilers? Um... maybe. I'...