I. Do. Not. Care. For. Zuck's. Ethics.
And I was disturbed, MIGHTILY, when some sweet well meaning person POSTED MY BIRTHDAY on there. NOT sweet at all, handing out personal info to the great global world at large.
However, Annette, yes, I probably should bust my boycott for this.
There USED TO BE a FaceBook fan page for the series - it was largely neglected by readership, but it probably still exists. (The Zuck deletes nothing).
Also: please, anyone who's registered with SFF Chronicle, you could update the page there.
Anybody active in a forum anywhere could do ditto.
I have been buried writing. on YES, Song of the Mysteries…and doing a whole ton of heavy lifting with back history connections to be SURE my scrap notes, damn them, over forty some years, were to some degree consistent.
The layers underlying this series would confound and astonish you - you have NO idea - when a small, satellite short like Black Bargain gets written, I have to IN DEPTH track the timeline for about fifty years OR MORE on both sides, about a hundred year arc that encompasses the past trends and the future impacts…jerk on one thread, the whole dang web quivers.
I could have added enormously to the FAQ and the WIKI material, but haven't because: unscrupulous persons took that material and PUBLISHED IT in compendiums/without my permission. So, sigh, anything I don't register copyright/publish first, they just 'take.'
The pre internet world was kinder, in many ways, because when stuff like this happened, I didn't see it…
Office Max made a small fortune off me in graph paper and MORE, and MORE file cards. Color coded.
Here's your teaser from the rumbling depths of the iceberg you may or may never see: Westland Sea was called that - Why?
Oh, and Grimwards: nobody's asked why 18 are 'listed at Althain' but check out the number that appear on the Paravia map?
If this series ever busts out, you are going to get a whole trove of stuff you had NO IDEA (though some will emerge in Song)…if it doesn't, some university will be asked to cache the canon notes so they are not lost. It's a lifetime's worth.
Oh, and yes: the massive organizing of back notes will make satellite short material MUCH easier to do in the future.
So much to go…and the page count of Song is rising, daily. Do you folks want to know when my reading is scheduled at DragonCon? Anybody going? I will have the originals for the new covers in the art show.