The next month, March, will see the appearance of the second volume of the Grantville Gazette, in a hardcover edition, with a new story by me that wasn't in the electronic edition.

Then, in May, we're coming out with a new title in the 1632 series called 1634: The Ram Rebellion. This book is a little hard to describe. It's something of a cross between a novel and an anthology. There are several stories by several authors, but all of them are connected and are related to a single story line. The two main authors are myself and Virginia DeMarce, and the centerpiece of the volume - probably close to half of it - will be a short novel co-authored by us entitled (what else?) The Ram Rebellion.

After that, I don't know. There are quite a few things in the works. The most immediate, obviously, is 1634: The Baltic War. In addition, Dave Freer has finished and turned over to me the first draft of a new novel we're collaborating on called Slow Train to Arcturus. I expect to get that finished sometime in the middle of the year. I'll also, sometime before the end of the year, finish the third volume in the Joe's World series, A Desperate and Despicable Dwarf. And, of course, once The Baltic War is finished, Virginia and I will be able to wrap up 1634: The Bavarian Crisis very quickly.

Finally, over the summer, I'll be writing the sequel to The Rivers of War and I believe that'll come out sometime by the end of next year.

CO: Where can we find more information on you and your works?

EF: My own web site: www.ericflint.net. Fair warning, though: I haven't updated the site in over half a year and won't be able to for another few weeks, until I get The Dance of Time finished.

CO: Anything you'd like to say to your readers?

EF: Yes. I want to urge anyone, especially anyone who has been following the Heirs of Alexandria series I've been doing with Misty Lackey and Dave Freer - the first two books of which are The Shadow of the Lion and This Rough Magic - to buy Dave Freer's A Mankind Witch when it comes out this July. A Mankind Witch is an integral part of the whole series, not a "spin-off." (Chronologically, it takes place between The Shadow of the Lion and This Rough Magic, and follows the adventures of several main characters - Prince Manfred, Erik and Francesca - during the one-year interval between the two books.) Dave Freer is much less well known than either Misty or I, and has mostly gotten published as a co-author for one or both of us, but he's an excellent writer in his own right. Hopefully, A Mankind Witch will get him solidly established as an independent writer. He well deserves it, and the book is a very good one.