Remember when I left my backpack in Ottawa? I had the hotel FedEx it to the US, where it promptly got stuck in Customs. Even in the best of times, my [Red Tape] skill is pitiful, and Customs has a high challenge rating. Five rounds of paperwork and three weeks later, I finally recovered my backpack. I had unpublished chapters in there, some of which I had to rewrite, and sketches. One of my discoveries was a sketch I had forgotten, for an illustration of Erstdwerg for vol2.
Per usual, someone who can actually draw has ahold of these now. We'll see what he makes of them.
On the Alchemist front, I'm drafting the last several chapters. Hopefully, I'll be able to roll into book five before all of book four is published, without pausing subscriptions. We'll see how it goes.
My current writing schedule is four to five chapters per week, a day for editing and scheduling posts, and a day off for the gaming group I GM. Soon, I will have enough backlog for the inevitable post-new-year illness.
The holidays are upon us, so be careful out there and remember to pace yourselves.