Hello everyone! I am currently working away on The Rose and the Briar, sometimes loving it and other times thinking it is worthless drivel. You know, the usual writer mood swings! I’m sure that—with some help from my editor—it will turn out as fun as the first two by publication time. Meanwhile, I need to forge onward and keep my mind on the job. But . . . sometimes I need to research things on the Internet, like raintrees or pookas or cinder sprites (not even Wikipedia has m