Renegade13 wrote:I think that the main problem is that RFC's writing schedule is pretty full at the moment. He has a lot of other projects than just the Empire of Man series (and that is one that I don't think that has a specific publishing point yet); hopefully he will be able to find some time and motivation soon to work on #5. We just have to patient. Believe me, I want the next book as much as you do, but we just have to chill out and relax for a while. I'm sure that the end result will be well worth the wait!
The holdup is that I haven't seen the file in question.
I'm not sure what happened. I do have one from him to me and Toni both discussing plot points, but that's the last one I received. I've looked in my junk mail folders just in case the spam trap ate it, but it's not there, either. I've just sent him an e-mail telling him I don't have it, since I now know I was supposed to have it, but the fact that I didn't know it was coming kept me from telling him it hadn't come when it didn't, if you follow my meaning.
Now, at this particular moment I'd be way too busy to do something with it immediately, anyway, but I promise we'd be a lot farther down the road if I'd known he'd gotten the opening section written!