I *believe* that Jim was to finish the first Spires book around March, then pick up work on the next DF book. It looks like trips + illness + tooth problems contributed to part of the delay. Now I hear (via Twitter) the Spires book is 700 pages. Does anyone know the real timeline of what happened? I'm inclined to believe that he had delays/obligations *and* the book ended up being bigger than he'd originally planned, but I've known my gut to be wrong in the past.