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Oh, and use the reply-to-review.  Makes the reviews feel loved.

You said nice things on your last review reply.  Let me remind you that I Really Believe in your story.  And you are a prince for putting up with all the ideas I hurl over the ramparts at your work.

This book shakes and shocks us, half a century after its first version was published.  But today's obsession with opening In Media Res would rule out this engaging, fascinating opening, surely in the top 100 of all English Language novels.

Is the James Bond style of In Media Res progress, or just fashion?  Is it, perhaps, a crutch for writers who have no other interesting opening?

'Child' here means the young girl we saw in the shadowbook?
So AM is potentially far more powerful--and dangerous--than either Saundon or Behira?  I can imagine them getting the willies.
And when Jaylene learns who AM is behind the mask ... does she really learn? .... why isn't she cringing  Character evolution here?

Don't worry about short-term blips.  Worry about the long-term effect of business policies and international actors like the little-lamented OPEC.

Some years ago my mother was in a monster tizzy because a rather large bond my father had bought (to help provide for retirement) had lost about half its value over the course of a month.  I looked at it and tried not to laugh.  It was a zero-coupon bond from some reasonably sound company, with a 20-year maturity.  Zero coupon bonds take those swings in resonse to small interest rate changes.  It took a while to almost convince her that swings like that don't reflect the company's soundness, or affect the bond's value at maturity.

Ouch, Dirk.  Two percent is a killer.

If it's tax-protected, you don't need to worry about buy-and-hold.  You just need to worry about returns and expenses.

Even in Canada, you need to worry about changes in currency valuations.

If you're still investing in Vanguard, you might look at their just-barely-junk High-Yield Bond fund.  It acts like a mix of bond and stock.

Owa Taboo Biam, to quote Oscar Madison.

The Horror bits are gems.  Kat has been studying gem magic from Faulter's private library.

Connection?  Eeek.  Ulp.  Oop   Errrg.  YAAaaaaaaahhh!!!

Take this offline if you want: what drove AM to become what she is?

Sorry.  I'm a bit slow to see the obvious.

The downsides are that people don't get annoucements of new/revised work, and people don't get points for reviews.

It also doesn't alert people that there's new material up for review.

What we have here is what macPhee would have called a phatic hiatus.

Understatement of the decade!  How can a guy be competent if he cannot plan?  How can he plan if the people he is supposed to trust implicitly--and impress with his competence--systematically undermine him in what shoukd be their best moments together?

Okay.  Now let's find out how the ladies see this.  That is, if they're willing to open up about it.  (Dangerous words, indeed.)