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vii viii Robert Asprin mands for "the next Myth book," with each reader being sure the books were in existence somewhere because of the schedule I had so foolishly "com- mitted to" in that introduction. To belabor the obvious, 1 haven't been able to write at the speed I anticipated at the time. While the popularity of the series and the loyalty of its readers is both gratifying and profitable, any pub- lisher can tell you that trying to get a book out of an author when "it isn't happening" is like push- ing on a rope. You see, when I made my writing "guesstimate," I had just finished writing MIL, and the speed with which the prose goes onto the page when I'm closing on the end of a book was still fresh in my mind. That is, when it's flowing, it flows very fast. What I had overlooked was the months of outlining and false starts that go on