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 ■Author's Note:

/ am not a fast writer,
I am not a slow writer,
I am a half fast writer!
R. L. ASPRIN

THE FAN MAIL I've received has been pretty much
split on the subject of my last Introduction; some
found it interesting and insightful, while others
thought it was boring and a waste. If you are of the
latter group, please feel free to jump ahead directly
into the story, since there is nothing in this mes-
sage you need to know to understand (and, hope-
fully, enjoy) the book.

For the rest of you, this note is mostly an
apology ... or, more accurately, a string of apol-
ogies.

Back in M. Y. T.H. Inc. Link, I optimistically stated
that I would be trying to write two Myth episodes
a year . . . and things have not been the same
since. I, my publishers, and many bookstores and
dealers have been flooded with queries and de-

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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