I spent most of September at the Ucross Foundation, a retreat for writers and artists near Sheridan, Wyoming. The above photo shows my studio. Ucross is probably my favorite such retreat - I've always managed to get a lot of work done the three times I've been there. There are usually only about 8-9 people at residence at a time, and the place is huge - a 20,000 acre ranch (which works out to about 2500 acres per person, not bad). Made some great new friends (pic below), ate delicious food prepared by Cindy, our chef, managed to make some good progress on a math book for non-mathematicians, which I worked on steadily.

But what about my novel? Well, here's how that went.

That's the German cover for "The Age of Shiva," released this fall in the German language edition as "Shiva." The publisher, Luchterhand, is the same who did "The Death of Vishnu" ("Vishnus Tod") some years back, which they've reissued in a nifty new cover, to go with the new "Shiva" design, see below. The translator is the same for both books, the wonderfully talented Anette Grube.