Firstly, the music in my previous post about multimedia is now properly linked, so please go have a listen here.

Secondly, and remarkably, Empire in Black and Gold made it into the Amazon "Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2008" here. I have no idea how this is compiled or what it's based on, but I feel somewhat overawed by the company. Tolkien, on the other hand, is probably turning in his grave (1).

Anyway, enough about me.

(1) which would make an interesting "powered by" annotation for any website