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Book 5 is now complete. Most of you know what that means: bonus story updates! I'll probably be doing those for at least the next week, then starting on Book 6, which will hopefully address some things that got a bit pushed to the side in Book 5 when they started getting worried about Edie.

Chapter 22 is up now. There must be something wrong with the website software, since it's not publishing chapters on schedule. I'll contact the webmistress.

Chapter 21 is up now, and this time the lateness is not my fault! I scheduled it like I usually do, so that it would go up around midnight, but for some reason it never did. The site might be having issues.

Apparently I failed to post Chapter 20 last night. It's up now. But I guess no one had noticed anyway :-P

Monday's chapter, Chapter 59, is the last one in Book 4. The next few updates (hopefully) will be bonus stories, while I work on outlining Book 5. I don't know how many bonus stories I'll manage to get done, but I'll hopefully do at least two!

I've been having weird issues with the points, which is why they're still not all correct. Hopefully I'll be able to reset the points and then give everyone back what they're supposed to have.

MystycalMage, mjkj, FlowerGirl, and Catalyst: would you, when you get a chance, go look at your detailed points page ("my points" under your username on the sidebar) and tell me what you see as your points total for each category (uncategorized, fairy gold, and dead leaves)? Hopefully you see the same thing as me, but I want to confirm that...

Okay, the new points system is officially in place! Please take a few minutes to read the shiny new points page--there's information there that hasn't been mentioned before.

Also, I'll be fiddling with the points over the weekend--switching points from "uncategorized" to the proper categories, which is going to involve taking points away and then adding them back. So if you look at the site and discover you have the wrong amount of points, don't be alarmed! They'll be back!

How to earn points
Categories of points
How to spend points
List of points rewards owed

How to Earn Points
You must be a registered member of the website to earn points. (If you try to register and have trouble, please email me at chatoyant.college at gmail.com--I'll get you set up.)

I'm thinking about changing the way points rewards work. Basically, the main change I'd like to make is switching it from what we have now, in which you accumulate points, to a system in which you spend points. So instead of building up lots of points and using milestones for rewards, you would use points to get rewards and then not have those points anymore. Having a lot of points wouldn't mean much except that you don't make requests.

The third of my guest poems is now available at Gabriel Gadfly's site: The Knitter.