Finished my most recent edit of book 5 of "The Demonata" this afternoon. Although the first 4 books are designed to stand alone, books 5 and 6 are a 2 part story -- so I get to end book 5 with a HUGE cliffhanger!!! I love cliffhangers, which is why I wove so many of them into "The Saga of Darren Shan". There aren't so many outright cliffhangers in the new series, but the one in book 5 is a classic -- one of my favourite cliffhangers out of all the ones I've written!!!!! I can't wait to hit readers with it, though I guess I'll have to -- the book won't be published in the UK until May 2007!!!!!