Over the last week I re-read Blessings Of A Curse and The Fire And The Storm in preparation for writing Chaos Of A Demon War (I only got a bit of it done in the months after tF&tS came out before I found myself concentrating on Victory Or Extinction.)
First off, I miss as much sleep when I'm reading them as anyone else, especially since I haven't read them in two years. I really find myself wondering; Wow! How did I come up with all that stuff?! And I worry about whether I'll be able to match their quality in the third book. I wrote The Fire And The Storm when my life was hell, and I was surprised to find that it didn't really have a dark mood to it.
And secondly, I've proof-read Blessings at least a dozen times and had it proof-read by eight other sharp-eyed nit pickers, and I still found at least 25 typos, dammit! I think I've found them all now though, lol! There were a lot less in tF&tS. I've definitely become a better proof-reader over the last 13 years. I'll have the re-proofed versions out on the retail sites in the next few days sometime.