Update

OK, a quick update on what I'm working on at present. I have a few more photos to locate and some minor text revision yet to do on Eight-Legged Marvels: Beauty and Design in the World of Spiders. Hope to have that complete by Christmas.

Boss Snakes (on cryptozoological stories of giant snakes in North America) will probably be done by end of month, ready to send to printer. I've finished my digging for historical accounts, just have to piece it all together. Have several points to make (primary is that there is no single unknown snake species responsible for sightings all across North America), and it should offer a fair bit of new data for investigators. I think most past discussions of giant snakes noted maybe 30 or so big snake stories, and half of those were of irrelevant "lake monster" sightings that have nothing to do with true snakes. I'll have 225+ (rough count) sightings and stories of big snakes, not counting a good number of obvious hoaxes and tall tales.

I think after Boss Snakes, I'll be working on Varmints, another collection of historical mystery animal accounts, but focusing on canine-like, feline-like, and similar mammalian enigmas in North America.