I did the beta edits for the first three chapters of Trials. I know that doesn’t sound like much, but it was probably the majority of the work, because a lot of the questions were about background—how is the station laid out? what do the Snake Boys look like? where do the Portal Aliens live? why is Creepy the former Host messiah?—which is great, because obviously I’m super-familiar with all of that, but anyone who hasn’t read the two earlier books, like, VERY recently isn’t going to be.

There was also an objection to the specific manner in which two of the human characters insulted each other that I really liked, because I’d been feeling like Trang’s being multi-lingual had been sort of dropped in this book, so now they are insulting each other in French. Which always makes me happy.