I plan to make you all exceedlingly jealous by teasing you with the fact that I received this week the manuscript to edit for volume 6 of Chris Stewart's "last days" series, The Great and Terrible. If you have not encountered this series yet, you are really missing out. Picture Tom Clancy meets Work and the Glory. Because Chris Stewart spent years as a pilot in the Air Force, he really knows military details that just make his books SO plausible (kind of like Clancy, but not quite so technical). And because he is such a committed Latter-day Saint, he brings a knowledge of the gospel to the story that reminds us the battles we wage are a continuation of a conflict that is older than time itself.

I liked the books from the start (the writing is incredibly gripping), but the one that really got me was volume 3, in which a scenario is painted that is so believable that I felt for the first time how quickly the last days could really be upon us. And then, what happens in volume 4 gave me a testimony of the principle of food storage that no number of stake conference meetings on the subject had ever managed to touch. I'm not kidding. It sounds goofy, I know, but you just have to read it to see.

Anyway, if you're already a fan, you'll be delighted to know that volume 6, which is the final volume in the series, will be hitting the shelves in October, fairly close on the heels of volume 5, which came out earlier this month. If you haven't read the books yet, now's the time, because you won't have to wait forever for the whole series to be available. What a fun thing to catch up on this summer!

Meanwhile, if you're just drooling to know what happens in volume 6, I may drop a hint from time to time. THIS is one of the reasons I LOVE MY JOB!