On Friday, February 2nd 2007, I will send off the 3rd and final edition of my first novel, "Shadow of the Thunderbird". Without changing the story, I have filled in detail, corrected grammar and resolved any logical disconnects in adding nearly 40 pages to the manuscript. Unfortunately, financial matters and resuming a career took precedence and it has been very hard staring up again. The following Monday, I will resume applying the edits to the first edition of my third novel, "Wake of the Lake Monster". I expect this effort to take roughly a month, as the story is all but completed, already. I hope the span of time has not reduced the number and enthusiasm of my readers. I am so grateful to be in pursuit of my life's dream. It is my intention to follow up with two very well-known pen pals, and a well-connected agent to puch my books to a larger house. These are very good stories, if I do say so myself. I enjoy writing, but place alot of pressure on myself to do the research first. The quest for the origin and species of the Altamaha-ha is particularly engrossing. I owe alot to artist and sculptor extraordinaire Rick Spears, whose vision resulted in the creation of what I feel to be the look and scale of the most famous Southern aquatic cryptid. I will be putting more about that journey on the Research page of dltanner.com, and I would invite you to explore the study with me. "Wake" is an incredible story, as Ian McQuade comes full circle in his search for animals out of place and time. In "Shadow of the Thunderbird", he is an anthropologist. In "Track of the Bigfoot", a chance encounter with a creature from his youth makes him the cryptozoologist he always wanted to be, an honorary title more important than any granted by his many degrees. In "Wake of the Lake Monster", the story spans centuries, continents, myths, legends, treasures and secret societies. To my knowledge, never before in a cryptofiction novel has so many disparate elements been brought together as the Foundation struggles for its very survival against an enemy which has long plotted its downfall. Ian is reunited with Alma, but neither is who they were when they first met. McQuade will come to her rescue, braving the fearsome creatures of the Nahanni Valley. This novel will end the arc of tales in "The Cryptids Trilogy", an epic labor of love that will have taken me five years to complete. I have already outlined the fourth of my novels, which will introduce a scenario unheard of in any cryptofiction novel. Unfortunately, I can't reveal many of the details here, but will do so as the project prgresses towards its Psirng, 2008 release. I was gone from the public eye nearly three years, after my radical theories on the nature of Bigfoot. In essence, I debunked that it could possibly be a Gigantopithecus, simply by applying the logic or science and anatomy. I will do the same for my lake monster, which I believe accounts for most creatures sighted of its kind. I will also endeavor to make it something it has never been depicted as before, as I was challenged to do by a reader. I thank you if you have continued to seek after news of me, or better yet, my next publication. I am sorry to have kept you waiting so long, and will make up for the long delay with a number of projects you're sure to enjoy. I will soon put a contact form back on my site, and would thoroughly enjoy hearing from you. I hope you like the new DLTanner.com. The changes I made will allow me to better serve you as my reader, to get the most up to date information and cryptofiction goodies I can make available. So, enjoy and let me know what more I can do to help make this site a better visit for you! Until then, look for "Wake of the Lake Monster" in May 2007. D.L.