When you read a book with made-up names it can be difficult to know how to pronounce them. For that reason, a new feature is rolling out across the site: audio clips!

Appearing now in the Main Characters, Secondary Characters, and Societies sections, as well as on the Many Worlds page, these little clips tell you how the names are pronounced... at least, as they are in RCV's head. They will soon be available for All Other Characters as well.

In the run-up to the delayed release of From Shattered Stars, many of you will no doubt be planning to re-read the first three books of the series. If you're reading on Kindle, or using the Kindle app on another device, then before you start you may wish to update to the latest versions.

Steal from the Devil and List of the Dead have only minor changes, however The Ravening Deep has some corrections which put right a very silly mistake that slipped into the battle for Ramm Stallahad.

During that fight, Admiral Betombe and his task force use their wormhole generators in a novel way, with the intention of making life difficult for the intruding Shaeld Hrathan fleet. The problem is... the way I originally wrote that scene, interdiction had already begun throughout the system. So all of the admiral's ships' GNGs should have stalled.

That sequence has now been fixed, and a number of other minor edits have been made to clarify sentences and paragraphs. The Books 1–3 Omnibus gets the same improvements, of course, as do the paperback versions. All volumes have also had their back matter updated to reflect the delayed release of FSS.

If you are uncertain about how to download the updated eBooks to your device, please refer to the final section of the FAQ page.

All the updates are now available for existing customers. You will know if you have the latest versions by checking the back matter — the release date given for From Shattered Stars will have changed to 2017.

The web site has been lavished with attention this week. In the past day, the following changes have gone live:

• Voice and Maber Castigon got their own character pages under the Main Characters category.
• Pages referencing them were linked (and some links to renamed pages were fixed too — please report any broken links).
• Biology notes were added to the Viskr and Shaeld Hratha pages.
• The Books section was reorganised so that novels, novellas, and the omnibus editions all come under their own sections.
• A section was added to the FAQ to assist those wanting to update their Kindle editions.
• Unnecessary duplicate headings were pruned throughout the site.
• Links to the new Facebook fan pages were added to the volume details for A Storm to the Savage, Forge Ruinous, and Books 1–3 Omnibus.
• And... shipping categories in the store were relabelled so that Canada is no longer referred to as being in the USA. Whoops.

See the post from the other day to read about the other changes made this week.