Hello everyone!
First off, let me say again that I'm sorry about the double mixup on Friday. Wrong chapter, wrong setting! Hopefully, that will not happen again.
Second, the Chapter 16 that posts tomorrow will not be the same as the previous Chapter 16. There are no major differences, but quite a few technical errors have been fixed and a few conversations just slightly tweaked. You may or may not notice the differences in a reread.
Several people asked about a bonus chapter, particularly because Chapter 16 won't be new to some people on Monday. Unfortunately (though also fortunately) I had quite a lot of travel in mid September and late September to early October (over two and a half weeks away). I was unable to write at the pace that I usually write while traveling (I tend to always think I'll write on planes and in hotel rooms and so forth, but it seldom works out).
On top of that, October is my little-sleep month due to a heavy volunteer schedule. That's further slowed writing down.
All of this is to say that the 'buffer' between the chapter that's posting and the one I'm writing is at its lowest level in the last year and a half. I really need that buffer, as I often realize that some topic got short shrift a number of chapters ago and want to go fix it.
Until my buffer is back to where I'd like it, I wouldn't feel right about putting out a bonus chapter. It would be a risk to the quality of subsequent chapters and/or to my posting schedule.
Bigger-picture comment: As I said in the comments, VoaT will never simply end as an unannounced 'The End' chapter. There'll be a blog and so forth.
If something were to happen to me unexpectedly, there would just be an abrupt end to posting, and then I would hope that my editors would post all of the chapters they had in hand. I've considered the possibility of writing (and maintaining) a 'wrap-up' as a just-in-case-of-disaster ending, and I may do that. But, if I was able to post at all, it wouldn't just be ending out a 'The End' chapter with no explanation.
Thank you to all of you for reading!