Hi Michelle, this isn't a question, but a sincere thank you. I read COAD for the first time as a nine-year-old, and while I'd always loved playing in the woods and had an interest in bushcraft (and wolves!), your series got me truly obsessed. In large part because of your books, I have learned over the last 15 years as many ancestral skills and primitive technologies as I can get my hands on. I now brain tan deer hides, knap flint, practice archery, build friction fires, and practice many other methods Torak and Renn would have used. It kicked off my wolf obsession, which led me to volunteer at Mission:Wolf in Westcliffe, Colorado, a captive bred wolf sanctuary very similar to its Berkshire cousin. I would write my undergraduate thesis on wolf reintroduction in the American West, and interned at University College Dublin's Center for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture to learn about Irish bushcraft and archaeology. If you happen to know Dr. Theresa Emmerich Kamper at University of Exeter, she taught me how to make buckskin when I was a teenager. Today at work, I tracked snakes and minks through my employer's horse pastures and thought of Torak's tracking trance. Adulthood is wonderful, but hard, and reading your books brings me back to the primal joy of being a human in the forest. I can't tell you what an influence COAD has been, and continues to be, on me as a writer, person, and practitioner of ancestral skills. These books are part of me. Thank you for sharing them with the world.
I also want to thank you and celebrate you for giving Dark a mate in Kujai. First off, I love Dark and was so happy to see him get a happy ending! But more importantly, thank you for making their relationship just like any other in the COAD universe. I'm American and queer, and my current government is actively trying to demonize my community as an aberrant thing, as are plenty of other backwards people in this world. But as you, I and countless indigenous cultures worldwide know, queer people have always existed, even in the Stone Age, and always will. Thank you for representing that truth in print, especially during such dark times. It means a lot.
I could gush about these stories until the wolves come home, so I'll leave by saying I hope I can meet you in person some day and thank you face to face. In the meantime, thank you for these wonderful books that have helped make me who I am.

Dear Kai, thank you so much for this wonderful message.  I’m delighted that the Wolf Brother stories inspired your wolf studies – not to mention your pursuit of bushcraft, archaeology and conservation – all of which are truly impressive for one still so young! And thank you for sharing that gorgeous picture!  The black wolf strongly reminds me of one I got to know well during my research at the Wolf Trust in Berkshire (apart from the different eye colour, that is); and it’s such a vivid close-up that I want to reach out and stroke her paw!  Finally, I’m really pleased that you liked the storyline of Dark and Kujai.  You’re not alone in this.  I can well understand that these feel like dark times, particularly given how some are trying to demonise different parts of society.  But personally, I take heart from the fact that since I was a child back in the 1960s, things have, in the main, improved for those in the LGBTQ+  community – although not worldwide, of course.  And I hope and trust that this improvement won’t prove easy to turn back.  But enough of that.  Thank you again for getting in touch – and may your studies and your wolf work go from strength to strength!  With very best wishes, Michelle