As near as I can tell, killing off Alistair is actually Eric Flint's fault. The plan was to kill off Honor, and then pick up the story Honor's kids (maybe fraternal twins at this point?) thirty years later. With one of the kids being the military side, and the other the espionage side. Then Eric came up with Anton Zilwicki and From the Highlands / Crown Of Slaves, and bypassed those thirty years. So, David now needs Honor around, and he killed off Alistair instead.
IIRC, the next one is ... late 2009 or early 2010? It's waiting on Crown of Slaves 2, which was, the last I heard, in Eric Flint's hands. I think it's next in Flint's queue. After it's done, then David writes the next mainstream novel.
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Date: 2008-12-01 08:18 pm (UTC)IIRC, the next one is ... late 2009 or early 2010? It's waiting on Crown of Slaves 2, which was, the last I heard, in Eric Flint's hands. I think it's next in Flint's queue. After it's done, then David writes the next mainstream novel.
Let's see - thefifthimperium.com has a writing schedule at http://infodump.thefifthimperium.com/writingschedule.php. It's also something that gets talked about fairly frequently on Baen's Bar - http://bar.baen.com.