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This just fully registered -- sometimes it takes a while to penetrate the fog of senility -- could this mean that you've read Blaylock's The Magic Spectacles? I didn't get a chance to read that one when it first came out, although I looked for it in bookstores -- if it was possible to order books online in those days I didn't know about it -- and now it seems to be a fairly expensive collector's item. (You will guess one reason why I was interested in the book when you read TGE.)
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Although quite high already, my opinion of you just went up by an order of magnitude! The Magic Spectacles was indeed one of the books I was referring to. I paid about $110 for a signed English version published by Morrigan, but this was a few years before the internet opened up competitive pricing. Now you can get it in fine condition (unsigned) for as little as $20 (go to the ABE Book Exchange and do a search). I have all of JPB's books, many of them signed. I'm now trying to collect the handful of chapbooks out there, when I can find them at a resonable price.
Back in late 2004, JPB was looking for a publisher for a book called Zeuglodon, which was sort of a sequel to The Digging Leviathan. He himself described it as a "...young adult fantasy that has something to do with the unfinished machinations of the Digging Leviathan, except set now and narrated by an 11 year old girl who considers herself a cryptozoologist."
Alas, we haven't heard much about it since then, and JPB doesn't seem to be as forthcoming and involved with his fans as you are
Edit: After the Blaylock reference, you have me even more excited about TGE, lol.