1) Glad to hear it. My great ambition has always been to write at least one nightmare tome that will cause unwary readers to plunge into a terrifying, unknown reality -- I'm thinking of the one where technological progress is subject to natural limits, human beings don't run the universe, and stupid ideas don't get any less stupid because some marketer insists that they're the wave of the future.

2) No, actually, the Younger Gods wanted to come into existence, so they created you to do all the work of creating them. ;-)