One of the sculptors (Thomas David) posted
last week that the other sculptor (Jacques Alexandre Gillois) is currently working on the Doppelsöldner captain and is in regular contact with Cipher. He also says that he'll start working on the next Saracen release whenever they tell him to.
Also Alaster
posted today that they just finished the latest proofreading, sent it to Geof, and that it should get to Cipher by the end of the week.
I too think this is taking a lot longer than I thought it would (I was expecting all of that to be done in 2009, or early 2010 at the latest), and that this silence isn't doing them any good. But things are progressing.