Ebayers Take Note: Balance of Trade Poster

For those who indulge, your attention is solicited on behalf of the Meisha Merlin coreboard poster Balance of Trade.

Bidding starts at one thin penny and the auction runs for ten days.

Doesn't look like much, does it?

Progress on Duainfey

29,835 / 100,000 (29.8%)

Yes, boys and girls, I typed for hours and hours and all I have to show for my efforts is a lousy 500 words. The fact that I ripped out the last half of chapter 12 and totally rewrote it is invisible -- and unimportant. The fact of the matter is, rewrite or not, the word count advanced but minutely this day.

I need to go do, um, dishes. You'd think, by looking at the sink, that I was actually working or something, sigh. In a few hours, we're going over to Waterville to help our friend Ellen at Children's Book Cellar host her Pottering. I may get another couple hundred words down today between it all, but -- probably not.

By request, the following snippet:
"No." He said flatly, hands fisting at his sides as he recalled what he must do.
The chyarch raised an eyebrow. "Could you be more explicit?"