Why, look. It's raining.

Going through the Fledgling and Saltation orders/COAs that built up while I was Ignoring Everything in favor of writing Mouse and Dragon. Soon, the databases will be up-to-date. When I'm finished that, I have a pile of receipts two inches thick to enter. Ah, bookkeeping! How I have so not missed you!

Fledgling, Saltation, and! A Poll

I have finished entering the back-logged orders for Fledgling and Saltation. As of this moment, we have 164 Saltation and 214 Fledgling available for adoption. These are for books-signed-by-the-authors. Which will, please note, probably arrive directly to your mailbox some time -- even some Very Long-Seeming Time -- after you could've picked it up in a store. This is because we will be signing and mailing each of those books ourselves. Auctorial fingerprints, no extra charge!

If you're interested in adopting, please drop me a note at rolanniATkorval.com (where The Usual replaces AT).

The rest of the bookkeeping can take a hike for the evening. Also? The chest of drawers did not get built, though the pieces of same have been decanted and counted. Perhaps tomorrow. Or, perhaps tomorrow we'll be grasshoppers and go see Up!

I wondered over on Facebook this morning whether I really needed to hang on to all of the hard-copy submission drafts for various novels. I mean, what's the point? And! If I shredded them and used them for mulch, then I could, like, get rid of a file cabinet! Believe me, there are fewer thrills so heady as getting rid of a file cabinet, especially when there's the possibility of replacing it with a bookshelf. Andy Funk suggested that we auction the drafts off, which I thought was kinda silly (sorry, Andy), because -- Hello? Piles of Old Paper that only have one side available to draw on.

However, in the course of my explorations today, I opened the bottom drawer of one of the file cabinets in my office, discovering the original 'scripts for Agent of Change, Conflict of Honors and Carpe Diem. Not only was this Very Scary (no wonder I don't have any room in the file drawers!), but -- now I can't get the drawer closed.

Which leads me to wonder anew if Andy's idea has merit after all -- would anybody pay for this paper? -- or if shredding is the way to go?

Your opinion counts!

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