What a most excellent day! Not from a word-progress standpoint, though that's been respectable, if not grandiose; but there was good mail, and money, and helpful information, and professional invitations too.

To give you the highlights reel: (a). I've just found out I'll be attending the Pacific Northwest Bookseller's Association trade show in Portland come September, which is sure to be a hoot. I've done three of these trade shows in the past, and it's always an awesome, productive time surroun