With the $89.99 price on an eBookWise and $259 on KindleII and Nook, I'm used to ever-declining prices for appliances. After all, electronics keep getting cheaper, right? Karen and I decided to walk out and look for some of the stuff we're going to need for our new house. We're going to need a LOT of stuff. Like a refrigerator, a washing machine and drier, a dishwasher, a garbage disposal, a new bathroom sink, a new kitchen sink, a heater (okay, hopefully the current owner is putitng in the heater before we close but how motivated will he be? Not sure). It's amazing what a range of prices you can get on something like a, well, a range. Try from $349 to $5499 or so. Can you imagine paying that much for a stove? I mean, you could go out to Jack in the Box a thousand times for that. I'm pushing for the low-end. Karen is not so sure.

It's looking as if we're going to have a house. We go to inspect on Sunday, but we've gotten a number of reports from previous inspections and it appears as if the basics have been taken care of (new foundation, new heater, termite repair). We'll have some electrical issues to deal with, and the garage appears to have some issues, but nothing sounds show-stopping. Karen has stopped looking at real estate. It's as if a mental switch went off in her head and she's suddenly moved beyond. Good thing I didn't persuade her to get her real estate license.

Tonight, Karen and I went out to a neighborhood coffee place (the Royal Cup on 10th and Redondo) to catch up on our NaNoWriMo writing. It was a sort of write-in but there were only the two of us (there was another guy with a computer but he didn't look up so I assumed he was either deep in plot or not NaNo). I got a few pages written. Karen did even better.

I'm behind on reviews (again). I'm working on submissions. I submitted Weird Tales of the Skullmask to Fictionwise and bought another proof copy of Weird Tales (grrr...once again, I submitted a proof with ragged rather than right-justified margins adding delay and cost to the cycle. I hate this). Next week, I'll submit to all of the other distributors we use. Fictionwise, for some reason introduces a significant delay between submission and posting. The other distributors are near-real-time, so I don't post there until the $1.00 month is over.

I'm reading Finger Licking Fifteen by Janet Evanovich.

I'm going to make VEIL OF THE GODDESS by Rob Preece the www.BooksForABuck.com book of the day. When US soldiers find the True Cross buried beneath a bombed Iraqi mosque the countdown to the end times starts ticking. Sgt. Ivy Newland and Capt. Zack Herarra hope to head it off, but a powerful and secret organization will stop at nothing to bring about what they see as the promises of the second coming. Exciting secret-history thriller. Only $3.99. Learn more, read the excerpt or buy the book here: http://www.booksforabuck.com/mystery/mys_06/veil_goddess.html (HTML, Adobe PDF, eReader, Mobipocket/Kindle, Microsoft Reader, Sony Reader, and ePub formats). Here's the cover (cover design by Kat Baldwin):

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