Snippet alert

Progress report and two (very short) snippets, one from each book, are now up at the Paksworld blog.   I'm about to fold several outlier chapters into the main book file (always a scary moment!)

The total length...well, nearly the total length because there are one or two more outlier bits...is right about 146,000 words...and it's not finished.  Naturally.  A lot happens in many places between where I am now and the end, though I can almost nearly see the end (of this one...which isn't the last o