My profuse apologies! :-) I've been slacking off on submitting and validating lately, but when I go into the office tomorrow, I'll submit 14 romances and a few other miscellaneous books. There are only 6 of my books on the download list currently. I've had up to 50 books on it before, so this is a real low point for me too. I have about 30 books (20 adult, 10 kiddie) waiting to be scanned in the office, but circumstances have prevented me from processing them in a timely manner. I hope to scan and OCR them next week sometime, and submit them the following week. Carrie Gerald Hovas <GeraldHovas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: I don?t know if anyone?s noticed, but the Step 1 list happens to only have 297 books on it at the moment. It?s the first time I?ve seen it that low. Sometime early last year it was up around 600. It shrank down to around 375, then it went back up into the low 500?s. Now it?s back down under 300. All of you who have been focusing on validations instead of submissions have really made a difference. Of course, Carrie?s focusing on bestsellers sure hasn?t hurt. <Smile> Gerald --------------------------------- New Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Call regular phones from your PC and save big.