That’s obviously not entirely true. Difficult to type when you can’t see.
I’m currently doing final edits on the 9th Death’s Handmaiden book. It should be out in a couple of weeks.
Unfortunately, I had an eye exam this afternoon and everything is blurry. Editing postponed until tomorrow, I think.
Witches and Ray-Guns 
Yep eye exam often leave you blurry and make bright sunlight painful. Reading too much after one gives me a migraine, so postponing editing sounds wise
THIS time, I remembered to take sunglasses with me. First time they did it, I didn’t know. It was a blazing hot day with bright sunlight. I was in agony. Not doing that again.
Ok that title was shocking!😱
So very good to hear from you! Excited that the new book will be out soon. I hope you are well. I hate eye exams…
Mycroft
I don’t hate them, but they are amazingly annoying. And I have another one on Monday (for a different reason in a different place).
At some point, I may post something about my amazing summer. Or, I may not, because I don’t write horror.
They do say that shared pain is lessened, does horror count? I wonder. Wanted to mention that when I try to reply to posts on the blog, I have this problem with word press wanting to log me in and then it appears that my post disappears. So since that is happening I will run the risk of repeating myself here.
Nava vaporized her body by turning it into a nuke. Then her body was rebuilt from absolute scratch by rank five active recovery using a strand of her DNA. Um, if I’m correct how this works, does her new HUMAN DNA call for her ovaries to be empty? Also, isn’t she susceptible to Down now?
When she blew herself to nothing, that was rank SIX Active Recovery. Her, um, soul? maybe? ascended into the Q-field, essentially taking a blueprint for what her physical body is along with it. It’s nothing to do with DNA. It’s magic.
Yes, she would be affected normally by Down now. Having checked the description I did for Down, she would have trouble using sorcery when afflicted by it, but it likely wouldn’t put her entirely out of action. It would be like she was operating in a portable jammer field, and she does pretty well in those.
Also, given that her change in status isn’t documented anywhere but the Greyling family archives, the ASF and such will still have it on record that she’s severely allergic.
Understood, I was not looking at active recovery the correct way. I assumed that while rank 6 tossed her mind into the QField, then 5 would be using a single kept strand of her DNA to rebuild her body. But….magic!
Almost a shame, years down the road her and Suki might have both decided to have children. Man that would be a wild story!
I also forgot that only the Greylings know about the change. I actually have trouble with my memory, which really sucks.
Once the new book arrives I will have the magic number of your books in my kindle library. 69 😳
Thanks for straightening me out on that and thanks for responding.
Have a great day! 🖖
Mycroft
Excited to learn that the new Death’s Handmaiden book is imminent.
Hopefully your eye exam results were OK.
Results take 2-3 weeks. It’s a mass screening thing. Some technician/nurse snaps pictures of your retinas and then some lab somewhere gets around to looking at them eventually. Can’t help but think that this is one of those cases where AI would do as good a job a lot faster, but it is what it is.
Love it when you get drops to your eyes. Normally the result after the exam is that the world looks like a badly over-exposed photo.
I got them one time and by the time my ex and I got out it was dark. She drove home and I marveled at the halos around the street lights. We stopped in a supermarket and I could literally see all the different colors of lights. Green, blue, pink in the meat cases. All that was missing was a ’60s sound track in the background.
I had that one night, but it was after leaving my father at hospital after his first stroke. It was really late and my eyes were not doing good things. And I was driving. The fact that I got home alive is probably a miracle.
But the street lights were pretty.
I don’t know about the UK but in Nevada the CORRECTED vision limit for driving is 20/40. Funny thing is that is the private pilots licence limit too. Mine was always 20/20 when I flew but unless you are a fighter pilot it is not needed. Driving in Vegas….yeah.
I look forward to the next book. You still need to look into cloning to up your production.
Cloning wouldn’t help much. Sadly, my output has dropped in the past couple of years because I was looking after my father and unable to get much work done. Not doing that now, but it has taken a while to get back into the swing of things.
I think I’m getting there. The book after DH9 is already at 16k words and looking good. I think it should be out before the end of the year. Hopefully well before. Also on the glass-half-full side, I got a really big tax refund this year.
I had my first eye exam in nearly 20 years a few months ago – I was able to avoid the dreaded eyedrops that time but was sternly informed that I would be punished during next year’s exam. Thankfully, there’s a bar near the optometrist’s office, so I’ll probably drown my sorrows until my eyes recover.
Looking forward to the new book, and hope your exam results are good.
Happy to see a new book will be out soon. I’m rereading Disruptive Elements now.
I have Iritis, which is literally “swollen eyeball”. When it flares up I get light sensitivity and pain. Also, some of the rods & cones in the eyeball misfire so I see sparkles. Not fun and takes steroid drops several times a day for several days to clear.
Well, that sounds like no fun at all. I’m no stranger to steroids. I’m on them now, but that’s for my skin. No one has suggested eye drops yet, but give them time…
I have Keratoconus (the surface of my retina is irregular and getting worse). I am to the point where glasses no longer work on me, but they can proscribe special contacts. I got stuck in the city after my last appointment, due to dilatation. Couldn’t put contacts in, no prescription sunglasses, and the evil star in the sky was trying to smite me. PS – how do I get active recovery for my eyes?
Sadly (and I do mean that), I don’t think we’ll ever get DH-style sorcery in this world. It sucks to be in mundane reality.
Eye drops and dilation sucked but a couple of years ago my eye center got some magic computerized machine where they put a gadget in front of your eyes and get a computer analysis instantly and then the image is saved for comparison with next year. It’s one of those times I feel glad to live in the modern age.