A trip to the opticians yesterday, where I had my retina photographed. It looked like Mars. really cool. I have healthy eyes and no forming diseases, which is cool *grin*. I also have more melanin in my eyes then most people in the area, LOL

The optician seemed quite surprised and miffed that I had more melanin then him…

He puts the lack of it in Liverpool to the sunbed culture that thrives here. I’m blue-white and freckled and have no intention of sunbathing and becoming the glorious orange that everyone from 11 upwards seems to crave. So my eyes are chock-ful of the stuff that protects my eyes and which UV light destroys.

Much smugness today? You bet.

I also went bag shopping, discovered that the bag I liked was 75 pounds and spent the money on books instead. A much more worthwhile cause.

And so to the title of the post. I was hunting for my third book in the 3 for 2 offer and picked up Parallel worlds by Michio Kaku. I know nothing about science. I scraped by in O level Biology and Physics and Chemistry stopped at 14. So I always have to start from scratch if the story I want to write has heavy science in it. Nimue’s Price – prime example.

7% and Rising is about time travel and I was happy with my theory about how it worked. Now I’m half way through Parallel worlds and 7% is starting to change. It’s going ever so slighty very quantum, LOL I’m going to be mean and not give any more away.

Reluctant’s title was annoying me. So the new one is Past Lies. Which isn’t as in your face as some of my other titles, LOL

7% and Rising has an epilogue now. Which is cool.

I’ve sent it off to the discerning claws of Ms Kruger. I can expect the tattered remains to be returned shortly…

It may, or may not, need an epilogue. I’m undecided as yet.

Olivia. I’m starting to forget where your comments are, so I’ll reply here, LOL

Oh let us know how you get on with that first draft in 30 days thingy. I was looking at that the other day, but I read somewhere else that it only really works for non-fiction (surely that’s rubbish, going by the amount one can write during NaNoWriMo…).
I’m dithering about NaNo this year. It worked very well for me last year but it was rather tiring LOL! I will if you will…

I agree with you – it can’t just be for non-fiction, as it has extensive character sheets. I’m going to work on the outline for Alchemy, probably starting this week, so I’ll let you in on the screams of frustation as I try to work something out, LOL Alchemy is going to be my Nano attempt. Like it was last year *sigh*

I’m writing Reluctant at the same time as I’m sorting Alchemy. I need that story done with!

And Mark, the the post I think was flagged was the prosthetic leg one. I have no idea why… 😉

…I’ve just done something unspeakable to Alexander Roen, hehe

Tootling about the web, as you do, and I just found out that Stargate SG-1 has had the chop.

I’m not really surprised. For me it ended after series 8. It morphed in to Far-gate after that. And while I did like the Arthurian stuff and the bizarre similarity between Daniel Jackson and Cam Mitchell, it just wasn’t doing it for me anymore.

Currently, I’m writing the end for 7% and Rising. Time stories mess with my head. I have about three… four… converging universes in on laboratory high up on Cairn Gorm in the twenty fifth century.

As you do 😉

Looking at people who’ve visited my blog… I think one of my posts might have been flagged objectionable.

Oops again.

Frodo was a big 5 today.

The Ent made us all get up at 6am so that he could trundle the remote control dalek into Frodo’s darkened bedroom. Mayhem followed, until…oh… 6pm… when the two small Hobbits, muttering rebellion about a bath, but more than happy to go to bed, tramped up the stairs.

The Ent will have a more detailed blog post about the day. I think he started it some time around 10.30…

And because the Hobbitses went to bed so early, I got my Final Line Edits done for Buying Mackenzie’s Baby. Which is very cool.

So it’s back to 7% and Rising. YAY

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While I was writing 7% and Rising yesterday, I had this sudden urge to sub. As you do.

So a 7k story winged it’s way to Whiskey Creek Press.

The response times are about a month at the minute. And the wait is definitely worse for an epub. When I sent out a tree I know I’ll get a paper response, usually with ‘What the hell were you thinking???’ on headed paper, LOL.

With an epub, it has to be an electronic reply. Which has me checking my email every three and a half seconds.

Oddly, this nervousness is only for Whiskey Creek. I emailed The Bone Magician’s Daughter to Macmillan, and I’m not that anxious about the reply. Maybe it’s because epublishers are often quick. Big publishing houses usually aren’t.

However, Macmillan did say 6-10 weeks on their website.

Damn. Now I have two things to eep about… *sigh*

Hello? Yes, Jarod Vae is on another continent right now.

Can I take a message?

I… don’t think you should describe the Lord Vae in those terms, madam… And that’s not very nice either. No. I will not tell him where he can put that.

I will, however, tell him that you called. But I will not be held responsible for his actions…

Yes, madam, and you.

Writers… *sigh*