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I’m sitting at the computer while a cup of mint tea steeps. I’ve been trying to have a cup of mint tea all day and never seemed to manage it. I did manage to do twelve pages on A LICK OF FROST. Before I sit down to sip my tea I’m going to try answering a question or two from the board.

Why hasn’t Anita healed Asher’s scars? Anita has only healed fresh wounds on vampires and shapeshifters. She has never healed an old scar or anything that was less than fresh on anyone. Zombies are more like making clay figures in away, then healing. I mean the zombie is already dead so if something isn’t quite right, it’s not a problem, they’re going back in the grave anyway. For Anita to have a shot at trying to fix Asher, he’d have to cut, or be willing to let someone else cut off flesh until they got to undamaged tissue. Probably it would need to be a silver knife, so the damage might be a new scar. But once he was cut, then Anita would have to see if she could heal him. Maybe she could, but how deep would the cuts have to be, and where would you risk the first cut. I just don’t think it has occurred to anyone that there is even a remote chance that Anita’s healing could heal wounds so very old. She’s also never tried to heal fire damage which seems to be a major no-heal zone for both lycanthropes and vampires, or heck, zombies. I’m just not sure that metaphysics can heal fire damage at all.

Will we be seeing the Bouviers from BLOODY BONES in another Anita book? For those who don’t remember them they were minor/major characters in this one book. They were descend ts from the Unseelie court whose family had immigrated to America long ago. It’s a very different back story for the fey in America than in Merry’s world. So, no, sorry but now that I’m doing Merry no fey in Anita land. But the rule works both ways, no vampires in Merry’s world either. One; the more extensive research I’ve done for Merry makes me want to change things that I’ve already put in print in Anita’s world in BLOODY BONES, so I’m just leaving it alone. Two; I wrote Merry so I could get an occasional break from Anita and her world, so cross pollination of the two series would sort of defeat that purpose.