Police Save Author's Novel

Browsing Forensic Magazine's news section today (what? writers need to know weird forensic-y things! like how to kill people - er, I mean, characters... cough.), I came across this adorable story.

Forensic team saves blind author's novel.

A blind woman was working on her first novel, and did not realize that her pen ran out of ink until her son came to visit and see the book she'd been talking about. I've lost a couple novels now -- one in grade school, when my notebook went missing, and two on my dad's computer when he rebooted the system without warning me to back up my work first -- and I still have never recovered. It's traumatic, yo!

So I thought it was really sweet that a forensics team in Dorset offered to spend their spare time reconstructing her novel by reading the indentations left by the pens under special lighting. And it took 5 months! Those are some seriously neighborly police.