Paksworld

Author’s copies of the UK edition of Kings of the North arrived yesterday and look really good…the cover is stunning.   Including the double-page-spread map.   I think you in the UK will see the actual books in the stores earlier than we in the US, if I understood  UK Editor’s email.    Thus it’s time for a reminder that any spoilerish comments  need to be clearly marked with “Spoilers” in the subject line so that those who haven’t gotten the book yet aren’t given tidbits they don’t want…and ideally no spoilerish comments will appear until mid-April. Read the rest of this entry »

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Time has not been kind to the old drafting table, but the internet has been–because when I looked up used and new drafting tables, I found one for sale boasting of its Vyco cover.    That’s the kind of cover my mother had on her big table at the oil company she worked for.    So I asked the blueprint place if they carried it, and they did, and yesterday I picked up a piece of about the right size for this table.  Here’s what it looked like before:

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You’ve seen much of this before, in the Oath of Fealty map, but there are some additions.

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Still working on the map(s).    I’m going to have to take the current set of “stuff” down to the city again to the bigger scanners & copiers.  But I got a halfway decent photo of the west map (not perfectly aligned…standing on step-stool above the drafting table with only a room light and the camera flash…trying not to wiggle and also not fall off the stool…

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The east half of the new map may be ready to photograph…when it’s printed, you’ll notice some tributaries you didn’t see before (hadn’t needed them before) and some towns, strongholds, etc.  The west half is still being worked on.  The southwest corner has acquired another range of mountains.

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Here’s the current state of the map.   I’m about ready to pull the undersheets of details to be transferred and continue with the empty spots.

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Someday, maybe even tomorrow, there’ll be another picture of the map progress.   It won’t look like much, but that’s because today I erased about a quarter of it.  Luckily for me (and you, in the long run) what needed erasing wasn’t inked yet.  Now it is.

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As if you didn’t know that already.    But last year’s goof (not recognized as a goof at the time)  has made the last week….difficult.   I’m swiping a post I made over at SFF.net  so I don’t have to write the embarrassing thing twice, but being a writer, I had to edit and revise it. Read the rest of this entry »