Paksworld

My artist friend Jen handed over the digital version of the title block design for the Paksworld website and I got to play with coloring  inside the lines.  Jen worked from my very crude design, done with a rollerball pen on graph paper, and made it beautiful.

The challenge was to find a design that would scale up and down and still evoke the complexity of the world I’m writing in.   We started over a month ago (before Jen was called in) and I started showing sketches to my web designer.   This produced a series of encounters  that went roughly like this:

Me: “See this?  Isn’t it gorgeous?  I want something like *this* bit right here, but mixed with this other thing over there.”

Webguru:  “Do you have any idea how many pixels that takes?”

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Editors on both sides of the Atlantic and their respective powers that be (upstairs, the suits, the bean-counters) have agreed, so Oath of Fealty is now the official (until something breaks) title.

The comment from someone upstairs at Del Rey (“upstairs” is a hierachal terms, in this instance, not  architectural)  was that this title would work if we weren’t trying to go outside the core audience.  Which I’m not, though the Paks books have pulled in some very interesting readers.