…”Out of period!” sniffs the judge of exclamations.\u00a0 “Does not fit the book.”<\/p>\n
Well, no, but my copies of the Orbit edition of Oath of Fealt<\/em>y arrived today.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 They’re both in the study with me where I gloat over them every few minutes.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n I’m slightly confused because my Del Rey editor told me they wanted to do the map across two pages, and to send her the map as two maps with the cut in the right place…the map in the Orbit book is on one page.\u00a0\u00a0 I think I remember sending Del Rey both the whole and the halved versions…<\/p>\n Meanwhile, back in the writer-brain, there’s an argument going on between the Plot Daemon and the Set Designer (who doubles as Costume Department.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Set Designer wants to stop all actual writing on the story and spend considerable time (when S.D. says “Oh, it’ll just take a few days” we are talking weeks…)\u00a0 with my drafting tools and a pad of paper.\u00a0\u00a0 S.D. was blown away by the graphics in the Temple Grandin movie<\/a>, where her thoughts turned into drawings that could move.<\/p>\n S.D. has gotten loose before.\u00a0\u00a0 We spent a long time designing the Deep Space Repair vessel Koskiusko<\/em>, for instance, for the Serrano\/Suiza book Once a Hero<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 A long time, with many happy hours spent in Corel Draw<\/a>, and with pencil and pen and paper as well.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hours during which Plot Daemon muttered imprecations down in the engine room, occasionally screaming into the speaking tube, “Are ye no done YET?”\u00a0\u00a0 To which S.D. replies that you can’t rush genius, every detail matters…then steps back to avoid the blast of steam.<\/p>\n