I'm back from my holiday. It was nice to see old friends and families after a couple of years, and also nice to drop back into taking care of two young humans. I have to say, two weeks of sleeping the whole night was quite amazing. Truly, a good sleep is underrated. I also realized that considering how much there is to do here, at home, I've actually done quite a lot over the last year. More than I feared.
Still, between jet lag and acclimation, it took me a while to get into both a work and a communication groove. I know some of you are justifiably curious when the second book will be finished. So am I, so am I. Who's the guy I can ask about that? Bad joke.
Over the next few weeks I'm going to work my way backwards from roughly page 180 to page 80, applying the final layout to the four lands and leaving gaps for the spot art.
It's going to look like this - with gaps for where the art is going to go.
That will leave me with roughly 220 pages of book and 30 pages left over for the various appendices, glossaries, indices and other bonus bits. Enough to send it over to the editor and get rolling on that front.
Ok, but when?
I'm loath to pin myself down publicly on this, but I have a date in mind—a date I've shared with Exalted Funeral. It's going to be crunch time over the next several weeks getting things done. We went over it with my wife, extended the child care for the Eggy and negotiated a few stretches of time over the weekends to finish things. Part of this crunch mode is that I'll be making more frequent but more barebones updates here. Fewer pretty screenshots, more short updates.
After all, we've got a window of—hopefully—stability on the tariffs front and since I only get paid once we wrap this project, well, my goal is to get done sooner than later.
Ok, but when?
Repeating the question doesn't get it answered faster. And, come on, I don't want to jinx it and get a bad cold or something between now and then. Let me distract you with some pretty spreads.
Last week I restored and re-laid the town traits. That took the number of spot-art ready pages in the book to 110.
And yes, I even inserted some of the spot art already.
I wanted this spread to be a little orange gift for y'all for halloween, but it's November 6th now because it took a bit of time.
Some more pretty locations can't hurt, right? Time to insert the city maps, too. Fortunately I've already done those.
I've redone the chapter openings. Instead of starting with rumors, I'm going more "nat geo". The narrators are still unreliable, but at least the mushrooms are pink.
Yes, you may notice I'm working backwards on the land chapters, from Green (pages 215 to 235 roughly), past Yellow (190 to 215 roughly), into Orange.
Weather, events, map, and travel for each land on one spread.
There, I hope that sounds and looks good.
Ok, but when?
Hah. I hope an update not too far from now will answer that.
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