Realmwalker just announced that the release date for Purge of Ashes will be April 5. All we’ve got to do between now and then is cook up a cover, rally the banners, and convince a celebrity fantasy author to give it a go. I’ll do the first two.
This means the countdown clock can finally be set, Aneom bend his hand!
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Today’s major announcement is still yet to come!
JM.
The title says it all, really. Although that does not prevent me from saying other, less useful stuff in the post itself. Seems like a waste of time, though.
The sprucing up of the map has occurred. I searched through Purge of Ashes noting all instances where characters refer to distance traveled or distance yet to travel down The Longest Road, and then compared my findings to the Scale (in Runs) in the bottom right of the mega map. It fit as it should: each offhand comment on distance mathematically matched the actual distance according to the mega map – which speaks less to luck, I think, than of an unconscious understanding of the real-world conversion of my fictitious distance unit. Suffice to say, appeasement.
My front matter has been submitted. My manuscript has been submitted. What next but to produce a scintillating synopsis?
And a comparison, of course:
This…
…trimmed to this:
Details matter. Earn your place.
JM
It came to my attention tonight that my map for Imbalance somehow got a little screwed up along the way. See, the .PSD for this project is massive. It takes enough minutes to load and save that I immediately hop to my cell phone to play chess. Suffice to say, that means things sometimes move slowly in-program and it took a lot of tries to get the shading effects right on the land and water both. In other words, it’s busy.
At some point the shoreline pixelated wherein it still looked GOOD but also didn’t. It suddenly was built from tons of tiny beige boxes instead of a smooth shoreline. I am certain I had a superior model at some point, but must have saved over it without noticing or the whatnot.
Now it falls on me to clean the sucker up before I vouch for it to Realmwalker’s in-house cartographer… and Xyn’s arse, that’s a lot of shoreline to massage.
JM
Imbalance 