Maps

[thione.livejournal.com]

One of the things that I've found most interesting about the latest update from Greenwillow (of course I wasn't caught swooning! Don't be ridiculous...) is the /inclusion of a map./ Ever since Eugenides, the Magus, Pol and the Uselesses trekked across all three borders in the Thief, I've been curious to know exactly how the Eddisian mountains are laid out. I've made a few attempts myself, based on the info we have in the books about the Dystopia, the Sea of Olivers, and the sparse mention of major bodies of water... but they don't seem coherent or book-jacket worthy. If anybody else has come up with a design, I'd love to see it!

--Theone

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[elle-winters.livejournal.com]

http://pics.livejournal.com/tearoha/pic/00004aey

This was a really good map that someone drew..not sure who though!

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

I hope this link works--it's all the sounis posts that are tagged "maps".

http://community.livejournal.com/sounis/tag/maps

I'm rereading QoA and am mightily confused about where everything is located. But I'm the first to admit I'm a map dummy. Really looking forward to seeing this infamous map, when it (hopefully)ends up in the final version of ACoK.

It will be there? Right?

[tearoha.livejournal.com]

At the risk of being flagrantly self-promoting, here http://community.livejournal.com/sounis/213657.html is the original post and explanation for the map Elle mentioned, and another one drawn by the lovely pigrescuer, which has the countries the other way around, because none of us can ever agree on which order the countries are in :-P

Please, please, Greenwillow, put us out of our misery and let us see a proper, author-approved map!

[thione.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous. Also appreciate the high-resolution image which allows me to see the lovely tiny handwriting so typical of excellent maps, and to print my own copy.

Thanks!

[tearoha.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! I'm very flattered that someone liked it enough to print.

[(Anonymous)]

Uh? Um . . .

No map.

*goes home*
*locks door*
*pulls down the shades*

*is hiding*

~mwt

[tiegirl.livejournal.com]

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?

[(Anonymous)]

*sigh*

No, no map. I didn't get it done and it seemed like a bad idea to hold up production.

[thione.livejournal.com]

There are more important things than maps, I will agree.

Silver lining: this requires that I now redo mine, so I have some general sketch to follow. It'll give me a chance to work on my cartography sketches, anyhow.

[tearoha.livejournal.com]

Oh noooo! But yes, probly we'd all prefer to get the book sooner rather than wait.

May we see it anyway, when it gets finished?
*crosses fingers, toes, and all other available appendages for that 'when'*

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know. But I know my editor wants it done even before the next manuscript. And the copyeditor threatened to feed himself to a leopard if we tried to squeeze one in at the last minute. Or, wait . . . maybe it was me he was going to feed to the leopard.
Hmmmm.

~mwt

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

. . . maybe it was me he was going to feed to the leopard

Can't imagine why. :P

Megan, I'm beginning to suspect that even you aren't sure which way the countries are lined up.

Or, conversely, you're sitting there, like author/murder victim Appin Kungannon in that classic piece of literature Bimbos of the Death Sun, bottle of Chivas Regal at hand, snorting at us while we devise plausible explanations and minute details.

Or, maybe you're just a procrastinator. Wonder which one it is.

[tearoha.livejournal.com]

I suspect a combination of all three :P

[(Anonymous)]

Hey! I resemble that!

~mwt

[tearoha.livejournal.com]

the copyeditor threatened to feed himself to a leopard if we tried to squeeze one in at the last minute. Or, wait . . . maybe it was me he was going to feed to the leopard.
Huh, I know which one I'd bet on! :-P

[thione.livejournal.com]

You know, unfinished, ambiguously concieved map aside, I just appreciated hearing the words "next manuscript."

:: sighs in contentment ::

[(Anonymous)]

Very true statement

mwt you're very much like Attolia, even though you pull the release date back by a month and give us false hopes for a map, I still can't help but love you because the "next manuscript" is on the way...

[tiegirl.livejournal.com]

H..hu..hold up production?? Nnoooo!
*wails*
*hates on map*
*hits idea of map with stick*

[thione.livejournal.com]

:: comforts crying map :: I know she didn't mean it. It's okay.

Now. :: holds out unfinished map :: Go on. Kiss and make up.

[(Anonymous)]

XD bahahahaha

yes, it's not the poor, unfinished map's fault now is it? Now, I think it deserves an apology.

[thione.livejournal.com]

Indeed. :: nudges map from behind knees :: One day, when you're all grown up and finished, little map, she'll be pouring over you in joy. Be polite and accept her apology, dear one. :: listens :: Oh. :: takes stick :: There. No more stick. Go on. Be friends again.

[tiegirl.livejournal.com]

If "the map" dares to hold up production, I will not kiss it. Besides, I prefer kissing Costis. (Or would, if he were a live person who would let me)

[(Anonymous)]

No need to be bitter tiegirl! go and kiss the map
it isn't holding up production, and you know it missy!

-El

[tiegirl.livejournal.com]

Fine, whatevs. *kisses non-existent map*

[elle-winters.livejournal.com]

wait..no..no map?
first we have to wait till April and now there's no map..?
.....I'll be here in the corner till april..if anyone needs me..*goes in corner and cries*

[thione.livejournal.com]

There, there. It's okay. One day the map will be here. Until then, we have much to speculate about, and notes to compare, neh? And details to meanly wrest from the author with threat of leopard ingestion. It seems effective. You should come out of the corner and give it a try.

[elle-winters.livejournal.com]

*comes out of corner and pats unfinished map on the back awkwardly*

well..I guess you're right. It's not the maps fault it's not been finished in 5 years...*glares ruefully in the direction of a CERTAIN author* ...and I do love discussions..

[annyeshireen.livejournal.com]

I hate to be the bringer of bad news but, "sniff" there will never be a map. However, we can all just wait until the new book to get more geographical info to add to those done!!!