Saw Steve Today

[Ard Rhys]

I saw Steve today at the University of Washington Bookstore event here in Seattle. He answered many questions. I asked him one, knowing that there are several years between books, has he even started writing Fatal Revenant yet. He mentioned that he has probably only written 11 days worth on it, but that after this tour he will really jump into it. He also told everyone that as one of his series goes on he speeds up writing because he knows where he is going with it. So that is good - we may actually get the last two books quicker than the three years he is contracted to write them.

That's encouraging to me.

He also said he didn't care for the maps in this new book, and gave the reason why a new map wasn't done. So I guess I will share this as well.

He liked the original map done for the first Chronicles. Then the Sunbane came in and destroyed all the forests from the Drop west. The second Chronicles still showed these forests, which he found amusing.

At the end of the second Chronicles, the Staff of Law is put into good hands to heal the Land. The problem is those people had no clue what the Land used to look like during the first Chronicles. And with all the timelines due to get RUNES to the publisher and edited, he had no time to sit down and think about how the Land would like NOW, after millennia have passed. It was very interesting to hear him talk about this.

So he hopes to have a better map in the next book for all of us.

Really there was nothing of much fun to report.

Anyway, just wanted to drop you guys a line about the maps and his timelines.

Shawn

[burgs]

I wish I lived out west............

Thanks for the info on the maps, I was wondering what was up with them.