Inharmonic is in the hands of my editor right now, so I’m officially hands-off with the wordsmithing for the moment.
(At least, with this book. *Secret project* writing may or may not be happening.)
So, with the words out of play, I’ve been focusing on the book’s trappings. You know, the formatting, the images, and, oh yeah, the map!
Every good fantasy story needs a map, and this fantasy story actually started with one. With I first began plotting Inharmonic, I needed something visual to help keep me straight on the wheres and how-fars. (Remember Setting the Scene ?) It started as a roughly sketched pen-and-ink map in the pages of a paper notebook I purchased specifically for book plotting, before switching completely to digital within a matter of weeks. Then, it became a rather terrible click-and-drag map that looked like something straight from MS Paint about 15 years ago. And that’s what I worked from as I wrote the story.
But then,
THEN,
I handed it off to my amazing cartographer.
And he came back with this:
I love the contemporary feel of this map! Like most fantasy stories, Inharmonic is set in a sort of timeless, medieval-ish, era. But the people of Amrantir and its neighboring lands have more knowledge and understanding in certain areas than your average medieval townsperson.
Our story begins in the Seven Steppes, not far from the edge of the Forest of Kithira…
(Special thanks to Tiffany Munro and aleksm/shutterstock for select map images.)
