Kingdoms & Curses Author Blog
Final Proofing DONE! Working on Art.
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- Published: Monday, 01 September 2014 22:06
- Written by Michelle
I'm about halfway through the Kickstarter campaign, and all is going well. I've used this opportunity of the middle of the campaign lull to work on the publishing aspects of the book, which gets very exciting.
I've finished the final proofing of the book, and am nearly done fitting the text into the final formated document, which looks very nice and is always a bit exciting. Looking at the size of the actual text area of the page, I'm a bit surprised at how tall (and not wide) the area is to fit the illustrations in. I did aim for a small, purse-sized book, but the size makes me a bit apprehensive about the illustrated timeline I must do.
I just got out of a meeting with artist Diane Hartman, the inspiration for me to begin writing again, to go to over the sketches for each of the stories. After staying up late last night doing very rough versions, I'm so relieved that I don't have to do them myself... I'm feeling very comfortable about where I'm at in the schedule of tasks, but still have much to do.
I've also commissioned a limited edition poster by cousin Jess Muller for a book and a message from this dude (spoiler: this is the Thank You Message that Kickstarter pledgers of the Charismatic Ambassador level get.) I've asked her to do a nice, colored image of an original sketch I made for the cover before I found the awesome, inexpensive cover-image on istockphotos. I'm very excited to see what she makes of it.
I'm going to start releasing more samplers of the book, a paragraph here and there as I go.
I'm regularly visiting facebook these days, actually responding to people (shock!) so give me a shout and I'll actually shout back! I also post more updated on there as well.