Crown for Cold Silver Map

[TimPaul]

So the map for the book has been made public. That's publishing talk.

You can see it here, and click on it to make it bigger. And later this week or next week, there will be an interview between me, the creative director and the author.

The book was originally inspired by heavy metal. And the authors original sketches of the world was very much an inverted pentagram. He wanted to move away from such a literal take on the world. However, I thought if I could keep a nod to that some how, it could make for an interesting map. For that, I arranged the names of the five bodies of waters to form a circle. So that there was a suggestion of a pentagram were the land would met the circle you could draw.

It's a little off centered, but it was designed to fit across two pages in the book, so I had to allow for the gutter, and make sure no text fell in that area. But the map didn't end up in the hardcover (It will the trade paper back). Bummer.

And here is also a low res version of it.