{"id":1546,"date":"2012-03-14T14:04:17","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T18:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=1546"},"modified":"2012-03-14T14:04:17","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T18:04:17","slug":"thrilling-tales-ive-finished-the-final-illustration-for-the-lair-of-the-clockwork-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/14\/thrilling-tales-ive-finished-the-final-illustration-for-the-lair-of-the-clockwork-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Thrilling Tales – I’ve finished the final illustration for the Lair of the Clockwork Book"},"content":{"rendered":"\"the\n
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You won’t see it until April 23, but yesterday I finished the last illustration for The Lair of the Clockwork Book<\/a><\/em>. It’s been such a very, very long haul – exactly fourteen months after I finished the first illustration, and that doesn’t account for the months of pre-production and writing that went before.<\/p>\n

It was a little earlier that this really hit me; about three illustrations back, I think, when I started to realize that I was beginning a long goodbye to the Book. There’s a strange combination of relief and dismay.<\/p>\n

Of course there’s actually a lot left to do. I’m now taking the rough book layout and making it significantly less rough, with typographical changes, page ornaments, and so on. I need to finish the paperback cover and then the cover and dust jacket designs for the hardcover edition (thanks, Kickstarter!). Even when I think<\/em> that’s all done, I’ll have to proof the pages and fix everything that wasn’t really finished. And finally, with all the cover issues settled, I’ll produce the actual books.<\/p>\n

But yesterday was still a big day!<\/p>\n

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In the meantime although I’m certain that the next serial at Thrilling Tales of the Downright Unusual<\/a><\/em> is going to be different, I’m still not quite sure what that means. It will probably update just once a week; it will probably be illustrated in black and white, rather than in color; it will be longer, and the presentation of the pages will need to be a little different.<\/p>\n

I’m not even positive that the guy on the left here is going to be Our Hero, but I think he’s more like the character than the last version was.<\/p>\n

But before I can really wrestle with those ideas I have to make much better progress on Part Two of The Toaster With TWO BRAINS<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In my original plan that would have been nearly done today; my original plan went cartwheeling into the Sun quite some time ago.<\/p>\n

Just to make things even more interesting<\/em>, which is what you always want, I’ve been watching the traffic at Thrilling Tales<\/em>: the site’s returning visitors have just about doubled since the Kickstarter drive for The Lair of the Clockwork Book<\/em>. I know that if I hunker down and work on TWO BRAINS<\/em> for a few months those folks are going to get tired of coming back to see nothing new.<\/p>\n

So I’m also wondering what sort of Intermission I can run on the site that can update weekly without killing my TWO BRAINS<\/em> schedule. Again. While I also lay the foundation for the next thing.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, there’s always coffee.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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You won’t see it until April 23, but yesterday I finished the last illustration for The Lair of the Clockwork Book. It’s been such a very, very long haul – exactly fourteen months after I finished the first illustration, and that doesn’t account for the months of pre-production and writing that went before. It was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thrilling-tales","category-works-in-progress"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}