{"id":3534,"date":"2014-09-25T11:36:04","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T15:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=3534"},"modified":"2014-09-25T11:36:04","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T15:36:04","slug":"slaves-of-the-switchboard-of-doom-on-the-sort-of-final-stretch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2014\/09\/25\/slaves-of-the-switchboard-of-doom-on-the-sort-of-final-stretch\/","title":{"rendered":"Slaves of the Switchboard of Doom, on the sort of final stretch"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Slaves<\/a>\n

\nThis morning marks the milestone that at least one of us<\/em> has been clamoring for: I think I just finished the first pass on my illustrations for Slaves of the Switchboard of Doom<\/em>. I’m hedging my bets there because, a.) sometimes I change my mind, a day or so later; and, b.) the last one – the illustration for Chapter 1 – has been kicking me up and down the street and I can’t be sure that it won’t continue to abuse me.<\/p>\n

\nFor those reasons, that’s not the illustration for Chapter 1 that we see up above. What we do see – and what the reckless among us may click on, to see embiggified – is what I call “Pseudoendpapers A (Front)”.\n<\/p>\n

In the unlikely event of a hardcover edition this would make one half of a pair of endpaper spreads; in the rather more likely trade paperback edition the pseudoendpapers would become simple two-page spreads at the beginning and end of the book.\n<\/p>\n

The pseudoendpapers are (still) crying out for taglines. The text you see at the top here will probably not make the cut because it’s a kind of spoiler. It has the right tone of melodrama tempered by farce. It’s just not quite what I need.<\/p>\n

So the taglines are one thing I still need to do. The other things add up to revisions to six of the chapter illustrations. \"SlavesThe revisions range from mistakes (“Oops! I forgot to put the shazbrogenator in there, when it’s clearly described in the text”) to enhancements (“That’s not crowded enough for a crowd scene”) to potential explosions (“What the heck was I thinking there, anyway?”). I’ll probably be working through those issues for the next few weeks.<\/p>\n

So I’m a couple of weeks behind schedule. I guess that’s not too bad, percentage-wise, when the schedule covers about six months. Back in my days of art direction I’d always pad a schedule by about 20%; but I can’t fool myself that way because I am<\/em> myself: too canny to be taken in by that sort of subterfuge.<\/p>\n

The only bit that’s running seriously behind is the next <\/em>book. I expected to be pounding the keyboard by now, but I’m still thinking some things through and dreaming of index cards. As one does.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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