The Cover

I’ve proposed this to Prue and I’m waiting to hear what she thinks, but in the meantime, I’ll show you what I’m working on.

The Portfolio

This will be a portfolio containing the maps I’ve made for Prue Batten’s Eirie novels. So far I’ve made maps of the entire world, Trevallyn (a large agricultural province), Veniche (an archipelago famous for art, music, and high civilization), and The Raj (a far-flung trading empire beyond the central mountain range)

Gervaise's Statement and Closed Envelope

The world of Eirie had never been seriously mapped because of the threat of retaliation by the Others, a mysterious race who live, as it were, sideways to the humans in Eirie. Gervaise, known as The Cartographer, was the first explorer to attempt any systematic mapping of the planet, not without cost. A short statement by him is included on the verso inside of the portfolio.

The Maps

The four maps are contained in an envelope pasted to the recto inside the portfolio, interleaved with translucent vellum. I plan to make this a limited edition of ten, and as Prue and I develop more maps of the Pym Archipelago, the Han, Methven, Zeeland, and the frozen and inhospitable Oighear Dubh, I’ll publish subsequent editions with the old and the new maps.

In other news, the weather in Southern California is so beautiful that I’m going to stop working, open all the windows, bake a banana cake, frost it with coconut frosting, and sit on the patio and eat it. Mmmmmmmm. . . . . .