Oh wow.
Oh.
Wow.
Guys?
The From The Ground Up saga is over. And I am so pleased, and relieved, and excited. I could never have envisaged the journey that this one-book-which-became-three would go on back in 2012 when I first submitted the proposal for it, but now here we are, almost exactly eight years later, and It. Is. Finished.
If you want to refresh yourself on the saga of Getting This Book Into Print, see this 2018 post here, or search the tag fgu or From The Ground Up on the blog.
But the short version is that I submitted a proposal for an epic worldbuilding book called From The Ground Up in November 2012, finished writing/editing/restructuring it in July 2016, got my rights back from the publisher in 2018 at which point I split the book into three parts to publish separately and now, in 2020, here we are: How To Map is finally, finally fully and completely out, and the book. is. done.
(How To Create Cultures and How To Create Life, the other two parts, came out last year.)
Do you know where mountain ranges are most likely to form? What about beaches? Do you know why the features you put on your map determine the raw resources your populations will have access to? Where is the best place to find iron? Why do people from temperate climates tend to be the ones who take over the world?
And most importantly, how does this impact your story?
Find out now in How To Map!
*\o/* Hurrah!
I’m not sure at this point whether I’ll compile everything into a single volume or just leave it at the three (the one section missing from the original is the one mostly likely to date, and quickly, anyway). But either way, I can finally take a break from it (and from doing all the illustrations!) and rest happy in the knowledge that at last, all my research is out and available for other people to benefit from.
Yo, guys. The book is done!
Woo! 😀