Comments for EBook: Devil to Pay: Chapter Seven

EBook: Devil to Pay: Chapter Seven: 02/07/10

The pieces are almost in place. Eric and Sapsis have reached the Hookshire. Eric is there to see Susan. Sapsis is there to seek guidance. She wants to do something useful to help the Shadow Kenams come home. They accept her offer but the help they ask for is well beyond what she can do by herself.

For Susan Eric's arrival signals a change in her life. She firmly believes her life is on a new path. Although she'll someday be Duchess of Hook and through her station be expected to interact with Alfred when's king, she thinks these will be momentary inconveniences.

But the Everything has a different pattern in mind for everyone as it brings the Children of Alsiekipsie home.

Writing and Mapping

When writing its easy to get caught up in the fun and to start throwing around place names willynilly. It's just as easy to forget where these places are relative to each other. To keep thing straight I started mapping my world last year. The map is still a work in progress.

At the state level, especially for Capital State, I want to include major highways. At a global level, I want to figure out the time zones. Right now I have 26 areas marked out but they don't follow any of the geopolitical boundaries as the time zones on Earth do. To make Albion a little different from Earth, I've added two extra hours meaning that midnight and noon fall at 13 o'clock.

You'll also notice that most of Greater Albion is south of the Equator. When I was first rolling around plot ideas in my head I was in Australia as an exchange student. So much of fiction and science fiction I've read has a very northern hemisphere approach regardless of where their story is set. Being a northern hemisphere person I have to admit it's hard to instantly remember what season it should be. Now of course, Greater Albion isn't Earth and won't have the same degree of tilt to its access so the southern hemisphere thing is just a starting point — a reminder to think about the details.

Below is a small detail from the much larger map I'm working on. Not every place on the map has been mentioned in the chapters I've posted but they will be. The red line is route of the bullet train that connects most of the northern cities to Kings City.

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books | scifi | Sarah Sammis | 2010

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