Thanks for the help. I may just put in something like 'map of
such-and-such', since it just says the name of the map at the top. If you
couldn't see it, just looking at the text, you might not know what's going
on. I may just leave it at that, though, because without sighted
assistance, I can't make much out of it. Besides, I don't think not having
it detracts much from the story. I think in many of these fantasy books
that maps are now just provided as a matter of course, whether or not they
are really needed. (Now with Tolkien, who imagined more geographical detail
than anyone else, he was so good at describing where things were and what
they looked like that even though maps were provided, I always knew where I
was and what lay in various directions, even though I couldn't use a map,
which wasn't included in the recordings anyhow.)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 11:48 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: How Do You Handle Maps?
I always indicate "Map of such-and-such," unless the caption explains what it's a map of. If the location of places is important to the story, in order to give people a sense of dirction and distance, I try to explain, but that's usually iin children's stories. For an example, download Shawneen. I think I did something similar with a map in Ivan Doig's English Creek, tool
Cindy
--- Evan Reese <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm doing one of these fantasy books with a map on facing pages at the beginning. The submitter actually scanned those pages, and while the map obviously isn't here, there is a list of towns at the bottom of one map that came out rather well, as well as a couple of names in the map itself.
I was wondering whether I should write something here about there being a map in the print edition which is not reproduced here or something like that, or just leave things as they are.
Is there some consensus here from people who have done books with maps before.
By the way, I'd love to get accessible maps from some of my favorite fantasy series, such as Tolkien's, Jordan's, Martin's, Brooks, etc. But anyhow, what do people generally do about these things?
Thanks.
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