Good morning all you fans of fantasy!<\/p>\n
As many of you know, last month was November, which for a lot of people means not shaving your mustaches and beards. \u00a0For some writers, it means one hectic 30 days of trying to reach a goal that might seem impossible: 50,000 words. \u00a0For some people, NaNoWriMo is a breeze. \u00a0For me, I knew it was going to take some special attention. \u00a0I did away with my notebook for this particular adventure, and just wrote everything on the computer. \u00a0My goal was 1667 words per day\u2014I met them most days, surpassed them on a couple of days and missed out entirely one or two days because of Thanksgiving, Black Friday and other things.<\/p>\n
I knew that I couldn’t do it by myself. \u00a0Though the story had been brewing in my head for years (more on that later), it had been part of a different medium. \u00a0I needed a little push to think of it as a real story in the Tellest universe.<\/p>\n
That’s where RedPear came in. \u00a0While I wasn’t ready to commit 100% to it being a novel, I wanted a cover for this story. \u00a0She agreed to give me an interim cover, which, when it’s completed, will inform the final cover that we’ll likely get from Leo if he’s up for it. \u00a0But first, we started with some sketches.<\/p>\n
These were both ones that we ultimately passed on. \u00a0Even though I love all the things that RedPear does, we could only choose one, and we ended up with this one:<\/p>\n After that, it was only a matter of fleshing it out.<\/p>\n It’s amazing how much of a difference RedPear can make with just the lineart\/sketch phase of her work. \u00a0She did a really cool job letting me know where we were going with the final piece.<\/p>\n![\"HotF](\"http:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HotF-3.jpg\")
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