You'd think that sooner or later I'd get tired of these "It is coming!" preview blogs. Unfortunately, you would be wrong.
While Winter Witch isn't yet in the warehouse, the print run has arrived in Seattle's port, where it currently lies brooding underneath the apocalyptic skyline of cranes and fenced-off train yards. (Seriously—sometimes I drive by the port at night just to imagine what a dystopian future might look like.) As a result, we've managed to get our hands on a few early copies, and we're extremely excited.
Although I won't speak to the differences between the stories of Winter Witch and Prince of Wolves just now—you can read the summaries and see them for yourself here—I will speak to the production values and say that we've made some aesthetic improvements this time around. Our debut novel was gorgeous, but with an improved paper stock and an increased font size for added readability, Winter Witch is even thicker and meatier. It also features a brand new map of the region in which the story's set, by our own talented Crystal Frasier, and all the Pathfinder Tales novels going forward will have maps in the front. At Paizo, we aren't afraid to tweak the formula and make improvement as ideas occur to us, and it's our hope that if you liked Prince of Wolves, this book will give you that much more to love!
Now to go stand by the viaduct, look longingly out toward the port, and try to figure out which cargo container is ours...
I understand that Expedite Transit is a needed class ability which helps define the class, but don't tell me Channeling Tax and Tariffs, Search and Seizure as a swift action and bonding with Sea Containers of Vast Holding are not all broken! Come on Paizo! Come on !
I'll probably be getting this despite the fact that it is "thicker and meatier."
It's the same number of pages as Prince of Wolves, just on higher quality paper. It's maybe a quarter thicker than its predecessor, but it contains the same amount of words.
I'll probably be getting this despite the fact that it is "thicker and meatier."
It's the same number of pages as Prince of Wolves, just on higher quality paper. It's maybe a quarter thicker than its predecessor, but it contains the same amount of words.
Understood. "Thicker and meatier" just made me think of a soup commercial from the 80s...
The funny thing about this blog post is that we print our novels in the old US of A, so Sutter longingly looking at the port for Winter Witch is futile. Which makes me smile. Hey, James, watch for an Old Dominion truck instead. :)
The funny thing about this blog post is that we print our novels in the old US of A, so Sutter longingly looking at the port for Winter Witch is futile. Which makes me smile. Hey, James, watch for an Old Dominion truck instead. :)
It appears that the warehouse staff have led me on a classic snipe hunt...
The funny thing about this blog post is that we print our novels in the old US of A, so Sutter longingly looking at the port for Winter Witch is futile. Which makes me smile. Hey, James, watch for an Old Dominion truck instead. :)
-Lisa
Surely it more romantic to leave him so? Not to mention, a HELL of a lot funnier.
To comment on the actual blog post, I LIKED that Prince of Wolves had small print. It made it feel like a "real" novel instead of like a fluff book. I pick up a "novel" and the print size is so big, I decide it's a Young Adult book and go on. I do understand that larger print can just mean a larger page count, but it seems more like artificial page count once the print surpasses a certain size.
I hope the print size in Winter Witch will still be relatively small. The print size in the Planet Stories books is usually larger (in my limited experience), but then they're larger format books.
I hope the print size in Winter Witch will still be relatively small.
Comparing the PDFs side by side, I find the type for Winter Witch noticeably but only slightly larger. I prefer it. It makes the page look less crowded, but it doesn't feel anything like a "large type" book.
To comment on the actual blog post, I LIKED that Prince of Wolves had small print. It made it feel like a "real" novel instead of like a fluff book. I pick up a "novel" and the print size is so big, I decide it's a Young Adult book and go on. I do understand that larger print can just mean a larger page count, but it seems more like artificial page count once the print surpasses a certain size.
I hope the print size in Winter Witch will still be relatively small. The print size in the Planet Stories books is usually larger (in my limited experience), but then they're larger format books.
It's definitely not large print--we just compared Prince of Wolves to a wide swath of other mass-market paperbacks and decided we were a touch on the small side.
(Fortunately, right about then we all got unsolicited emails offering to increase our font size a full point in just three weeks, with a complete money-back guarantee. It suggested that our current readers might be secretly unsatisfied with the size of our font... what else could we do?)
(Fortunately, right about then we all got unsolicited emails offering to increase our font size a full point in just three weeks, with a complete money-back guarantee. It suggested that our current readers might be secretly unsatisfied with the size of our font... what else could we do?)
And here I was hoping that this was about a Pathfinder module based in the Game of Thrones. :(
No, if had been based on A Game of Thrones, the post title would have been "Winter is Very, Very, Very Slowly Coming, Assuming the Author Doesn't Die First".
And here I was hoping that this was about a Pathfinder module based in the Game of Thrones. :(
No, if had been based on A Game of Thrones, the post title would have been "Winter is Very, Very, Very Slowly Coming, Assuming the Author Doesn't Die First".
Well, knowing the author, I know that he left for Europe this past Monday to check in on the production. More of a case of "Winter is Filming."
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