Paksworld

I’ll be spending a lot of time on a train in the next week, and the rest will be tied up in meetings and stuff I have to do as a SFWA officer.    Though I’ll have the laptop along, I won’t have much time to post to any of the blogs or reply to comments.   (Right now I should be washing my hair and packing …)

For your entertainment while I’m gone…one of the new PBS subchannels that popped up in our area has a program called AfricaTrek, where two French-speakers walked Africa from end to end, the long way.  I think the woman, Sonja, looks like Paks, at least in the face.   Your opinions?  She’s not as muscular in the upper body, and yet there she is, walking the length of Africa with a pack on her back.

Does the man of this couple look like any character in the books, to you?

For that matter, should miracles happen and someone good want to make a film of this thing (they won’t–it’s too long)  tell me who (that’s alive now) should play Kieri, Dorrin, Arcolin, and the Marshal-General.

When you hear “Dwarfmounts,” what mountain range do you think of?  Do they look like the Alps, the US Rockies, the Canadian Rockies, the Southern Alps in NZ…something else?

I’m working on the character list for both the website and the book itself.  My own personal character list is organized by location and association (that is, all the Duke’s Company names together, all the Tsaian nobility together,  all the Girdish Marshals/paladins/etc. together.)

But it’s readers who will use this for something other than trying to ensure I don’t have fifteen names that all look and sound very similar in the same scene…which is what I use it for.   My editor will rule on what appears in the book(s) but tell me your preferences for character name lists ( questions follow.)

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