The first draft of the map for The Harvey Girl!
Courtesy of Cartographers Extraordinaire (yes, that is their official title) Cherie and Thom Northon at mapmakers.com.
It will go in with the manuscript and Liz the copy editor will compare place names on the map with place names in the text and tell me exactly where I let it all go so horribly wrong. After which Cherie and Thom will fix it, masterfully, as they always do.
This long-term professional relationship came about by way of a fan comment Cherie left on stabenow.com, and then she sent me a photo of her holding Blindfold Game in front of an iceberg in Antarctica where she and Thom were on a cruise.
At some point I said, just making conversation, “What do you do, Cherie?”
And she said, “I’m a cartographer.”
Cherie and Thom have done all the maps for my books for going on twenty years now.
I often say that books are the gifts that keep on giving.
You could say that about the writing profession, too.
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