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telling your friends i really appreciate it in other news check out this hotness these got released in the uk about a week or two ago and i ve been too tangled up in one thing and another to post up pictures of them yet but honestly they look gorgeous check out those endpapers y all and they re different in the the wise man s fear i haven t managed to get my grubby little hands on one yet but i m hoping it won t be too long and speaking of different covers i stole this off instagram because the purple suede makes me feel like a fancy prince i always love seeing the foreign covers of my books and this one i love even more than usual it s not just because it s my baby and i love it no matter what it s a little that the real reason i love this cover extra much is because nate taylor did this art remember him the guy who did the illustrations what s more i kinda helped him but that as they say is another story and i ve got to get to bed take care of yourselves everyone pat posted in book covers cool news foreign happenings nathan taylor the business of writing by pat 62 responses published november 16 2023 bookstores updates surprises and one last chance as i sit down to write this the new book has been out for a full day and some change launch day went pretty well it felt odd for my last two books i did signing tours and while i don t miss the thought of spending my time in airports and hotel rooms i do miss the thought of getting to meet a lot of you tours are exhausting but the one part i never got tired of was meeting you guys but various things made a tour impractical for me this time around so when my book came out and it felt a little different not unpleasant just not as eventful as if i met up with 500 600 of you in seattle that isn t to say it was a bad day i fit it what promotion i could while helping the boys with their homework and otherwise dadding it up i even took a brief field trip with my kiddos to the local bookstore i really should have straightened out those books before taking this picture it s bothering me oh speaking of which let s take a moment to enjoy some good news in a world that s well let s just say not as good as i think it should be after years of being bookstore less stevens point the town where i live has not just one but two local bookstores point s last bookstore closed years ago it was deeply depressing as i knew deep in my heart that this town would never have another unless i personally intervened in some way to make it happen fast forward to my delight at being proven wrong a couple years back some amazing local folk opened bound to happen books a local bookstore right on main street the fact that they survived their first couple years and covid warms my bitter old heart i stopped by to enjoy the book birthday with my boys not only did the store have a draccus pushie on the front counter and the promotional postcards to give away they had this unknown to me they d collaborated with worldbuilders market to have some a whole shelf of kingkiller related stuff for people who might be showing up for the new book i had no idea that was happening and it made me look very cool in front of my kids unfortunately the boys and i were a little rushed so i didn t have time to take pictures of the other even newer bookstore sojourn booksellers but picture or no i d feel bad not giving them a mention too they have some of my books as well aaand since i m splashing around local bookstore love i d be remiss if i didn t give a shout to a room of one s own down in madison they sent me a picture of displaying not just the new book but the sexy bast calendar too which brings me to my next piece of good news calendars are back from the printer in fact i m guessing a few of you have already gotten yours in the mail if you pre ordered them from worldbuilders or got them in one of the bundles the boys think it s the funniest thing ever and wanted to show off their favorite bast pictures oot had trouble deciding so he picked two launch day wrapped up with a lovely stream with nate where we got to show off the art and celebrate the book finally being out if you missed it you can see the archived video over on my twitch channel for those of you who aren t into streaming there s one thing nate and i announced that i want to let you know about here surprise extra signed books feat nate taylor as i ve already mentioned in a bunch of places the publisher and i worked hard so those of you who pre ordered books could get signed copies i signed a lot of books a very lot enough so that you could get them from your local bookstore or b n or books a million pretty much anywhere you could also pre order it over at worldbuilders market the online store for my charity if you did you could get the same promotional postcard and signed book we really appreciate y all who support the charity and we know you can buy the book online for a discount so we wanted to do something a little extra for you who were willing to pay a little more to help make the world a better place so a month or so ago amazing illustrator and even better friend nate taylor flew out here to stevens point partly to visit but also to sign some books what this means is that if you pre ordered a copy of narrow road from worldbuilders market you got a book that was signed by me and nate and not to put to fine a point on it but there were a lot of you it s hard to show you how many packages they got ready in the weeks leading up to the book s launch because there were too many to get a picture of all at once all told they shipped over 2200 packages on the monday before publication so y all could get your books as quickly as possible child shown for scale i swear our employees are of legal age what s more on publication day y all came storming into the store again and then yesterday too at times like this i ve asked them to focus on getting people s packages shipped out as quickly as possible and they ve been doing a bang up job but since they re focusing on that we haven t had time to switch our two big pre order items over into the non pre order versions yet so congratulations all y all who ordered books calendars or bundles over the last couple days still managed to get the lower prices and the double signed books too the team says they ll be getting items switched over as soon as they re caught up with shipping tomorrow if you manage to order a signed copy of narrow road or any of the bundles containing narrow road before they change it you ll still get the lower pre order price a copy of the book signed by me and nate one of the promo postcards so long as we don t run out of course so if that sounds like something you re interested in or if you re just looking to do some holiday shopping jump in quick because they tell me the pre order items and prices will definitely be going away by the end of tomorrow oof there s more news to share but this blog is already crazy long i ll post the rest up in a day or so folks for now i rest thanks again for being amazing pat posted in cool news geeking out by pat 26 responses published november 14 2023 whyfore art thou an interview with nate taylor well folks it s release day as i write this the narrow road between desires is already hopefully on the shelves of your local bookstore if you re wondering where you can get a copy there s a bunch of options here to celebrate that i m going to share an interview with nate taylor where we talk about the illustrations we worked on for this book as i ve mentioned there s about 45 or so illustrations like this this interview was one of the many things i wrote i was trying and failing to finish my author s note for narrow road as was the case with a lot of my attempts it was a good bit of writing just not a good author s note if you enjoy the interview and would want more of the same i m doing a book launch livestream tonight with nate taylor tonight at 6 00 on my twitch channel here s a graphic for those of you who are more visually oriented or if you want to spread the word on social media and now with no further ado the interview whyfore art thou an interview with nate taylor pat so what s the best part of working with international bestselling author philanthropist and bon vivant patrick rothfuss nate second hand fame i get recognized so long as i m with you but no one hassles me at renn faires pat what s the worst part of working with the world class hot mess megalomaniac sentient dumpster fire known as patrick rothfuss nate it is pretty annoying when the other super villains make a power play against you i get caught in the crossfire and ninja attacks get old real fast pat tell me about it they keep getting sucked into the engines of my private jet okay question time can you describe what your process is as an artist nate absolutely it s like going fishing you craft a perfect lure cast the line and wait for the nibble you struggle with the catch and reel it in only to find out you caught the wrong fish throw it back and try again sometimes it s almost the right fish and sometimes it s an old boot sometimes the boot kicks you in the armpit and jumps back in the water eventually you reel in a glowing omega fish that makes you invulnerable for an hour and it was all worth it pat is is the omega fish a finished illustration nate it is the final form of the illustration supreme a glorious reckoning of science and artistry so yeah i guess it could be called finished pat can you tell us a story about what it s like to work with rothfuss nate i did a full illustration a couple of years back to prepare for this book it was of bast sneaking up on the shepherdess i got friends to pose for reference photos and rendered the illustration in this polished black and white style it was pretty sleek but when we started to really work on things together you said this is first date nate this is very careful and reserved i think we want third date nate get comfortable and show off what you really want to do it was ultimately inspiring but for two full days i laid on my back and wondered what the hell i really wanted to do pat oh god did i really say that nate pretty much you even told me to go overboard a little though not in so many words pat it was an amazing illo though mind if i show it off so folks can see nate sure pat as y all can see this one s from way back before the billion revisions brief spoiler hidden one of which is that i changed the shepherdess into a guy nate i know the two of us have talked about that you wanna explain why here pat i mostly wanted to make it clear that bast is pretty equal opportunity in terms of hot make outs one of which is that i changed the shepherdess into a guy nate i know the two of us have talked about that you wanna explain why here pat i mostly wanted to make it clear that bast is pretty equal opportunity in terms of hot make outs i wrote the first version of the story in just under a month which is lightning fast for me it turned out well all things considered but i didn t get nearly as much time to fine tune as i normally do plus that was nearly ten years ago which is why there was so much for me to improve in this version nate now extensive was the revision pat in terms of the text i probably re wrote about half of the original 20 000 word story then i reorganized a bunch of things added scenes split some action up expanded on the main plot and the main relationship added the embrils by the end the whole thing was about 15 000 words longer nate how long did it all take pat between 4 8 months of pretty solid work depending on how you count it nate so it took 8 times longer to revise than it took to write the original pat like i said it depends on how you count it that includes things like copyedits and page proofs that weren t part of my one month draft it also includes all the art we developed speaking of how many versions of the shepherd do you think we did trying to get it right nate checks the archives five plus two that were more subtle border illustrations pat oof and that s not counting the different drafts and tweaks then after everything we skip it to focus on other images nate this one was my favorite concept i think pat seriously though why do you keep doing this to yourself nate seriously then and this is something i ve told other artists and writers who have asked me similar questions pat helps me do my best work it s easy for me to fall victim to my own need for speed and call a piece finished just because the shading looks nice you are good at pushing the details and the thought behind each choice in the image until it s the best possible version of itself pat is there an illustration we abandoned you really wish we could have made work nate so many we cut at least 18 illustrations for one reason or another i think the one i miss the most was a small portrait of crazy martin i love that little portrait of the hulking madman pat i love doing character design with you but yeah i worried it would take too long plus martin doesn t actually show up in the book i know you did 3 4 versions of him though wanna show one off nate sure pat looking at this again i don t know what worries me more the fact that it looks a lot like me or the fact that it looks a lot like me but younger and probably more attractive which illustration do you think changed the most while we were revising things nate we spent a lot of time on kostrel dancing we tried bast facing toward us bast facing away kostrel facing toward and away bast facing away but head turned toward us even after we figured all that out we did so many versions of kostrel s angry face nate there were so many versions of the different embrils too and the lightning tree itself you know what i think the axe in the stump was the only one i nailed on my first pass pat actually i made us go back to that because i was worried the laces on the neck of his shirt hanging off it might interfere with visual continuity nate true one change that still puts it way ahead of the curve pat it also provides further proof that i am in fact a monster nate my turn for questions why do you keep doing this to me i mean what s your favorite part of working with nate taylor pat i could go on and on i ll keep it to three things though you have never once choked me even though i m always asking for another another another another revision you ve never even gotten notably salty when i explain what i imagine for an illustration or what i m hoping to change or tweak in the next draft you for real understand what i mean almost every time that s so rare when you add some twist or detail it s not just something that fits not just something i love it s usually something i wish i would have thought of first i feel guilty knowing people tend to assume the clever idea in one of the pictures is mine when the truth is it s actually the pure child of your beautiful brain nate i feel my head swelling so help me keep an even keel w...