What? More Drawings?

Yeppers. I have to draw five more pictures for the upcoming book, The Cabins of Wilsonia.

5 more

But WHY??

When books are printed, they need to have their total number of pages divisible by 16. (That means 8 pieces of paper, in case you were getting confused.)

My book had 164 pages, 4 short. I thought it was no big deal – just put a little page here and another one there.

Wrong.

The design is locked up with chapter headings designed just so. One added page, and everything shifts from the one side to the other, and it looks wrong there, because it was very very carefully designed to fit the side it is on.

I did a tally of cabins per street from looking at a map and then counted the numbers of pages per street. Alta didn’t have quite enough pages for the number of cabins, so I am adding two more drawings and rearranging the others to fill. President’s Lane also didn’t have enough pages for the number of cabins, so I have three more to draw for that chapter.

pencil cabin drawing“Unknown Dog on Porch”, sold

Good, bad, or indifferent, it is now necessary to put down the computer and pick up my pencils.

Will I ever be finished with this book??