Author Scott Westerfeld gave a talk on the history behind his Leviathan stories, showing illustrations from the book and talking about illustrated books generally.
He'd show a picture such as this
and talk about the back and forth conversation between himself and illustrator Keith Thompson about what was in the picture and how it reflected or didn't what was going on in the story or what might be happening next.
I always assumed that the author would just write the tale and the illustrator would go back and illustrate scenes of interest. I wouldn't have guessed the level of storytelling collaboration involved. Fascinating process!
Scott is meeting soon with the folks at Wizards of the Coast to produce a Steampunk card game. The crowd was very interested!
He is also meeting with a company in Los Angeles about the effects for transforming faces and figures for an Uglies movie.
Great things ahead.
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