How come the maps haven been published anywhere?
They don’t photocopy well. • No, seriously. Actually, a map of the Empire of Vond probably should have been included in The Unwilling Warlord, but, frankly, I forgot when I was packing up the manuscript for submission. I did include a map of the Empire of Vond as an insert in the limited edition of The Vondish Ambassador, but once again forgot to send it to the publisher for the regular edition. There’s no map in, say, The Spell of the Black Dagger because the whole story takes place in a single city. Several of the novels really cover fairly small areas. Besides, if I did include an accurate map, you’d see that the map wouldn’t necessarily agree with what the characters in the novel believe. This is because the characters are wrong. Ethsharitic cartography isn’t very good, and the teaching of geography isn’t given a high priority in most families. But hey, just recently, while sorting through old files, I made a discovery — I found the original map I drew in my high school geometry c
