*Blows Dust Out of Cartridge*

Hello friends! This page has long been a quiet placeholder, but that will be shaking up soon. Expect the information here to be at least as current as the current book website (www.connorsb.com/newtopia)  by the end of this week.

The writing is on its third draft, and I've moved into print pre-production. I'm becoming newly familiar with Affinity thanks to my good friend Scott, though I've been doing layout since late middle school when I was laying out a printed school newsletter. You'll find attached some sample images of the very first layout import, just focused on getting the header2s to the top of each page as intended, with a hand-drawn edge index badge. These are going to be so cool. The book prints full bleed, so as the text progresses from District 1: The Central Mountains to District 6: The Outer Coast,  the tab moves down the page, forming a waterfall of blocks to appear along the edge, like a dictionary or geographical atlas would.

Formally, what is the Field Guide to Newtopia? Victorian writers would classify it as a gazetteer, a geographical dictionary, or, in regular human words, a region-by-region primer, with maps, statistics, locations to visit, and remarks on many topics. Americans might be familair with the American Guide Series, a state-by-state set of books extolling the virtues of each region, compiled by the WPA's Federal Writer's Project.  

A Field Guide to Newtopia focuses on six categories: flora, fauna, geology, ritual, rumors, and titansign. (Titansign? Each region is the environment for its own enormous Titans of the Land, in the style of Dune's sandworms or the estimable Godzilla and his fellow kaiju.)

The Guide covers all 36 regions that surround the secret city at the heart of the world, a land area around 500 miles in diameter.  This enormous hexagon of Big Hexes is inscribed on the pentagonal face of a dodecahedron planetoid floating in the darkest, furthest depths of the Aetheric Ocean beyond our reality.

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Exciting times lay ahead! I'm so honored to be able to bring this strange, enormous world to you all.