Hey, Rob!

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Originally posted by Rob Kamphausen:
where did the name come from? ("northwood saga," not "marc")
It was just something I came up with. I liked the sound of it.

Purely by accident and after the fact, I learned about this thing called Operation: Northwoods, which was evidently a real project by the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff in the early 1960s to find an excuse to go to war with Cuba, including but not limited to conducting acts of terror against U.S. citizens and maybe also assassinating a sitting president. If I had called the book "Water's Gate Saga," I couldn't be happier, because the subtext of the book is VERY political, but I think I've hidden my tracks pretty well. At the risk of getting myself hauled off to Guantanamo, I think I can share that the main bad guy and his cronies are shades of the last couple U.S. administrations.

My hope is that people googling for Northwood wind up finding links to Project: Northwoods, since evidently we can't rely on our national media to do their job; but, as I say, this is just a happy accident.

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and whats the current schedule? when do you find out about artists and such? will you actually meet and/or work (directly) with the artist when the time comes?
Alas, there is no schedule yet. Epic seems to be taking its time. In the interim, I'm looking at some pencils, so if anyone is interested in drawing elves and dwarfs, they should let me know sooner rather than later.

I'll work directly with the artists (and, sure, we could meet up if we live close enough), I'll pick them myself from a pool of preapproved candidates or help get unapproved folks approved, and in fact I'll be their boss. The writer acts as writer/editor on Epic books. I'm planning on letting the artists have a lot of control. I have a few suggestions for things that need to be included for the sake of the story, but other than that I'm going to rely on the artists to design the world.