I was excited to be hired to create Tor.com Publishing’s very first fantasy world map, especially since the novella, The Drowning Eyes, that the map illuminates isn’t a traditional fantasy setting of elves and dragons and magic. (Well, it does have magic.) As the book’s editor, Carl Engle-Laird explained, The Drowning Eyes is actually based on an island in a Caribbean style-setting; a geography that we’re not accustomed to seeing in continent-spanning fantasy maps.

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