Hi, Friends. :D I need your help!
As you know, I'll be publishing my first novel The Elementalist: Rise of Hara pretty soon. This fall, in fact. Since this story is set in another world, it helps to have a map to provide readers with more context. So...I'm commissioning a map for my novel!
All of the submissions draw from the story's 1940s inspiration, but which one do you think would look best in a fantasy novel?
Read more about my story below then vote on the submissions using star ratings.
(The final map in the book itself will be in black and white, though there is a color version of one that I'm also considering to use on my website. None of these are necessarily the final version, as I can still make minor changes.)
I have 14 days (until 5/19/19) to make a decision. I will probably decide before then, so vote now while you still can!
BOOK DESCRIPTION:
Aviatrix, elementalist, emelesiac, spy…not exactly what Voi Román went to university for.
This academic dropout and almost-valedictorian thinks she has the worst of it: emelesia. A rare, incurable condition that will soon confine her life to a mental asylum. That is until a government agent named Ron Callahan shows up claiming he can get Voi a cure after all... If she commits espionage.
Running on her last drop of optimism, Voi caves into coercion. Before long, she learns there's a mystical side to her condition when the so-called “cure” unleashes elemental talents. Agent Callahan buries his own secrets beneath a murky past and a guarded heart, not to mention his uncanny ability to predict Voi’s whereabouts.
Keen to overthrow the tyranny of governmental eyes, Voi embarks on a whirlwind of adventure from occult pseudoscience and experimental technology to aerial espionage and international intrigue. Suddenly, everything changes when psychic revolutionaries from a foreign liberation movement threaten Voi's life and challenge her beliefs. Seeking answers, she takes a leap of faith into the unknown—relying on supernatural instinct to uncover the truth as a terrorist plot flourishes abroad.
Telling right from wrong has never been harder, but this much she knows: emelesia was an outright lie, and her government may be as suspect as the enemy. Will the aviatrix fly by the seat of her pants through a storm of esoteric politics and keep her moral compass intact, or does she risk losing a part of herself? If not her life, then certainly her sanity.