Post by LoganTheGeshrat on May 2, 2013 3:54:59 GMT -5
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This thread will have some other stuff in it so I didn't want to put it in with the Dynasty of Dreamers thread we already have. It also helps liven up the forum some more.
So, Clive started an official Abarat Facebook page and it's (I'm not entirely sure if it's exclusively him that runs it) been posting a lot. Clive seems to like Facebook a lot and between the Abarat page, the official Clive page, and the odd official "Lament Configuration" page (which seems to be promising some interesting news soonish), there's a lot of Barker-related stuff on my Facebook wall.
So what's been happening Abarat-wise? Well, the page posts a lot of random fan work like the image up top, but it's also posted some more interesting stuff, namely status updates on Book IV such as this one:
"I've started one of my favourite parts of creating each of the ABARAT books.
The structure of this book is now fixed .It 's taken thirteen months,starting immediately after I came out of hospital and working every day since to finish this draft,but it's done.
Now I'm about to re-draft the 130,000 I've written in the last thirteen months,steadily polishing it,word by word ,phrase by phrase,idea by idea.
And as I go I get to have fun designing the various beasts and beings,skies,cities and magical sights that did not yet already exist in the oil paintings I have painted for use in these last two books.
It would be much more convenient,of course, if my imagination had been prophetic enough to provide me with exactly what I needed ,without redundancies. But it never works that way. Often a design I painted with a certain character in mind simply fails to fit the tale I am now telling.So I have to create something new.
It's not the end of the world. Ha ! No,it truly isn't.
It's the continuing construction of a new one,in words and paint.
I still have two more drafts and forty oil paintings to go before the fourth book of ABARAT is delivered.
But I promise you I will keep a diary of entries like this as I go, so that henceforth you can follow the road I'm taking to bring ABARAT IV: THE PRICE OF DREAMS,home."
And some pictures too:
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So obviously Clive's working very hard on Book 4 and he's going to move right on to Book 5 after that, so that's nice. He's also been selling some old sketches of Abarat characters for a....considerable price at his official shop:
www.realclivebarker.com/shop/art/original/cb60-carrion-concept-sketch-detail
www.realclivebarker.com/shop/art/original/cb67-carrion-in-the-shadows-original-art-detail
www.realclivebarker.com/shop/art/original/cb68-letheo-original-art-detail
www.realclivebarker.com/shop/art/original/cb69-mater-motely-original-art-detail
But the most interesting piece of information by far is one that was just posted:
"Stay tuned on May 9th there's going to be a special announcement in regards to the Abarat Books!"
Now, this is very interesting because in my opinion it's unlikely to be either an update on book 4 (because we know he has two more drafts of it left) and it's also unlikely to be the reveal of the American Absolute Midnight paperback cover (because who cares, and because the page is international). So I'm unsure of what it's going to be. A collection? Those Abaratian tarot cards Clive said he was working on awhile back being put up for sale? Whatever it is we'll find out in a week.
This thread will have some other stuff in it so I didn't want to put it in with the Dynasty of Dreamers thread we already have. It also helps liven up the forum some more.
So, Clive started an official Abarat Facebook page and it's (I'm not entirely sure if it's exclusively him that runs it) been posting a lot. Clive seems to like Facebook a lot and between the Abarat page, the official Clive page, and the odd official "Lament Configuration" page (which seems to be promising some interesting news soonish), there's a lot of Barker-related stuff on my Facebook wall.
So what's been happening Abarat-wise? Well, the page posts a lot of random fan work like the image up top, but it's also posted some more interesting stuff, namely status updates on Book IV such as this one:
"I've started one of my favourite parts of creating each of the ABARAT books.
The structure of this book is now fixed .It 's taken thirteen months,starting immediately after I came out of hospital and working every day since to finish this draft,but it's done.
Now I'm about to re-draft the 130,000 I've written in the last thirteen months,steadily polishing it,word by word ,phrase by phrase,idea by idea.
And as I go I get to have fun designing the various beasts and beings,skies,cities and magical sights that did not yet already exist in the oil paintings I have painted for use in these last two books.
It would be much more convenient,of course, if my imagination had been prophetic enough to provide me with exactly what I needed ,without redundancies. But it never works that way. Often a design I painted with a certain character in mind simply fails to fit the tale I am now telling.So I have to create something new.
It's not the end of the world. Ha ! No,it truly isn't.
It's the continuing construction of a new one,in words and paint.
I still have two more drafts and forty oil paintings to go before the fourth book of ABARAT is delivered.
But I promise you I will keep a diary of entries like this as I go, so that henceforth you can follow the road I'm taking to bring ABARAT IV: THE PRICE OF DREAMS,home."
And some pictures too:
fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/430723_300468740061850_314447284_n.jpg
So obviously Clive's working very hard on Book 4 and he's going to move right on to Book 5 after that, so that's nice. He's also been selling some old sketches of Abarat characters for a....considerable price at his official shop:
www.realclivebarker.com/shop/art/original/cb60-carrion-concept-sketch-detail
www.realclivebarker.com/shop/art/original/cb67-carrion-in-the-shadows-original-art-detail
www.realclivebarker.com/shop/art/original/cb68-letheo-original-art-detail
www.realclivebarker.com/shop/art/original/cb69-mater-motely-original-art-detail
But the most interesting piece of information by far is one that was just posted:
"Stay tuned on May 9th there's going to be a special announcement in regards to the Abarat Books!"
Now, this is very interesting because in my opinion it's unlikely to be either an update on book 4 (because we know he has two more drafts of it left) and it's also unlikely to be the reveal of the American Absolute Midnight paperback cover (because who cares, and because the page is international). So I'm unsure of what it's going to be. A collection? Those Abaratian tarot cards Clive said he was working on awhile back being put up for sale? Whatever it is we'll find out in a week.