{"id":1013,"date":"2012-10-21T21:12:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T21:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomastaylor-author.com\/?p=1013"},"modified":"2022-01-13T12:07:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T12:07:29","slug":"a-book-that-never-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/a-book-that-never-was\/","title":{"rendered":"A Book That Never Was"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1955 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Elves-1024x1018-1-300x298.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Elves-1024x1018-1-300x298.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Elves-1024x1018-1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Elves-1024x1018-1-768x764.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Elves-1024x1018-1-100x100.jpg 100w, http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Elves-1024x1018-1-140x140.jpg 140w, http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Elves-1024x1018-1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>A strange thing happened today. I opened my front door to find an A3 reinforced envelope leaning against it. Opening it I discovered some rough sketches and a colour sample for a version of <em>The Elves and the Shoemaker<\/em>I never illustrated, that I can&#8217;t even remember roughing out. It&#8217;s only \u2013 and this is bizarre\u00a0\u2013 through recognising the handwriting of the notes on the roughs that I have even been able to work out who the publisher is. This book was never made, and I cannot even remember why.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s hard to say how this has left me feeling. The date on the sample is 2001, so not so long ago, and yet it feels like I&#8217;m looking at work produced by someone else. I had a whole other career that has been and gone and which means nothing now. Perhaps I was upset that this book never got made. Maybe there were meetings about it I even went to and a disappointed author, and who knows what beside. Did my agent intervene? Was the publisher bought out?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1957 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/elves1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1575\" height=\"1063\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/elves1.jpg 1575w, http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/elves1-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/elves1-1024x691.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/elves1-768x518.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/elves1-1536x1037.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/elves1-400x269.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1575px) 100vw, 1575px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Standing on my doorstep, feeling wistful, I was tempted to just reseal the envelope and add it to the pile of prehistoric work I&#8217;ll probably never look at again. But I&#8217;m leaving a little glimpse of it here first. There&#8217;s a lesson in all this somewhere. If only I can work out what it is\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A strange thing happened today. I opened my front door to find an A3 reinforced envelope leaning against it. 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