Articles on the Ice Palace

. . . which includes construction and ice cutting photos
here and here.

Ice cutting for the ice palace and FISH!

Today, I was handed a sign by the universe that This Book Must Be Written. I'd say that's really the first time on this particular project.

For those of you who have just joined us (and those who have been following along but the details are getting rather hazy), this book is all about summer and winter magic. The main character, Solveig is the architect who is designing the St. Paul Winter Carnival Ice Palace. She is a Myers-Briggs ITSJ, who doesn't believe in magic in the least when the book starts, but as she'll discover during the course of the story, she actually is quite powerful with winter magic (which is a different magical system than summer magic) because she fell through ice when she was a child--winter magic builds up in lakes during the winter, under the ice. Fish are extremely important to winter magic, as birds are to summer magic.

( ANYWAY, I met with Angela Yender again, going out to Lake Phalen where the blocks are being cut for the ice palace. )

( Then the Universe hit me over the head and said 'Hey, pay attention!' )