The making

The making, quietly described.

A book made for forty years, not four.

The book.

A sundayfawn book is an 8.5×11 hardcover storybook, matte cover, perfect-bound. Thirty-six pages. Heavier in the hand than a trade picture book, and that weight is the point.

The writing.

Juno writes the manuscript from the brief. Not a template with the name dropped in — the manuscript is written for one named reader, working from the specifics the giver supplied. The names, the household, the small repeated things.

The illustration.

Every spread is illustrated for that one book. Not pulled from a library, not pre-painted, not re-used. The illustrations respond to the manuscript, the named reader, and the cast on the page.

The cover.

The cover is matte, hardcover, with the reader’s name on the front. There is a colophon at the back. The book ships in a plain box — nothing extra, no slipcase, no twine. About two weeks, start to finish.

One edition. The press is then reset.

The press, indexed

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