Dingbat heaven
One of the many glorious things about working with the Razorbill team at Penguin is that they got Chris Grassi to design special dingbats just for the Magic or Madness trilogy. Cute little suns for the Sydney parts:

and snowflakes

for the New York City sections.
Don’t they make you happy? They make me happy!
And I love that you can tell where the action takes place just by looking at the dingbats. Little sun? Summery Sydney. Snowflake? Wintry New York.
And that is why I write books, so I can have cool dingbats. And so I can spend a morning preparing a list for Chris Grassi of which chapters in Magic’s Child have which dingbats.
Sometimes I love my job so much I could explode in a puff of iridescent, nacreous, jasmine-fragrant rainbows.
Posted by Justine at 1:34, 15 September 2006 under Magic or Madness trilogy, Publishing business | 6 Comments »

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Rebecca Says:
those are cool.
September 15th, 2006 at 1:42 am
margo Says:
At least those rainbows aren’t nacreous.:)
September 15th, 2006 at 2:17 am
3. Justine Says:
They are now . . .
September 15th, 2006 at 2:18 am
cecil Says:
looking good! looking real good!
September 15th, 2006 at 4:00 am
Anna Says:
One of my favorite parts about books are seeing what little dingbats are unique to them. I can’t wait to see those in the books!!
September 15th, 2006 at 9:59 pm
Little Willow Says:
Cute.
September 15th, 2006 at 11:18 pm