The cover had to evoke something from the trilogy but also speak to the fact that we were no longer in the realm of the young child. At the same time, Return needed to pay homage to the book’s predecessors and immediately feel a bit more weighty. For one, this third part of the trilogy needed to stand on its own, apart from the story it was ending. In Return, I needed the design of the book to support what I had set out to do. I wanted to make sure that if we did get an offer, if would be from a publisher that was serious about the details of book making! Even when I pitched Journey years ago, I decided to build a cloth-bound, hand-stitched dummy. One of my favorite parts of making books is figuring out the final bits of design for the dust jacket, the endpapers, and the book’s cover.
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