It is hard to organize a book into a pleasantly flowing story. Especially with over two hundred images of my art! I printed the spreadsheet of images and associated writing, cut it up, and placed each part on a three-foot, one meter high piece of card-stock paper with removable glue. I found it much easier to envision the book when I can see everything at once and move it with my hands. I can move pieces according to the writing and the image themes, colors, subject matter, flow, and many other considerations. At the end, I would have had a book well over three hundred pages! That is too big for the table top art book that I envision, and too pricey. Instead, I will be breaking it up into four books! The first one will be out in mid-2026. The theme is Meaning, since feathers have so much symbology for people around the world. The second one will be about Flight. The third about Biology, and for fourth about my Art process.
My first book, Feathers Form and Function has been out of print for two years and I am thinking of having a small run made so they will be available again. What do you think?