I first heard of Chouette as a submission that an editor was interested in pursuing. Art usually enters the equation after a book has been acquired, but one of the changes that the pandemic brought was that the meeting where editors pitch prospective books became a meeting that the whole team attended. I remember that the strange and compelling premise caught my attention more than almost any other submission discussed in those meetings; I was excited to hear that we would be publishing it and then, several months later, that I would get to design it.