Poppas is at the printers, rolling around in hot ink.

We've been comparatively hush-hush about Poppas. Not for any particularly good reason, just that we've been a focused machine of editing and designing these past couple of months.

Editorially this thing is tight. Design wise this is probably the most playful I've gotten with any of our books. Gone are the tired 'ole serif'd titles! Gone is the Minion! Gone is the hyper-small size!

What's in? A collection of beautiful Japanese papers. Professional attention to book-binding and production. A giant, commercially unmarred original piece of artwork from Leslie Staub. Fedra Sans. Jannon Moderne. A new, improved, innovative take on the obi (belly band).

It's exciting, and I'm over here holding my breath waiting for the finished product to roll hot and steamy off the presses. It's scheduled to be in my humidity soaked possession in a little over a week.

In the meantime I'm distracting my 8-year-old-can't-wait-for-christmas like self by putting together the Poppas sub-site for chinmusicpress.com. That should hopefully be up and running within a week or so.

I designed Do You Know out in the open, naked for all to see. And while fun, it was a touch awkward and made the whole design process a little more self-concious than I'd like it to be. So Poppas was done privately, and I'll be going back over the design publicly. Which is probably the much more sensible way of doing this sort of thing.