She’s been a champion for us, along with our agent. “When we brought The Night Gardener, Lizzy was the first to see it and respond to it and she brought it to the editor at the time. “It’s an appeal to philosophical and intellectual humility.”Įditor Justin Chanda and art director Lizzy Bromley helped clarify and strengthen the story. “We wanted to suggest the Age of Reason,” Eric said. A grasshopper holds a magnifying glass up to the marble. A rhinoceros beetle wears a black top hat. The insect characters are portrayed naturalistically, but they’re dressed as Victorian spectators. It’s their way of providing an explanation for an unsolvable mystery.” Their explanations for it speak to their own wishes and perceptions. “The insects occupy Flatland, and when they encounter this object from another dimension, they don’t have anything way to understand it. “It’s like Flatland,” he went on, referring to Edwin Abbott’s 1884 fantasy novella about a two-dimensional world. “The spider takes the marble and starts charging admission and he loses all his friends.” But there’s more going on. The one on the cover was chosen from their collection. “ was a t-shirt design of a marble that had fallen into a garden.” The siblings collect vintage marbles themselves, and they’d been considering writing a story about a marble. It’s like a well of ideas that we can draw from,” Terry said. “All of our books start as standalone images.
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