Evolution of a book title + cover

A peek behind the curtain of The Understory, a cover reveal, and preorder button!

I always knew the book would be called The Understory.¹ Here’s why.

The subtitle, however, felt a bit more elusive. Because I was essentially writing a book full of shorter notes on nature and grief, I wanted to do Field Notes on Grief from the Forest Floor, but then the book became about something more than grief. And then the inimitable Sarah Bessey's Field Notes announced the …