About its genre: Muzakio is a picture book that aspires to serious literature per its designed capacity to entertain the child within us all.

Status: Muzakio is roughly 75% complete. I am now focused primarily on developing the work's illustrations. Please note that most of them will transition, eventually, from monochromatic to full color. However, pages 21 through 35 may remain monochromatic... I hesitantly suggest this alteration of the norm to help in conveying the advent of Amelia's dream state. Full color illustrations might then resume on pages 36 through 54. They would do this as a means of suggesting how Amelia has begun then to discover a better understanding of her problem, and thus of her character's true colors.

'Muzakio' will be the first in a series of similar comparison-type books. This series' second work will delve into the mythological conflict that might be said to exist between 'clean' and 'dirty'. This similarly illustrated work will be constructed around an imaginative and pristine ecosystem that is being threatened… and thus suggestively—polluted.

The conductor, Muzakio, and the band would adapt themselves to the premise of this next book by following Amelia—in an imaginative sense—on a vacation out of the city and into the wilderness.