Never judge a book by its cover. But who says you can't change it?

Mine is all about rules. Now I'm inviting people to break them.

When Humanizing Rules was published, I had surprisingly little say over what went on the cover.

Publishers have rules, too. Which is rather ironic, given the subject of the book.

So I've decided to give readers something I didn't have; control.

I wanted to create my own cover. But then I realised that if you take off the dust jacket, there's a blank canvas just waiting to be used.

I've created a set of stickers that people can use to customise their own copies of the book. But the stickers aren't really the point. They're just a spark. A way of giving people permission to do something they might otherwise feel they shouldn't.

Change the cover. Write on it. Draw on it. Graffiti it. Or ignore the stickers altogether. Your book, your choice.

And that's rather the point. We often constrain people's behaviour without even realising we're doing it. Sometimes all it takes to change that is to make it clear that they're allowed to do something different.

The first batch has arrived. I'll share more about the project in a video soon.

And I'm really excited to see what people do when they're explicitly given permission to break the rules.