The first section of Anasazi’s Road will be a novella titled Anasazi’s Rubicon. A consistent artistic conceit of the book is that each short story or novella chapter is named for a standard U.S. road sign. Facing the opening page of the story or chapter will be an illustration featuring a character prominent in that part of the narrative and the road sign for which it is named.

The sign artwork was created in Adobe Illustrator using the Federal Highway Administration’s official specifications, then exported to Adobe Photoshop for additional work to make them look more like real objects. All are to scale and range from an eighteen-by-thirty-six-inch rectangle (for End Road Work) to a forty-eight-inch square (for Gas Food Lodging Information). Multiple sizes, with individual measurements for each, are approved for most of the signs, and there are guidelines for choosing the best size to match a given set of conditions. End Road Work, all parking-related signs, and the white-on-blue services sign are standardized on a single size each, the last because it is intended for use on freeways, where pavement width and traffic speeds require large signs readable from considerable distances.