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Leena Hannonen Fine Art

COLOR BEFORE RESPONDING

All the things that piss me off. Turns out, they piss you off too.

Someone is chewing. The meeting should have been an email. The printer has jammed again. Someone is on speakerphone in public. Your package has been “three stops away” for four hours. And apparently, you’re the one who needs to calm down. So I made a book about it.

COLOR BEFORE RESPONDING is for those moments when saying exactly what you’re thinking is probably a terrible idea.

This isn’t just a coloring book. Each of the 30 everyday breaking points starts with a place to document the offense: who’s responsible, what happened, how pissed off you actually are, and—most importantly—what you really want to say. Then turn the page.

There’s a full-page illustration inspired by the situation waiting for you to color while you reconsider whether that text, email, comment, or beautifully worded insult really needs to be sent.

Maybe you’ll calm down. Maybe you won’t. But at least you colored something.

WRITE IT. COLOR IT. GET OVER IT.

64 pages · 30 annoyances · Full-page illustrations
Paperback · $12.99

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Not Your Usual Coloring Book

Every illustration starts with something painfully familiar: the leaf blower, the printer jam, the speakerphone, the package that is allegedly “three stops away.”

Write about it on one page.
Color it on the other.

Cheaper than therapy.
Considerably safer than replying.