Edition Two · artwork edition · private preview
Nemur's Conspiracy
The (mostly) True Story of Nemur E. Moo
Twenty-six files arrived. Twenty-three of them are wordless pictures. So this edition shows what actually exists — the plates, in a reconstructed order, animated and page-turned — and leaves a marked, empty space on every spread where Liz's words belong.
Illustration from the supplied files (IMG_6716). Slow zoom is a generated web animation, not part of the original art.
Say it plainly
Edition Two is the artwork edition. The read-along arrives when Liz supplies the manuscript text.
Of the 26 files supplied for the second edition, only three carry any typeset words at all: the factual endnote, the title/back-cover card, and the hand-lettering drawn inside one of the desk illustrations. There are zero interior story pages with narrative text. The story's words are not in these files.
Nothing on this page tries to fill that in. No substitute prose has been written, no narration has been invented, and no sentence anywhere on this page is presented as Liz's. When she sends the manuscript, every empty slot below has a place ready for it and the read-along can be built on top.
Waiting for Liz's words
This is the marker used on every spread. Wherever you see it, the manuscript text for that spread has not been supplied and has deliberately not been guessed at.
Two editions, side by side
Edition 1 is unchanged and still works exactly as it did. Edition 2 is additive — it sits alongside, it does not replace.
Credit, and an open question
Giavanna Loya illustrated the published book
Nemur's Conspiracy: The (Mostly) True Story of Nemur E. Moo. — Elizabeth Felton and Giavanna Loya, May 2023, 32 pages, ISBN 9798395949769. Giavanna Loya is the credited illustrator of that published edition.
Open question — not an assigned credit
The 26 plates supplied for Edition Two have not been individually attributed. They mix at least four incompatible media — traditional watercolour, photoreal digital painting, Pixar-style 3D CGI and flat retro vector cartoon — and no illustrator credit page came with the set. This page therefore does not state who made which plate. That is a question for Liz to answer, and the credit line here will be corrected to whatever she confirms.
Also awaiting sign-off
Six plates are recognisable likenesses of Liz herself, painted rather than photographed (IMG_6714, 6716, 6717, 6722, 6729, 6737). They are shown here because they are illustrations, but they are flagged for her sign-off before anything is published.
Two files are held back entirely and appear nowhere on this page — see the back cover section below.
The artwork edition
Turn the plates
Use the buttons, the dots, or the left and right arrow keys once the viewer has focus. Every plate carries a plain description of what the picture shows — that is a catalogue description of the artwork, never a stand-in for the story.
Keyboard: left and right arrow keys turn plates, Home and End jump to the first and last.
Front matter
Cover candidate
IMG_6722
What the picture shows — catalogue description, not story text
Waiting for Liz's words
No manuscript text was supplied for this spread. Nothing has been written in its place.
Why this plate sits here
Back matter · IMG_6709
The author's endnote, set as real text
This is the only continuous prose anywhere in the 26 files. It is reproduced below exactly as printed, and it is selectable, searchable, resizable text rather than a picture of text.
Did you know a group of lemurs is called a conspiracy? They call to each other when out of sight with what sounds like a long "moo."Nemur the lemur" is a ring- tailed lemur who resides at Safari Bob's in Lantana Florida. The name "Nemur was derived from baby talk. (Lemur/Nemur) "E" is her middle initial for "Elizabeth," her owner and "Moo," is a reference to the sound she makes when calling to both her human and lemur family. "Acquired as a singleton, she was given several lemur stuffed animals to cuddle with. Owner Elizabeth Felton noticed the "dollies" would be positioned in such a way they often appeared to be frozen mid play at various times. She thought it was reminiscent of childhood "invisible friends." Bindy was brought in as a companion for Nemur at a year old. She abandoned playing with her dollies shortly after his arrival. The two continue to live at Safari Bob's, where their conspiracy is expected to grow.
Spelling and punctuation are the author's own
Reproduced exactly as printed, with nothing corrected: the double spaces in “out of sight” and “to the sound”, the missing space after “moo.”, the unclosed quote marks, and “Lantana Florida” without a comma. These are Liz's, not typos to be fixed by anyone else. If she wants them changed, she changes them.
About the author · candidate plates
The author pages, still unchosen
Several plates in the set are author portraits rather than story beats. Any one of them could carry the about-the-author page. None has been chosen — they are laid out here so Liz can pick.
Generated animation, silent and looping, built from the watercolour plate IMG_6714. It is an animation of an illustration — not footage of anyone.
Back cover held
Not displayed pending Liz's sign-off
Consent hold
Two files are deliberately not on this page
The back cover file contains an unretouched photograph of a real, identifiable person — Liz — holding a real lemur. A second file in the set is a painted rendering of that same photograph, and the likeness is unmistakable. Consent to publish either one has not been confirmed.
So neither is displayed here. Not full size, not as a thumbnail, not blurred, not behind a click. They are not referenced by any image tag on this page at all. The slot stays empty until she says otherwise, and then it fills in one edit.
The only thing carried over from the back cover is its typeset subtitle, transcribed from a photograph of the printed back cover: The (mostly) True Story of Nemur E. Moo — set as two centred lines, with a lower-case “mostly” and a full stop after “E”, exactly as the printed book sets it. The Amazon listing capitalises it as “(Mostly)”; where the two disagree this page follows the printed cover.
Housekeeping
Alternate takes, not extra pages
Six pairs in the set are the same scene twice. The sequence above uses the more finished take of each pair; the alternates are parked here so nothing supplied goes missing. Counting pairs as one, the set holds roughly 17 distinct scenes, not 26.
Production truth for Edition Two
What is real on this page
- Every picture here is a file Liz supplied. Nothing is generated art, and nothing has been redrawn.
- The plates have been cropped to remove the phone screenshot letterboxing and resized for the web. No image has been retouched, recoloured or altered.
- The slow zooms, the page-turn transitions and the looping author animation are web animations added on top of the still artwork. They are labelled wherever they appear.
- The endnote is the only prose in the set and is reproduced verbatim. Nothing else on this page is presented as Liz's writing.
- The page order is a reconstruction, clearly labelled as a hypothesis on every plate.
- No preference on this page is stored. Everything resets when the tab closes — this visit only, no account, no device storage, nothing transmitted.
What unlocks next
One file — the manuscript — turns this from an artwork edition into the read-along. The slots are already cut to size. Nothing else is blocking it.