Mrs. Collins' boundless curiosity brings to her unusual and interesting design commissions. FLOOD BOOK, as it is named, is a post-Katrina rant—or repetitive chant—with rhyming verse written in Yat which is a local, New Orleanian dialect. Its a little book, the size of a short novella, with compelling illustrations and simple, classical type. The author is Max Cafard, a lifelong inhabitant of the Island of New Orleans, he is a surre(gion)alist writer and pre-ancientist philosopher. He is the author of "The Surre(gion)alist Manifesto and Other Writings" (Exquisite Corpse, 2004) and many other works. His writings have appeared in Exquisite Corpse, Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed, The Fifth Estate, and other questionable publications.

At the TypeCon typography conference in Atlanta in 2009, Mrs. Collins talked about FLOOD BOOK and notions of readable text in south Louisiana.

FLOOD BOOK was recently published in Typeface: Classic Typography for Contemporary Design by Tamye Riggs.