A unique touch to scene breaks

Those of you familiar with my story "In Dangerous Waters" recall that my primary character, Mike, carried his father’s rank emblem with him in his pocket at all times. The emblem, a brass oak leaf, is used as the rank symbol for Navy Lieutenant Commanders, and for Army, Air Force and Marine Corps Majors. Mike’s reliance on the emblem as a token of his father’s guidance made it a likely candidate for the novel to replace the 3-dot ellipsis symbol often used by others to denote a scene break. It might also be used as a publisher’s icon on the book’s spine. Pete, my publication coach, was able to craft the emblem and size it suitably for the scene breaks in the final manuscript.