Overview
I am a book and publications designer.
I specialize in cover design but I also have comprehensive experience in black and white and color interior/text design as well as magazine page layout and full color books such as cookbooks and fine art catalogs.
I have worked with the University of South Carolina Press on numerous exciting projects including a series of fiction edited by the late great Pat Conroy (Story River Books). I designed the cover of an anthology of self-titled “Grit Lit” edited by Brian Carpenter and Tom Franklin and a cover for the expanded edition of one of George Singleton’s early novels, “Why Dogs Chase Cars.”
I enjoy crafting clever cover designs combining photography, typography and sometimes illustration. I would self-describe my style as sophisticated with a splash of humor or whimsy. I enjoy bringing the essence of a book to life visually.
I specialize in cover design but I also have comprehensive experience in black and white and color interior/text design as well as magazine page layout and full color books such as cookbooks and fine art catalogs.
I have worked with the University of South Carolina Press on numerous exciting projects including a series of fiction edited by the late great Pat Conroy (Story River Books). I designed the cover of an anthology of self-titled “Grit Lit” edited by Brian Carpenter and Tom Franklin and a cover for the expanded edition of one of George Singleton’s early novels, “Why Dogs Chase Cars.”
I enjoy crafting clever cover designs combining photography, typography and sometimes illustration. I would self-describe my style as sophisticated with a splash of humor or whimsy. I enjoy bringing the essence of a book to life visually.
Services
Fiction
Anthologies
Historical Fiction
Poetry
Short Story
Non-Fiction
Biographies & Memoirs
Health & Wellbeing
Parenting & Families
Photography
Languages
English
Work experience
University of South Carolina Communications and Marketing
Mar, 2015 —
Present
I design the alumni magazine and other publications for the University of South Carolina.
The University of South Carolina Press
Jul, 2003 —
Mar, 2015
(over 11 years)
Book cover and interior design for novels, short stories, historical fiction and scholarly monographs; cover and interior design for fine art books, cookbooks
Portfolio
In Southern Perspectives on the Queer Movement: Committed to Home, Sheila R. Morris has collected essays by South Carolinians who explore their gay identities and activism from the emergence o... read more
Cover Design
Take eighty-seven ambrosial recipes designed for the needs and appetites of everyday cooks, leaven with delectable anecdotes about the Greek lifestyle, then pepper with revealing scientific in... read more
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Book Interior Design
Accomplished South Carolina storyteller George Singleton has been called "the unchallenged king of the comic southern short story" by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "a breakthrough writer y... read more
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In this study of Solomon and his place in the larger consciousness of Israel, Walter Brueggemann considers what Old Testament narratives regarding David's heir reveal about the aspirations and... read more
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In this concise but pointed volume of ruminations on writers, literary icon Louis Auchincloss considers the inextricable link between a writer's personality and the fiction he or she creates. ... read more
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Alfred Hutty (1877–1954) was a master painter and printmaker whose evocative landscapes and realistic studies of the human condition represent the best aspects of the Woodstock and Charleston ... read more
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A Clear View of the Southern Sky reveals women in the twenty-first century doing what women have always done in pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness. In each of the ten tales from southern ... read more
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Pat Conroy’s work as a novelist and a memoirist has indelibly shaped the image of the American South in the cultural imagination. His writing has rendered the physical landscape of the South C... read more
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Sojourner in Islamic Lands takes us on a journey from Kazakhstan in the far north of Central Asia, across the mountains to the former Soviet Union, then south to Iran just below the Caspian Se... read more
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Drawing on storytelling traditions as old as southern literature itself, Grit Lit is the first anthology devoted to contemporary writing about the Rough South. From literary legends to emergin... read more
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First published in 1873, Bill Arp’s Peace Papers, by Charles Henry Smith (1826–1903), is a collection of writings from the Civil War and Reconstruction by the Confederacy’s most famous humoris... read more
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This collection, which gathers fifteen stories by contemporary Indian women representing the varied languages and regions of their subcontinent, is now available to an American audience for th... read more
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Breast or Bottle? is the first scholarly examination of the shift in breastfeeding recommendations occurring over the last half century. Through a close analysis of scientific and medical cont... read more
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Capturing the rich contrasts of the land and the intimate history of generations in the Mississippi Delta, Into the Flatland, by Kathleen Robbins, is a series of photographs documenting the te... read more
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The third collection by the prize-winning Asian American poet Jon Pineda, Little Anodynes is a sequence of lyrical, personal narratives that continue Pineda's exploration of his biracial ident... read more
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Set against the exquisite, historical backdrop of Charleston's insular South of Broad neighborhood, A Southern Girl is a tale of international adoption and of families lost, then found anew th... read more
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Novelist Walker Percy once said that the only remaining unexplored territory in southern literature was the Jewish southerner. Famous all over Town, the first novel from southern storyteller B... read more
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The Lost Woods is a collection of fifteen short stories, most of them set in and around the fictional small town of Sledge, South Carolina. The events narrated in the stories begin in the 1930... read more
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