Overview
My novel, Cover the Butter, was an Independent Booksellers' Pick published by Penguin Putnam, Little Brown, Archipel, Random House, and Gruner & Jahr. My essays appear in For Keeps and He Said What? (Seal Press), Exit Laughing (North Atlantic Books), Faith (Simon and Schuster), and Dumped (She Writes). My second novel is in progress. All this means I’m experienced in writing as well as design, which has its benefits when it comes to creating book covers! I’m also a regular guest consultant for UCLA essay courses.
Previously a designer, editor, and copywriter for two affiliate companies of Amazon.com, I now work full time as a production designer at Hallmark Cards. Specializing in the publishing industry, I was commended as an illustrator by Writer's Digest, named Artist of the Month by the Society of Children's Writers and Artists, and was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer (Da Vinci Eye) Award for superior cover design. My clients, from the UK, USA, and Australia, include Amazon, Bookmasters, February Partners, McAllister PR, Nancy Berland PR, Greenleaf Group LLC, Friday Project, CreateSpace, PageWorks, Momentum, Pan Macmillan, The Bold and the Beautiful TV series, and Ali Smith Photography for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Bloomsbury, and Harper Collins.
Specializing in photo editing, layout, and lettering, I’m highly creative and dependable, and work with a variety of project budgets and deadlines.
Services
Fiction
Anthologies
Dystopian
Historical Fiction
Literary Fiction
Romance
Women's Fiction
Young Adult
Non-Fiction
History
Languages
English
Work experience
Hallmark Cards
Jan, 2012 —
Present
Pan Macmillan & Momentum
Jan, 2008 —
Jan, 2018
(about 10 years)
Self-employed
Jan, 1995 —
Present
Portfolio
This Christmas, the women of the Happy Endings Book Club are about to uncover a world of love and magic as they discover how to have their own happy ending ... or beginning, as they're often the same thing. Once a month, seven very different women come togethe... read more
London 1940. Young schoolgirl Rachel is alone and adrift in a stricken city as the Blitz reaches its most deadly stage and thousands die in nightly air raids. Her father is under arrest as a suspected spy, her mother seriously ill in hospital. As bombers pound... read more
Candid, relatable stories by established and emerging women writers about being discarded by someone from whom they expected more: a close female friend. There are 161 million women in America today, and our friendships are still as primary and universal as ba... read more
Donna is convinced that Eric is the man she needs to get her life back on track.But then Ridge returns to Forrester Creations determined, it seems, to tease and taunt her.When Donna, Eric and Ridge travel to the South of France for a photo shoot, Donna thinks ... read more
Caroline has left Forrester Creations, heartbroken after her divorce from Rick.Ridge senses Caroline's pain for he, too, is reeling from heartache but he is drawn to her spark and smile.When Ridge is injured in a wildfire in Malibu Canyon, Caroline returns to ... read more
Taylor is being threatened by a stalker in New York.Rick Forrester is in town for Fashion Week and insists on helping her through this trauma.They enjoy their days together but when they kiss in Central Park, the moment is 'snapped' by the paparazzi.The next d... read more
Brand new stories with the characters you love from THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL.Bill can't get the plane crash out of his head.Flashbacks and nightmares plague his sleep, and his only escape is a bottle of Scotch.He's fooled everyone with his bravado-everyone e... read more
Brand new stories with the characters you love from THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL.It's the anniversary of Phoebe's death and Steffy is overwhelmed by the memories of her twin.Rick knows just how Steffy is feeling. He, too, is thinking of Phoebe and the accident.W... read more
I love you. The meeting ran late. I want a divorce. One little word, one casual lie, one devastating announcementand our lives are turned upside down forever.In He Said What?, twenty-six gifted women writers share profoundly personal moments in which a man in... read more
There’s nothing funny about dying … or is there? Malachy McCourt, Jacquelyn Mitchard, and 22 more share hilarious and moving stories of confronting death. Exit Laughing makes death more approachable as it reveals the funny side of “passing on.” As painful as i... read more
Nearly every aging woman has a complicated relationship with her body.For Keeps, an inspirational collection of personal essays from writers on their ever-changing bodies, will resonate with every maturing woman. Editor Victoria Zackheim brings together women ... read more
Returning home from an unsatisfying trip with her sports-buff husband to discover that their teenage son has thrown a party and wrecked her lovingly restored home, middle-aged housewife Kate Cadogan remembers her coming-of-age years and rediscovers her creativ... read more
Returning home from an unsatisfying trip with her sports-buff husband to discover that their teenage son has thrown a party and wrecked her lovingly restored home, middle-aged housewife Kate Cadogan remembers her coming-of-age years and rediscovers her creativ... read more
Stock up for celebrations and events throughout the year with this set of individually-wrapped greeting cards with coordinating envelopes. Storage box features a magnetic closure and dividers to keep cards organized by occasion. Each card is individually craft... read more
Oliver Booth dreams of becoming one of the beautiful people of Palm Beach, but with his arrogant personality, his garish wardrobe, and his incompetent stewardship of an antique shop stuffed with gilded Mexican reproductions of classic French designs, there is ... read more
Cecelia looks like a peasant girl and lives in a village so small that it's not even on the map. But she knows that secretly, she is the true princess, hidden away as a baby to be kept safe from the enemies of the kingdon. A commoner named Desmia was placed on... read more
In 1794 England, the beautiful Sovay dons a man's cloak and holds up stagecoaches in broad daylight. Posing as a highway robber began as a lark to test a suitor's devotion. But when she lifts the wallet of one of England's most dangerous men, Sovay begins to u... read more
AMBITIOUS BREW is the story of how beer became American. In the mid-nineteenth century, a wave of German immigrants, dismayed by Americans' penchant for whiskey and drunkenness, re-created their beloved, old-world bier culture. Fifty years later, the American-... read more
