Lindsey Cleworth

Lindsey Cleworth – Designer

Cover designer, illustrator, and longtime publishing pro.

Overview

I'm a book cover designer and illustrator who has been in the book biz in various roles for over a decade. With years of experience working in house at real book publishers, I deliver covers and art that look anything but self-published. My services include:

- Book cover design

- Illustration


My goal is for you to love your book cover or illustrations, and I will work hard to ensure that you do.



** PLEASE READ BEFORE CONTACTING **

I understand the constraints of book budgets, so I like to be up front about my rates to save everyone time. If my fees are outside of your budget, please do not request a quote from me.


- Book cover designs are $800-$1,800

- Interior illustrations are $75-$500

Services
Non-Fiction
Art Biographies & Memoirs Children’s Non-Fiction Entertainment
Fiction
Humor & Comedy Literary Fiction Mystery & Crime Women's Fiction
Languages
English

Work experience

Self-employed

Aug, 2018 — Present

Chicago Review Press

Aug, 2015 — Mar, 2019 (over 3 years)

Design and illustrate book covers, web and print ads, and other marketing materials. Illustrate kids’ activity book interiors. Create publisher branding guides. Preflight files for printer.

Portfolio

When Skies Are Gray: A Grieving Mother's Lullaby

Henke, Lindsey M.

She Writes Press

Fear and Other Stories (Title Not in Series)

Blankshteyn, Chana

Wayne State University Press

Divining, A Memoir in Trees (Made in Michigan Writers Series)

Dunphy, Maureen

Wayne State University Press

A People's Guide to Houseplants: Thrifty, Sustainable Ways to Fill Your Home with Plants

Brezina, Cara

Microcosm Publishing

Knight's Gambit

Faulkner, William

University Press of Mississippi

Tarot Through the Witch's Year: 33 Spreads for Spiritual Connection

Krebser, Karen

Microcosm Publishing

The Delta in the Rearview Mirror: The Life and Death of Mississippi's First Winery

Rushing, Di

University Press of Mississippi

Sing Her Name: A Novel

Story, Rosalyn

Agate Bolden

Grotesque Progeny: The Commodification of Dangerous and Endangered Children (Cultures of Childhood)

Heimermann, Mark

University Press of Mississippi

Sleeping in the Sun: A Novel

Howard, Joanne

She Writes Press

The Jade Tiger (Penelope Harris Mysteries)

Cooper, E. W.

Fuck Happiness: How Women Are Ditching the Cult of Positivity and Choosing Radical Joy (Good Life)

Ariel Gore

Happiness is big business. Books, consultants, psychologists, organizations, and even governments tout happiness secrets that are backed by scientific findings. The problem is that all of this science is done by and for cis white men. And some of the most voca... read more
From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History

Nancy Sinkoff

From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History is the first comprehensive biography of Dawidowicz (1915-1990), a pioneer historian in the field that is now called Holocaust studies. Dawidowicz was a house... read more
The Writing Workshop: Write More, Write Better, Be Happier in Academia

Barbara W Sarnecka

Research is all about writing, but most PhD programs don't teach students how to produce the writing needed to get a PhD, publish research, or win fellowships and grants. Plus, the academic environment can feel as cold and harsh as the South Pole. But just as ... read more
Words like Thunder: New and Used Anishinaabe Prayers (Made in Michigan Writers Series)

Lois Beardslee

Words like Thunder: New and Used Anishinaabe Prayers is a collection of poetry by award-winning Ojibwe author Lois Beardslee. Much of the book centers around Native people of the Great Lakes but has a universal relevance to modern indigenous people worldwide. ... read more
Gut Botany (Made in Michigan Writers Series)

Petra Kuppers

"Gut Botany charts my body / language living on indigenous land as a white settler and traveler," Petra Kuppers writes in the notes of her new poetry collection. Using a perfect cocktail of surrealist and situationist techniques, Kuppers submits to the work an... read more
Civil Religion in Modern Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Tocqueville

Inspired by Machiavelli, modern philosophers held that the tension between the goals of biblical piety and the goals of political life needed to be resolved in favor of the political, and so they attempted to recast and delimit traditional Christian teaching t... read more
Life and Other Shortcomings: Stories

Corie Adjmi

Life and Other Shortcomings is a collection of linked short stories that takes the reader from New Orleans to New York City to Madrid, and from 1970 to the present day. The women in these twelve stories make a number of different choices: some work, others don... read more
When The Red Gates Opened: A Memoir of China in the 1980s

Dori Jones Yang

When China opened its doors in the 1980s, it shocked the world by allowing private enterprise and free markets. Dori Jones was among the first American correspondents to cover China under Deng Xiaoping, who dared to defy Maoist doctrine to try to catch up with... read more
A Pirate's Life for She: Swashbuckling Women Through the Ages

Laura Sook Duncombe

Pirates are a perennially popular subject, depicted often in songs, stories, and Halloween costumes. Yet the truth about pirates—who they were, why they went to sea, and what their lives were really like—is seldom a part of the conversation. In this Seven Seas... read more
Letters to a Young Feminist

Phyllis Chesler

LETTERS TO A YOUNG FEMINIST is a visionary message from a leading feminist to the next generation of feminists. Phyllis Chesler discusses basic aspects of feminism, explains feminism's relevance in a world that has taken it for granted and derided it, and help... read more
Pedestrianism: When Watching People Walk Was America's Favorite Spectator Sport

Matthew Algeo

Strange as it sounds, during the 1870s and 1880s, America’s most popular spectator sport wasn’t baseball, boxing, or horseracing—it was competitive walking. Inside sold-out arenas, competitors walked around dirt tracks almost nonstop for six straight days (nev... read more
The Capture of Black Bart: Gentleman Bandit of the Old West

Norman H. Finkelstein

Black Bart was not the Old West’s only stagecoach robber, but he was the most famous. To many people, he was a folk hero: a robber who didn’t threaten or harm passengers. He was a bandit with a sense of humor who wrote poetry. In robbing at least 28 Wells Farg... read more
I Am Not Your Slave: A Memoir

Tupa Tjipombo

I Am Not Your Slave is the true story of a young African girl who was abducted from southwestern Africa and funneled through an extensive yet almost completely unknown human trafficking network spanning the entire African continent. As she is transported from ... read more
Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock

Christina Lane

Phantom Lady chronicles the untold story of Hollywood’s most powerful female writer-producer of the 1940s. In 1933, Joan Harrison was a twenty-six-year-old former salesgirl with a dream of escaping her stodgy London suburb and the dreadful prospect of settling... read more
Case with Ropes and Rings: A Sergeant Beef Mystery (Sergeant Beef Series)

Leo Bruce

The Coroner's Jury found that the boy hanged in the school gymnasium had killed himself, but Sgt. Beef disagrees. He takes a job as a temporary school caretaker, abetted by the reluctant Townsend, Beef's biographer, whose brother is a master at the school. Bee... read more
Cold Blood: A Sergeant Beef Mystery (Sergeant Beef Series)

Leo Bruce

When the police fail to arrest the seemingly obvious suspect in the murder of an eccentric millionaire with a croquet mallet, Sergeant Beef is called in to investigate
Neck and Neck: A Sergeant Beef Mystery (Sergeant Beef Series)

Leo Bruce

Lionel Townsend, Sergeant Beef's priggish biographer, has surprisingly found himself the prime suspect of a murder. When his aunt in Hastings is found poisoned, Townsend must turn to Beef for assistance. When an unpopular publisher is found hanged in the Cotsw... read more
Women and Madness

Phyllis Chesler

Feminist icon Phyllis Chesler’s pioneering work, Women and Madness, remains startlingly relevant today, nearly fifty years since its first publication in 1972. With over 2.5 million copies sold, this landmark book is unanimously regarded as the definitive work... read more
Great American Artists for Kids: Hands-On Art Experiences in the Styles of the Great American Masters (Bright Ideas for Learning)

MaryAnn F. Kohl

Fun and easy art-appreciation activities abound in this resource that features 75 American artists from colonial times to the present. A brief biography for each artist tells why his or her work is important, and a kid-tested art activity tries out the artist’... read more
Wally Funk's Race for Space: The Extraordinary Story of a Female Aviation Pioneer

Sue Nelson

Wally Funk was among the Mercury 13, the first group of American pilots to complete NASA’s 1961 Women in Space program. Funk breezed through the rigorous physical and mental tests, her scores beating those of many of the male candidates—even John Glenn. Just o... read more
This Is Really War: The Incredible True Story of a Navy Nurse POW in the Occupied Philippines

Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi

In January 1940, navy nurse Dorothy Still eagerly anticipated her new assignment at a military hospital in the Philippines. Her first year abroad was an adventure. She dated sailors, attended dances and watched the sparkling evening lights from her balcony. Bu... read more

Lindsey has 8 reviews

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Elizabeth C.

Elizabeth C.

Nov, 2020

I enjoy every interaction with Lindsey and am very happy with all her help. We have worked through two books together with excellent results. I highly recommend her.
Elizabeth C.

Elizabeth C.

Aug, 2020

Lindsey was absolutely amazing to work with. She was always on time, her work thoughtful and excellent. Her cover for my novel hit the nail on the head for my historical mystery and really set the tone for the launch of my first book. I couldn't be happier with our partnership.
Elizabeth C.

Elizabeth C.

Jun, 2020

I was very lucky to find Lindsey just when she had an opening in her schedule. As a first time independent author with a historical mystery series to publish I knew I needed to find someone with talent and a vision to help me develop just the right cover for the first book. Lindsey knocked it out of the park. Honestly, I don't know how I got so lucky. She was so patient with my questions and ha...
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Lindsey C.
Thanks, Elizabeth—this project was a blast to work on! Can't wait to to work with you again!
Lauren P.

Lauren P.

Mar, 2020

Lindsey was the consummate professional. She listened to my vision and then created beautiful options for me to choose from. She was prompt, receptive and reasonably priced. I would highly recommend her and plan to use her for future projects.
David M.

David M.

Aug, 2019

I needed a better cover for a book I was republishing. I had some ideas that would have been quite costly. Lindsey found a photo that worked and through color and fonts created the dramatic, eye-catching cover I wanted. She was very patient as I went through my own learning curve regarding today's self-publishing business.

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