Danna Mathias Steele

Danna Mathias Steele – Designer

Cover/interior designer with 15+ years experience. Worked for Amazon.com and small publishers. A passion for beautiful, simplistic books.

Overview

With over a decade of experience in the professional publishing industry, I’m a firm believer that you should always judge a book by it’s cover. I’m passionate about well-executed, thoughtful design and aim to bring that understanding to every book I help create.


I've got degrees in both graphic design and English literature, curating a distinct skill set when it comes to visually communicating a book's themes and tones. I can't wait to help you bring your project to life!


Check out my book cover critique discussion with Reedsy here:

https://blog.reedsy.com/live/cover-critique-danna-mathias/

Services
Non-Fiction
Art Biographies & Memoirs Self-Help & Self-Improvement
Fiction
Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Mystery & Crime Poetry Women's Fiction
Languages
English

Work experience

Self-employed

Jan, 2017 — Present

Book covers, typesetting, branding/logos and wedding invitation design.

Amazon.com

Jan, 2011 — Jan, 2017 (about 6 years)

Develop and manage creative direction for top-selling authors and public figures entering the publishing industry. Create strong publication series identities in house, including interior layout design and typesetting, production design, cover concept development, and print file creation.

Portfolio

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The House on the Rocks

Donley, Alexa

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Ellis River

Ehrlich, Nicki

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Toska

Cabrera, Elizabeth C

Cover Design
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The Murder of Sarah Grosvenor

Withycombe, Betsy

Cover Design
The Color Teil: Life, Work, and Inspiration

Duncan, Teil

Cover Design Book Interior Design
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All the Natural Beauties: A Suspense Thriller (Detective CJ O'Hara Debut)

Deal, John

Cover Design Book Interior Design
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The Pomegranate

Schwaidelson, S. J.

Cover Design Book Interior Design
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All Things That Deserve to Perish: A Novel of Wilhelmine Germany

Mack, Dana

Cover Design Book Interior Design
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Salt the Snow

Callaghan, Carrie

Cover Design
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Little Things: A Novel

Fillion, Amy

Cover Design
One Fine Day

Padilla, Jenae G

Cover Design Book Interior Design
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Immigrant Secrets: The Search for My Grandparents

Mancini, John Francis

Cover Design Book Interior Design
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Beebe and Bostelmann: a historical novel

POLITSCH, KENT

Cover Design Book Interior Design
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The Second: A Memoir of Love and Commitment

Durda, Colleen Burns

Cover Design
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Blue Sky Gone

Farmer, J.S

Cover Design Book Interior Design
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Surviving To Tell The Tale: A Time To Forgive

Vincent, Richard A

Cover Design Book Interior Design
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Witch's Shadow

Cain, Philip

Cover Design
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40 for 40: Forty stories, sayings, and lessons learned from a non-celebrity, Costco-shopping, minivan-driving, extremely grateful married father of 5 kids who is turning forty years old.

O'Donnell, Dennis

Cover Design Book Interior Design
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Broken and Breaking Free

Amy Fillion

Is it possible to transcend the boundaries of the life you were born into, and if so, what will you sacrifice?Susan Dubois is the youngest member of a poor French-Canadian Catholic family resi... read more
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Will There Be Wine?: A Novel

Cubbison, Ms. Whitney

Cover Design Book Interior Design
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The King of Kreskin Avenue

A.K. Vitberg

The King of Kreskin Avenue is the powerful tale of the connection between Mario Colucci, a highly decorated, emotionally scarred Korean War hero who’s the neighborhood oddity, and a sixteen-ye... read more
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HARBOR BLUES a novella

Cheryl Devenney

A decades old cold murder case. A fed-up LAPD cop's wife. A fresh homicide. All collide amid a sea of blackmail and murder.A 24 year-old unsolved murder case re-surfaces when Melanie, wife of ... read more
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Sex Talk: How Biological Sex Influences Gender Communication Differences Throughout Life's Stages

Furlich, Dr. Stephen A.

Cover Design Book Interior Design
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Help Yourself to Helping Yourself: How to cleanse your overflowing plate of responsibilities, change the ambiance of your life, and start from scratch

Parrish, Amber N

Cover Design Book Interior Design
The Life and Times of Dr. Maximus Schwantz Aka Dr. Michael Swank

Swank

Cover Design
Sunshine in the Delta: A Novel

Erica M. Sandifer

From author Erica Sandifer comes Sunshine in the Delta, a tale of life and love and everything in between, set in the Mississippi Delta during the early 1960s. Money, Mississippi, just beyond ... read more
Cover Design

Danna Mathias has 167 reviews

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Jeannette P.

Jeannette P.

Nov, 2023

I can't say enough good things about Danna! What a pleasure to work with! She did an amazing job with my cover and formatting the inside. She very patiently answered all my questions and made changes when requested. I couldn't be happier with the result. I never met her or spoke on the phone but based on her emails, she seems like the nicest person. Five stars all around!
Ron S.

Ron S.

Nov, 2023

Danna was amazing to work with! Very professional and met all deadlines without issue. Her design put my novel into another category. Hope to work with her again on my next novel. 10/10 would highly recommend.
Danny T.

Danny T.

Nov, 2023

Just needed the cover she designed to be formatted for the audio book... fast and efficient! All good!
Dobie M.

Dobie M.

Nov, 2023

Danna has an uncanny ability to create cover art that captures the spirit of a book. She also produces flawless print versions for upload to Amazon. They are accepted without a hitch, every time. I am always grateful that, among the many requests she undoubtedly gets, she's willing to work with me!
S.A L.

S.A L.

Nov, 2023

Working With Danna was so easy. She gave a timeline at the onset and as long as I kept up my part of the timeline she kept up her's. She managed to quickly turn around documents even when I had a couple of issues with formatting (they were my fault.) And the result is a beautiful book. I will be recommending her in the future to my writer friends. She was professional, did a great job, and man...
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