Overview
Hello, there! My name is Erin, and I design books. I am one of those designers who enjoys adapting to new visual challenges, so you'll see some variety in my portfolio. My clients have included HarperCollins, Hachette, and Quarto imprints, as well as smaller houses like Seal, Counterpoint, Sourcebooks, Crooked Lane, and others who do important work in publishing. I am always excited to work with indie authors and small operations—I know that when marketing budgets are shrunken or nonexistent, an enticing cover can go a long way toward a book's success.
I began a visual arts career more than a decade ago, when I worked as an editor and found myself staying at the office late into the evenings playing with my typography and layouts. I have designed things day and night ever since, building a versatile style that has served my clients well. My work is the product of experience, flexibility, and—most important of all—collaboration. I like to approach my projects with both an informed art direction and an open mind—often, the best cover design is the one that's unexpected. I bring market research to the table as well as visual principles, so what I design ends up working from multiple angles. At the end of the day, the cover is there to show off, instantly, how hard an author has worked, and as a fiction writer myself, I take pride in bridging that gap between a hard-hewn piece of writing and the reader who craves it.
Please check out my portfolio to see if my work feels like a good fit for yours. Reach out anytime. I look forward to collaborating with you!
I began a visual arts career more than a decade ago, when I worked as an editor and found myself staying at the office late into the evenings playing with my typography and layouts. I have designed things day and night ever since, building a versatile style that has served my clients well. My work is the product of experience, flexibility, and—most important of all—collaboration. I like to approach my projects with both an informed art direction and an open mind—often, the best cover design is the one that's unexpected. I bring market research to the table as well as visual principles, so what I design ends up working from multiple angles. At the end of the day, the cover is there to show off, instantly, how hard an author has worked, and as a fiction writer myself, I take pride in bridging that gap between a hard-hewn piece of writing and the reader who craves it.
Please check out my portfolio to see if my work feels like a good fit for yours. Reach out anytime. I look forward to collaborating with you!
Services
Non-Fiction
Biographies & Memoirs
Health & Wellbeing
History
Humanities & Social Sciences
Fiction
Historical Fiction
Literary Fiction
Thriller & Suspense
Women's Fiction
Languages
English (US)
Work experience
Self-employed
Jan, 2014 —
Present
I balance book cover and interior design projects as a full-time freelancer. I have worked with HarperCollins, Hachette, Seal, Sourcebooks, Quarto, Counterpoint, and others.
Self-employed
Nov, 2007 —
Jan, 2014
(about 6 years)
I have maintained a roster of freelance clients in book design, paper crafting, and marketing design for more than 12 years.
DCWV (now a division of American Crafts)
Nov, 2007 —
Jan, 2014
(about 6 years)
I used my crafty side to design products for sale at Michaels, Jo-Ann Fabrics, and other nationwide crafting retailers. I also created catalogs, marketing materials, and packaging for production. I loved this job because it gave me a chance to learn how to design, a skill I had always wanted to apply to books. In 2014 I felt ready to become a book designer full time, so I resigned from crafting and began a steady and successful tenure at my own business, Erin Hiatt Creative.
Cedar Fort
Jan, 2007 —
Nov, 2007
(10 months)
In my short time at Cedar Fort I read incoming manuscripts for the acquisition editor, copy edited manuscripts in Microsoft Word, typeset books in Adobe InDesign, and proofread both printouts and galley proofs. I wrote occasional cover copy and communicated editorial concerns directly with authors.
Portfolio
A man with no name hits the streets of Portland to find a friend he fears may have been killed for taking a stand.By the author of the new novel The Preserve.It's 2009, and the economy's falling apart. Formerly homeless, the no-name man owes what little he has... read more
You find out who did it on the very first page. On the last page, you'll find out why in this expertly plotted, “enthralling” (J. P. Delaney) psychological suspense novel from an internationally bestselling author.Late one night a man walks into the luxurious ... read more
Restore your faith in love and build healthy, successful relationships with this essential guide for every woman haunted by her parents' divorce.Silver Medal Independent Publisher's AwardWinner of the Best Book Award in "Self-Help: Relationships" Over 40 perce... read more
For Fans of Julia Glass and Ann Hood, a Novel about How the Choices We Make Last a LifetimeVegas Girls begins when three former high school friends, now in their mid-thirties, reunite in their hometown of Las Vegasa city they vowed to escape as soon as they c... read more
*Shortlisted for a 2017 RoNA Award*With her whole life ahead of her, beautiful young Grace’s world changes forever when she’s married off to a much older judge. Soon, feeling lonely and neglected, Grace meets and falls in love with an Indian doctor, Vikram—he’... read more
This groundbreaking multicultural anthology shares moving personal stories about the impacts of Alzheimer’s and dementia. An estimated 5.7 million Americans are afflicted by Alzheimer’s disease, including 10 percent of those over sixty-five, and it is the sixt... read more
If half of all cars bought in America each year broke down, there would be a national uproar. But when people suggest that maybe every single marriage doesn’t look like the next and isn’t meant to last until death, there’s nothing but a rash of proposed laws t... read more
By the author of the bestselling parent book 1-2-3 Magic<From the Author of Bestselling Parenting Series 1-2-3 Magic!For the estimated 20 million Americans with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder comes the third edition of All About ADHD by Dr. Thomas W.... read more
Over 1,200 years old, 500 miles long, and rich with tradition and sacred history: Embark on the trip of a lifetime with Moon Camino de Santiago. Inside you'll find:Strategic trekking guides for walking the Camino, including where to start to get the Compostela... read more
The Road Awaits! Criss-cross the country on America's classic two-lane highways with Road Trip USA!Inside Road Trip USA you'll find:A flexible network of route combinations color-coded and extensively cross-referenced to allow for hundreds of possible itinerar... read more
Available again from the Bergman centenary comes an elegant novel structured as a series of five “conversations” that reveal Bergman’s mastery of dialogue and gift for setting. Revisiting the autobiographical themes he first explored in his novel The Best Inte... read more
Book of the Year, 2018 Saltire Literary Awards A CrimeReads Best True Crime Book of the Month For fans of Caitlin Doughty, Mary Roach, and CSI shows, a renowned forensic scientist on death and mortality. Dame Sue Black is an internationally renowned forensic a... read more
A riveting, behind-the-scenes look of the Yazidi genocide and the terrorist threat it holds for the West, based on the investigation by Father Patrick Desbois, Costel Nastasie, and their team at Yahad–In Unum, as first shown on 60 Minutes. With testimony drawn... read more
A compelling and compulsively readable riff on the classic noir detective novel that follows a hard-drinking PI accused of a murder he didn’t commit--or did he?Eddie King wakes up one morning with a splitting headache to find two cops in his room, who begin qu... read more
A raw, unflinching literary debut for fans of Dennis Lehane and Tom Franklin examining the aftershocks of survival, and the price of salvation. In the blue-collar town of Chittenango, New York, two young boys are abducted from a local festival and taken to a c... read more
Two killers force a family into mortal peril in this “gripping thriller” based on the blockbuster movie starring Meryl Streep and Kevin Bacon (Publishers Weekly). To help heal a rocky marriage, river-rafting expert Gail, her husband, Tom, and their son embark ... read more
In his three novellas, In Short Measures,” Strong Conspirators,” and Sally Forth,” Michael Ruhlman delves deeply into the nuanced complexity of romantic and sexual loveand the inevitable evolution of the heart over the span of years and decades.Each novell... read more
Inspiration for Every Home Decorator with a Passion for the PastThe Heirloom House is a humorous personal account of two interlocking obsessions: eBay and the quest to create a vacation house that looks and feels like a family heirloom.Beginning with recollect... read more
Lynch, West Virginia, is a husk of a town: houses collapsing, deserted coal mines, the money gone. The residents who have not abandoned their homes find themselves living in poverty with little-to-no job opportunities, fighting for scraps and survival under th... read more
Ever dreamed of strolling through a Dali print? Or stepping into a fairy tale? Open A Man Jumps Out of an Airplane and experience the rush of having reality yanked from underfoot.This is the book that put Barry Yourgrau on the literary map, where he remains as... read more
Book Pipeline 2017 Grand Prize WinnerWinner of the Audiofile Magazine 2018 Earphones Award for Fiction Over one hundred years ago, Emma Rose Finnis was born and died in the remote northern California town she now haunts. When she was alive, she was a lowly cha... read more
*** "an impressive debut novel."—The Washington Post *** When Jackie Dunbar's father dies, she takes a leave from medical school and goes back to the family cattle ranch in Colorado to set affairs in order. But what she finds derails her: the Dunbar ranch is b... read more
A Tongue-in-Cheek Guide to Becoming a Dictator, Based on the Outrageous, Scandalous, and Excessive Behavior of Dictators Past and Present Who hasn’t dreamed of one day ruling your own country? Along with great power comes unlimited influence, control, admirati... read more
Ernest Hemingway lived in Cuba for more than two decades, longer than anywhere else. He bought a home—naming it the Finca Vigia—with his third wife, Martha Gellhorn and wrote his masterpiece The Old Man and the Sea there. In Cuba, Papa Hemingway found a sense ... read more
Some single, simple things, like mustard, have a wealth of history and a path of stories, usually known only to a few. . . . Even if you don’t think you’re interested in mustard, after reading this delightful book, you will be!” Deborah Madison, The Savory W... read more
The first book in the Horseshoer Mystery series by bestselling novelist Lisa Preston featuring farrier and amateur detective Rainy Dale, for fans of William Kent Kruger and Craig Johnson. Rainy Dale is The Clincher, a twenty-something high school-dropout turne... read more
The Matrimonial Flirtations of Emma Kaulfield is an often laugh-out-loud comedy of conflicting manners, values, and customs, set against the backdrop of a Russian immigrant family's struggle to assimilate, their newfound love of capitalism, and their insistent... read more
For fans of Don DeLillo and Joseph O’Neill, an enthralling debut about the one percent, what they’ll do to stay on top, and the callous gaze they turn on those below them.Burned-out and alienated, Kilgore associate attorney Stephen Harker spends his work days ... read more
One morning in August of 2007, Didier Pourquery’s daughter, Agathe, only a few days away from her twenty-third birthday, stopped breathing. Seven years after her death, her father tells her story, based on his notes taken during the last three weeks of her lif... read more
Mason jars are no longer just for canning. Today we use them to drink from, to cook inside, andwith almost limitless possibilitiesto craft with. In this fabulous new book, Linda Braden, author and owner of MasonJarCraftsLove.com and ItAllStartedWithPaint.com... read more
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A finalist for the 2017 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. An addictive Western literary horror for fans of Joe Hill, Cormac McCarthy, and Anne Rice.One night in 1980, a man becomes a monster. Haunted by his past, Travis Stillwell spe... read more
For fans of Mary Roach, a sweetly nostalgic and enlightening exploration of futures past, present, and still to come. Generation Robot covers a century of science fiction, fact and, speculation—from the 1950 publication of Isaac Asimov’s seminal robot masterpi... read more
*2016 Edgar Award Finalist**2016 Anthony Award Finalist**2016 Macavity Award Finalist*In 1970, Ross Macdonald wrote a letter to Eudora Welty, beginning a thirteen-year correspondence between fellow writers and kindred spirits. Though separated by background, g... read more
For fans of both real spy dramas and fictional ones—both Ben Macintyre and John le Carré—the story of why spies spy. Why do people put their lives at risk to collect intelligence? How do intelligence services ensure that the agents they recruit do their biddin... read more
An IPPY Gold Medal Winner Paris Book Festival Winner Finalist for the 2018 Minnesota Book AwardA graphic designer's search for inspiration leads to a cache of letters and the mystery of one man’s fate during World War II Seeking inspiration for a new font desi... read more
Glamour. Cosmo. SELF. Ladies’ Home Journal. Vogue. In an industry that has been in a downward spiral for years, these magazinesand other womenfocused magazines like themhave not only retained their readership, they’ve increased it. Every month, five million... read more
The first book to explore menstruation in the current cultural and political landscape and to investigate the new wave of period activism taking the world by storm.After centuries of being shrouded in taboo and superstition, periods have gone mainstream. Seemi... read more
FIRE IN THE HEART is a powerful memoir by a woman, once a shy, insecure schoolgirl, who reinvented herself as a professional wildland fire fighter. Determined to forge herself into a stronger, braver person, Mary climbs to heights she never imagined for hersel... read more
The inspiring memoir of a plus-size woman who summited Kilimanjaro while overcoming fat prejudice and her own demons--"I was moved and inspired by every page of this beautiful book" (Cheryl Strayed)Kara Richardson Whitely was determined to reach the summit of ... read more
Life is sweet for New Yorkers Molly and Gabe: They're young, in love, and newly engaged.But when Gabe sells his first novel--a thinly-veiled retelling of his wild love affair with ex-girlfriend Talia--and it becomes a national sensation, Molly can't help but f... read more
**ONE OF POPSUGAR'S “10 BOOKS BY DEBUT AUTHORS TO WATCH IN 2019”** From a powerful new literary voice, a sweeping epic of one family and the destructive power of the American Dream All their lives, the children of George Benjamin Hill have fought to escape the... read more
Another fabulous art history thriller by the bestselling author of Oil and Marble, featuring the master of Renaissance perfection: Raphael! Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling is one of the most iconic masterpieces of the Renaissance. Here, in Raphael, Paint... read more
Think you know everything about sex? Think again! This funny and true story of one woman’s journey to reclaim her sexuality on the fringes of New York City’s sex and dating world will make you think twice about everything there is to learn about sex! Meet Oliv... read more
Available again, an acclaimed collection from an American master that USA Today called “Powerful . . . lyrical, vivid, engaging.”Originally published twenty-five years ago, Platte River is one of the early collections that established Rick Bass’s reputation as... read more
Man Booker Prize Finalist, LA Times Book Prize Finalist, New York Times Editor’s Choice, and an American Booksellers Association National Indie Bestseller!Named a Best Book of 2016 by Newsweek, NPR, The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Sunday Times!In the smas... read more
A 2018 NAACP Image Award nominee and an NPR Best Book of 2017, a moving African-American family drama of love, devotion, and Alzheimer’s disease. Diane Tate never expected to slowly lose her talented husband to the debilitating effects of early-onset Alzheimer... read more
Brought together across time by a love of story, three women in England fight to defy expectations, dream new dreams, and welcome love into their lives. As a counselor, Sophia Barrett is trained to help people cope with their burdens. But when she meets a new ... read more
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