Overview
As an art director and designer, I create print and digital book covers for fiction and non-fiction books. I enjoy the challenge of balancing my own creative concepts with the client's vision, working together to create a beautiful and commercially successful design that compels a reader to choose one book out of so many from the stacks.
Services
Non-Fiction
Biographies & Memoirs
Cooking, Food, Wine, & Spirits
Health & Wellbeing
Fiction
Historical Fiction
Literary Fiction
Mystery & Crime
Romance
Thriller & Suspense
Women's Fiction
Young Adult
Work experience
Self-employed
Feb, 2012 —
Present
Penguin Random House
Sep, 2010 —
Feb, 2014
(over 3 years)
I worked at Penguin as an art director for the NAL imprint, where I designed a mix of hardcover book jackets and trade, mass market and e-book covers. Areas of focus included women's fiction, romance, suspense, young adult and urban fantasy.
St. Martin's Press
Feb, 2007 —
Jul, 2010
(over 3 years)
At St. Martin's, I learned how to art direct photo shoots while also commissioning work from freelancers. I managed and designed more than 40 mass market covers per year, plus hardcover and trade paperback titles.
Grand Central Publishing
Jan, 2003 —
Jan, 2007
(about 4 years)
Beginning as an intern while I was still in college, and then as a full-time employee after graduation, I moved through three positions while learning about art direction and design from the creative director.
Portfolio
First published in 1970, A Room in Athens is the remarkable journal of a free-spirited, young American woman abroad in Greece with her writer husband in 1964. Inspired by the sixties’ vogue for the exuberant land of Zorba and Lawrence Durrell, they seek an Aeg... read more
Lala Pettibone, a forty-something widow whose outrageous antics befit women half her age, has been imagining her sexy boss, Gerard, is as smitten with her as she is with him. Enter Gerard’s fabulous girlfriend from Paris. After spending the rest of the day dri... read more
When you’re in trouble and sinking fast, whom do you call?Piper Nelson is stuck. She can’t quite stay away from the husband she divorced. She isn’t always attentive to the high school students she teaches. And even she admits that she’s been drinking too much ... read more
When the last thing you want is the one thing you need, you've got to have a little faith....Growing up, Ellen Carlisle was a Christian: She went to Jesus camp, downed stale Nilla Wafers at Sunday school, and never, ever played with Ouija boards. Now, years la... read more
What do you really know about Love?Love’s her name, but it’s not her whole story . . .Love Bukowski is a new sophomore at Hadley Hall, the posh prep school where her father is now principal. Raised by her single dad (with more than a little help from her funky... read more
The classic YA novel RUMBLE FISH, written by celebrated novelist S.E. Hinton and immortalized by legendary film maker Francis Ford Coppola, now available as an eBook for the first time.Rusty James wants to be just like his big brother Motorcycle Boy - tough en... read more
If you thought Moscow's propaganda campaigns ended with the Cold War, think again. The Kremlin's efforts to influence global discourse has only grown more sophisticated with the creation of state-run, English-language broadcaster RT. Leading the charge of seve... read more
"In a world shrouded by soot and smoke, young Makarria has literally been forbidden to dream...Legend has foretold the demise of Emperor Thedric Guderian at the hands of a sorceress with royal blood, and the Emperor has made it his legacy to stamp out all magi... read more
The Test is a coming of age tale, set on Long Island in 1963, that deals with race, violence, social politics, and young love. It was a time when suburban America was about to undergo seismic societal changes. With this backdrop, a teenage boy falls in love wi... read more
Belle Prokoff is the last of a famous generation of painters for whom art was a secular religion—worth any amount of struggle and sacrifice for its promise of redemption. She is also the widow of Clay Madden, who revolutionized American art, became a near-myth... read more
Darkness lies closer than you think....Liana Clymer is running away—from her divorce, from her past, from herself. Leaving behind everything she knows, she finds herself ensconced in a fuchsia-colored cottage in the swampy hinterlands of the Florida panhandle.... read more
One would think that with her impressive list of bestselling self-improvement memoirs Jen Lancaster would have it all together by now. One would be wrong. After all, she’s no Martha Stewart. And that’s why Jen is going to Martha up and live her life according ... read more
"Exceptionally entertaining and wonderfully original" (Chicago Tribune), Beth Kendrick delivers a funny story about family, self- discovery, and the pursuit of the perfect pie crust. Suburban soccer mom Amy has always wanted to stand out from the crowd. Former... read more
I was almost seventeen when the spell of my childhood was broken...It was the beginning of summer and, unbeknown to any of us then, the end of a belle epoque...In July of 1914, innocent, lovely Clarissa Granville lives with her parents and three brothers in th... read more
What if everything you knew about your life was wrong? Years ago, Juliet Clark gave up her life in California to follow the man she loved to Mexico and pursue her dream of being an artist. Now her marriage is over, and she’s alone, selling watercolors to touri... read more
After growing up in privilege and marrying into money, Lila Alders has gotten used to the good life. But when her happily-ever-after implodes, Lila must return to Black Dog Bay, the tiny seaside town where she grew up. She’s desperate for a safe haven, but eve... read more
In the tradition of Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird, a critically acclaimed National Book Award finalist shares inspiration and practical advice for writing a memoir. Writing memoir is a deeply personal, and consequential, undertaking. As the acclaimed author of fi... read more
