Overview
The importance of design cannot be underestimated in today's highly competitive publishing market.I thoroughly enjoy being a part of the process that pairs words with art and propels a book forward into greater noticeability and appreciation. With twenty years of experience working at both large trade and academic publishing houses I have mastered the skills that allow me to create work that I feel is interesting, thought-provoking and wonderful to look at.In my portfolio, you will find designs that cover a variety of topics and styles for both book jackets/covers and interiors. I like to have fun while designing but I take my work seriously and I pride myself in being able to work effectively with authors, editors and other designers, making sure they are satisfied and proud to have my work represent theirs.If you would like to see sample interior work or a sample jacket/cover that you don't see in my portfolio please contact me. I look forward to hearing from you and helping you publish your work!
Services
Non-Fiction
Architecture
Art
Biographies & Memoirs
Business & Management
Design
Economics
History
Humanities & Social Sciences
Music
Nature
Photography
Political Science & Current Affairs
Fiction
Classics
Fantasy
Historical Fiction
Literary Fiction
Mystery & Crime
Science Fiction
Thriller & Suspense
Work experience
Cornell University Press
Sep, 2003 —
Present
Art direct and design academic covers/jackets and interiors.
Little, Brown and Co.
Aug, 2001 —
Aug, 2003
(about 2 years)
Designed book covers for the trade fiction and non-fiction markets for this high profile and high print-run book publisher.
St. Martin's Press
Aug, 1997 —
Aug, 2003
(about 6 years)
Designed book covers for this high profile trade fiction and non-fiction publisher.
Books ran the gamut of literary fiction, mysteries, crime/thriller fiction, trade non-fiction, scholarly non-fiction, photography books and more.
Self-employed
Aug, 1997 —
Present
Jacket and cover designs for publishers such as Simon & Schuster, Basic Books, Picador USA, Palgrave/Macmillan, Temple University Press and more.
St. Martin's Press
Oct, 1996 —
Aug, 1997
(10 months)
Designed book interiors for this high profile trade publisher.
Portfolio
Why has the United States assumed so extensive and costly a role in world affairs over the last hundred years? The two most common answers to this question are "because it could" and "because it had to." Neither answer will do, according to this challenging re... read more
An extensive critique of the structures of whiteness and how they produce racism in the United States
"Literature matters because . . . it allows for experiences important to the living out of a sophisticated and satisfying human life; because other arenas of culture cannot provide them to the same degree; and because a relatively small number of texts carry o... read more
Bruce Dancis arrived at Cornell University in 1965 as a youth who was no stranger to political action. He grew up in a radical household and took part in the 1963 March on Washington as a fifteen-year-old. He became the first student at Cornell to defy the dra... read more
Beverly Bell, an activist and award-winning writer, has dedicated her life to working for democracy, women's rights, and economic justice in Haiti and elsewhere. Since the 7.0 magnitude earthquake of January 12, 2010, that struck the island nation, killing mor... read more
In "No One Helped" Marcia M. Gallo examines one of America's most infamous true-crime stories: the 1964 rape and murder of Catherine "Kitty" Genovese in a middle-class neighborhood of Queens, New York. Front-page reports in the New York Times incorrectly ident... read more
Camping or backpacking in winter is appealing for many who enjoy the serenity of wilderness settings without the crowds and bustle of the summer season. But as rewarding as they can be, these outings require special preparation and a different set of skills th... read more
The Industry of Souls is the story of Alexander Bayliss, a British citizen arrested in Leipzig by the KGB in the 1950s. He is erroneously charged with espionage and accused of being an enemy of the Soviet peoples, and after a brief and "utterly irrelevant" tri... read more
May 31, 1883, 3:55 p.m. Twenty thousand men, women, and children, their faces shining in the late afternoon sun, are strolling the Eighth Wonder of the World. The Brooklyn Bridge is open just a week, its promenade a magnet for the teeming masses of New York an... read more
In 1963, Andrew Loog Oldham was an ultra-hip and precocious hustler of genius on the London scene, with a keen eye for the next look and a willingness to gamble on it. He was all of nineteen when Brian Epstein too him on to be the Beatles' London press agent, ... read more
"This book is . . . a romantic history of romantic collecting. It takes seriously, and by necessity shares, the tendency of romantic histories to dwell upon their own fragmentariness, on the impossibility of capturing an intact history. . . . It traces the par... read more
Will Alexander is the sheriff in a small town in southern Appalachia, and he knows that the local thug Holland Winchester has been murdered. The only thing is the sheriff can find neither the body nor someone to attest to the killing. Simply, almost elementall... read more
In 1975 there were 125 wineries in eastern North America. By 2013 there were more than 2,400. How and why the eastern United States and Canada became a major wine region of the world is the subject of this history. Unlike winemakers in California with its Medi... read more
The Woman and the Ape is the story of a unique and unforgettable couple--Madelene and Erasmus. Madelene is the wife of Adam Burden, a distinguished behavioral scientist. Erasmus--the unlikely prince--is a 300-pound ape. Brought to the Burdens' London home afte... read more
In his early 20s, a lifetime of excess left Rick Moody suddenly stranded in a depression so profound that he feared for his life. A stay in a psychiatric hospital was just the first step out of mental illness. In this astonishingly inventive book, Moody tells ... read more
A Special Edition with a New Introduction and an Updated DiscographyThis is Greil Marcus's acclaimed book on the secret music made by Bob Dylan and the Band in 1967, which introduced a phrase that has become part of the culture: "the old, weird America." It is... read more
Although John D. MacDonald published seventy novels and more than five hundred short stories in his lifetime, he is remembered best for his Travis McGee series. He introduced McGee in 1964 with The Deep Blue Goodbye. With Travis McGee, MacDonald changed the pa... read more
The epic, rollicking, up-and-down life of Muddy Waters, who went from Mississippi farmhand to musical legend, who invented electric blues and created the template for the rock-and-roll band and its wild lifestyle, is brought into sharp focus in this widely acc... read more
On December 18, 1867, the Buffalo and Erie Railroad's eastbound New York Express derailed as it approached the high truss bridge over Big Sister Creek, just east of the small settlement of Angola, New York, on the shores of Lake Erie. The last two cars of the ... read more
The long decade from the October Revolution to 1930 was the beginning of a great experiment to create a socialist society. Throughout these years, socialist trade unions attempted to transform the Russian worker into a productive and enthusiastic participant i... read more
To millions of fans, All About Eve represents all that's witty and wonderful in classic Hollywood movies. Its old-fashioned, larger-than-life stars--including Bette Davis, Marilyn Monroe, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, and Celeste Holm--found their best roles in... read more
