Freelancing

Action shot! Here I am freelancing.

40 Love by Madeleine Wickham

These are real.

Here are some other slightly terrifying Tor covers for books I've worked on. God love 'em.



This original cover of Man Plus is from 1986, and we redesigned and reissued it with this new cover.

But this is new! From 2010! Iorich by Steven Brust.

Forerunner

I'm working on a redesign of this book from the early '80s called Forerunner, and oh my does it have the most fanfrickintastic psychedelic, slightly creepy illustrations.

summer reading

Beach vacation is happening in two and a half weeks, and I'm thinking of tackling one loooong book...

Freedom
by Jonathan Franzen
(576 pages)

Until I Find You
by John Irving
(848 pages)

The Pillars of the Earth
by Ken Follett
(973 pages)

i heart brooklyn

Okay, I know I don't live there anymore, but the longer I live on the Upper East Side, the more I am looking forward to moving back to BROOKLYN in a year or so. Last weekend I went to the tantalizing mecca of handmade craftiness that is known as the annual Renegade Craft Fair in Williamsburg (where I got my much-loved scissors necklace two years ago). I bought this uber-Brooklyny print of an illustration by Claudia Pearson, whom you can find on Etsy here. She's British, but she loves Brooklyn, too! (SO MANY THINGS I LIKE.) It's a charming little row of brownstones, aka my dream home, and it's titled "Houses All in a Row." I can't wait to frame it and hang it on my wall...in Brooklyn.

Time needs wasting?

Awesome tumblrs (aka awesome at-work time-sucker-awayrs):

My Daguerreotype Boyfriend

Writers and Kitties

Currently freelancing

The Kosher Carnivore by June Hersh

Midnight in Paris in Clothes

Midnight in Paris is a fun, funny movie that will make you want to visit Paris, and if you are like me, it will make you covet the clothes Rachel McAdams's character, Inez, wears in the film. Nevermind that Inez is a shallow bitch! The cute dresses! Those wedges! That covetable watch and blush-pink purse! I was more focused on that.

Currently freelancing

After an amazing five whole days of no freelance work...

Past Continuous by K. Ryer Breese

Currently freelancing

Killer Elite by Michael Smith

Get-It-Done Guy's 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More by Stever Robbins

I know, "Stever"?

Want.

I have such a crush on these Kork-Ease sandals right now. I've been going on Zappos to visit them and stare lovingly at them at least once a day. Sure, something about them is slightly old-lady-orthopedic looking, but mostly they are so cute! And I bet comfortable. If I was short I would totally want these even hotter ones.

words, ya'll!

This one is especially in honor of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, happening today.