So exciting!! Loved working on this project! 🩷

Last year was a bit rough for me. This is a more vulnerable essay-like post, where I attempt to work through those feelings and share how I plan to return to being more like the tortoise, after being the hare for so long.

Typesetting and cover layout for Korean Temple Cooking, a co-edition published by Hardie Grant North America. — #booklayout #pagelayout #typesetting #typesetter #coverlayout #cookbook

Curious about what a book designer needs to know before beginning a project? In Hadley House this month I cover essential information to share with your interior designer, cover designer, or typesetter to ensure smooth timelines, accurate quotes, and a seamless experience!

A clean document means less manual tweaking, easier style management and global changes, consistent formatting, and avoiding rework during ebook conversion. Learn how to prep your text before typesetting with these simple Find/Changes! open.substack.com/pub/hadleyho...

Indirect Books is publishing Talbot & The Fall (and that's The Fall, the post-punk band guys...so exciting—post-punk is my jam)—if you have the means, they have a campaign set up to help publish the book! www.indiegogo.com/projects/ind...

Get an inside look at my process behind designing the interior for this incredible gothic novel! I talk through my reasoning behind my choices for the margins, alignment, chapter openings, special formatting, and more. 🌟 hadleyhouse.substack.com/p/typesettin...

PW Star Watch is open for nominations for up-and-coming publishing professionals under 40! Here are the details: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/corp/bcpp... Nominate your fav publishing professional before July 25 (I'd be honored if you considered me as your nomination <3)

From compressing images and shortening URLs to finding the best sites to look through for inspiration, these are my essential, can't-live-without resources!

Some InDesign tips for you! Here's 3 quick GREP tricks to clean up your layouts, automate repetitive tasks, and streamline your InDesign workflow (+ a list of publishers and magazines that I created and will be continuing to add to!)

For those in the publishing industry! The Young Publishers Association’s Mentorship Program is launching this spring, and they are looking to match publishing professionals with mentees newly breaking into the industry. Here’s the form to apply as either a mentor or mentee. DUE APRIL 30!

New Hadley House post! Get the inside scoop on how I designed Little Engines' first ever book: ARCHIVE! Such a pleasure to be part of such a cool book. hadleyhouse.substack.com/p/design-and...

Ever been curious about why you've read a line over again when you were reading? Or wondered why you lost your place? My new post on Hadley House goes over some reasons why typesetting impacts readability and accessibility and how to fix them! hadleyhouse.substack.com/p/6-guidelin...