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Salt and Broom

Cover for Salt & Broom for Amazon Publishing

Art direction by Alison Impey

Nightweaver

Cover Artwork for “Nightweaver” by R.M. Gray, published early 2024.

Art directed by Karina Granda for Little, Brown (Hachette)

The Invocations

Artwork for the paperback release of The Invocations, for Penguin Randomhouse

Art direction by Teresa Evangelista

The Flyers of Gy

Illustration created for The Folio Society Book Illustration Award contest, 2023.

Based on ‘The Fliers of Gy’ by Usrula K Leguin

Starchaser

Cover Artwork for “Starchaser” by R.M. Gray, set to be published fall 2025.

Art directed by Karina Granda for Little, Brown (Hachette)

The Beasts We Bury

Cover Artwork for ‘The Beasts We Bury’ by D.L. Taylor

Art direction and final color edits by Meg Sayre at Macmillan

The Knight and the Butcherbird

Cover artwork for Alix' E. Harrow’s short story ‘The Knight and the Butcherbird’ for Amazon Original Stories.

Art direction by Tree Abraham at Amazon Publishing

Rough Pages

Illustration for ‘Rough Pages’ by Lev A.C. Rosen, the third title in the Evander Mills series.

Published by Tor/Forge, art direction by Katie Klimowicz

Evander Mills

Cover Artwork for the Evander Mills mystery novels by Lev Rosen.

Art directed by Katie Klimowicz for Tor/Forge (Lavender House, The Bell in the Fog, and Rough Pages) and David Rotstein (Mirage City) at Minotaur Books.

That Devil, Ambition

Cover artwork for “That Devil, Ambition” for HarperCollins

Art direction by Julia Tyler

Starlings

Illustration for the cover of “Starlings” coming in June 2023 from Delacorte Press (Penguin Randomhouse).

Art direction by Trisha Previte

Touch of Death

Bad Creek

Cover artwork for “Bad Creek” by Peyton June, for W.W. Norton

Art direction by Hana Nakamura

The Shadow Sister

Illustration for the paperback release of ‘The Shadow Sister’ by Lily Meade

Published by Sourcebooks, art direction by Erin Fitzsimmons

A Darker Mischief

Cover artwork for “A Darker Mischief” for Scholastic Inc.

Art direction by Chris Stengel

Womb City

Artwork for the cover of “Womb City” by Tlotlo Tsamaase tbr in Jan 2024.

Initially approved artwork in the first image and final cover with the added type in the second.

Art direction by Sarah Guan and Samira Iravani

Sleep Like Death

Cover artwork for “Sleep Like Death” by Kalynn Bayron

Art direction by Donna and Jeanette at Bloomsbury Publishing

Vampyria Saga (Amazon Publishing)

Cover and full wrap artwork for the US editions of Victor Dixen’s Vampyria Saga, “The Court of Shadows” and “The Court of Miracles” published by Amazon Publishing

Art direction by Jarrod

Arachne

Le Tombeau Des Immortels (Cover)

Cover and full wrap artwork for “Le Tombeau des Immortels” for Robert Laffont

Fantasma

InQueery

Editorial illustrations done for InQueery

  1. An article about pearl jewelry

https://inqueerymedia.com/case_files/case-037-pearls-gone-wild/

2. An article about celebrating Beltane in Isolation

https://inqueerymedia.com/case_files/case026/

3. An article about queer flagging with chain jewelry

https://inqueerymedia.com/case_files/case-021-the-chain-gayng/

Deep Sea Pearl

Carina Nebula

Little White Lies

Illustration done for the cover of Little White Lies’s April/May ‘22 issue, focusing on Robert Eggers’s film ‘The Northman.’

Art direction by Laurène Boglio

Politico Europe

Illustrations done for Politico Europe, print and web.

  1. To accompany the article "Anne Hidalgo's Sack of Paris"

  2. To accompany the article "Welcome to the Age of Unpeace"

  3. To accompany the article "Europe Gives Biden a One Finger Salute"

AD Tim Ball

The New Republic

Illustrations for The New Republic for their Jan/Feb 2022 and Sep 2021 Issues, created to accompany articles about American General Smedley Butler’s complicated legacy and Justice Clarence Thomas’s shady ties to polluting corporations.

AD: Andy Omel

Babeland

Digital paintings created for Babeland Toys.

Several of which have been used for window displays in all store locations in NYC (Soho, Lower East Side, Brooklyn), and Seattle.

Tarot Card piece has been admitted into Illustrators 61, the Society of Illustrators annual for excellence in advertising illustration.

Reliquaries

Salt and Broom

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Nightweaver

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The Invocations

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The Flyers of Gy

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Starchaser

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The Beasts We Bury

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The Knight and the Butcherbird

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Rough Pages

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Evander Mills

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That Devil, Ambition

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Starlings

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Touch of Death

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Bad Creek

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The Shadow Sister

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A Darker Mischief

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Womb City

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Sleep Like Death

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Vampyria Saga (Amazon Publishing)

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Arachne

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Le Tombeau Des Immortels (Cover)

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Fantasma

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InQueery

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Deep Sea Pearl

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Carina Nebula

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Little White Lies

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Politico Europe

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The New Republic

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Babeland

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Reliquaries

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