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Dead Between the Lines: book cover for Penguin
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Dead Between the Lines

  It’s time to share with you the third installment of Denise Swanson’s Devereaux’s Dime Store mystery novel covers: Dead Between the Lines! As always it was a pleasure to work on this book cover with AD Mimi Bark at Penguin Group. This time around the mystery involves gardening, so it was fun working all

Public Media Platform infographic
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The Public Media Platform

  I just finished working on a really fun and unique project for a new entity called the Public Media Platform. The PMP is a collaborative digital content-sharing system that was just started and that will allow all the different public media outlets (so, PBS, NPR, Public Radio International, etc) to share content for the

Irish Yearning for Connecticut Magazine
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Irish Yearning for Connecticut Magazine

  In honor of St. Patrick’s day I thought I’d share this illustration which I recently created for the March issue of Connecticut Magazine. It’s a full-page opener for a story called Irish Yearning by David Monagan. The story is a personal essay about the journey of irish immigrants in Connecticut, from his own ancestors

Nickeled and Dimed to Death mystery cover illustrated by Anni Betts
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Nickeled and Dimed to Death!

  Earlier this year, I was fortunate enough to work on the cover of the second book in Denise Swanson’s Devereaux’s Dime Store mystery series, called Nickeled-and-Dimed to Death. The book, published by Signet, is now available on Amazon.com and in book stores! It was a fun project to work on, particularly the contrast of the

Eve and the apple
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Honeycrisp

  Here’s a personal piece I finished recently as a way to experiment a little with technique. I sometimes wish I could dye my hair my favorite shade of turquoise, but I’m a little too chicken. The great thing about drawing pictures is you can sort of live vicariously through them, so the next best

Little Shop of Homicide book cover with illustration by Anni Betts
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Little Shop of Homicide

  This is another book cover that I illustrated recently for the excellent people at Penguin books. The book is called Little Shop of Homicide, and is the first in the new Devereaux’s Dime Store Mystery series by Denise Swanson. Ms. Swanson is the New York Times best-selling author of the very successful Scumble River

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