Author Archives: ariane

Happy feedback on a cover

From the editor of Overland Journal, on the winter 2015 issue: The cover is totally stunning! Here’s the caption on the image: Star Peak, at 9,863 feet, is the highest peak in the Humboldt Range in Pershing County, north-central Nevada. … Continue reading

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Serra book in top 25 academic books for 2015

Junípero Serra: California, Indians, and the Transformation of a Missionary (in the series Before Gold: California Under Spain and Mexico) has been selected in Choice Reviews Online Top 25 Academic Books of 2015! The book has gotten a lot of … Continue reading

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The end of another year

The lovely quote for this year’s Christmas card, like last year’s, came from a current project (having copyedited it over the summer and being partway through the design process): The Greatest Show in the Arctic: The American Exploration of Franz … Continue reading

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More nice notes

Following up my last post is another collaboration with Robert Senkewicz and Rose Marie Beebe, a very short book for the Santa Barbara Mission Archive-Library. We’ve done a few of these booklets, all 7×10 and in full, glorious color. A … Continue reading

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More Spanish magazines

This spring, I worked on some online magazines for my frequent collaborator Rose Marie Beebe at Santa Clara University. (See here for a previous iteration of this project.) Her Advanced Spanish Writing Workshop does a wide range of articles (on … Continue reading

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A new summer issue

The summer issue of Overland Journal is at press. Here is a little sample of the pages: First is the table of contents for the issue–I realized that I’ve never shown what page 1 looks like! It’s a great way … Continue reading

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Little advertising cards

I recently made up some business cards to help a recent author spread the word about his new ebook. The author was very appreciative: WOW! And a big thank you for those great looking cards. It’s obvious you put some … Continue reading

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Oxen

It’s been a really busy spring, and I’ll be writing more soon about some of the projects that have been underway. First up: the spring 2015 Overland Journal, which is currently being mailed to OCTA members. Remember, we do an … Continue reading

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First true ebooks

Here are the covers of a few ebooks on Amazon that I designed. Ebooks made for the Kindle are not what I usually do–they lose almost all of the design work and polishing that I do in a print book–but … Continue reading

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Merry Christmas!

This year’s Christmas card came from a book that I worked on for much of this year: Motoring West, Volume 1: Automobile Pioneers, 1900–1909, edited by Peter J. Blodgett. The book is full of pithy quotes like this one, and … Continue reading

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