Book designer David Moratto, bookstore
Book cover design, interior book design, book ornament design
BOOKSTORE
This page is dedicated to the authors (that I have had a part in designing their book(s)), for which you can find their book(s) to purchase.
For the following books; I have either designed their front cover, interior pages, book ornament(s) or all three. To view my works, you'll find everything you need under 'Book Design Samples', on my main navigation menu above.
Paperback; Travel/Memoir
Shawn D. Phelps
• I designed the cover, interior book, and book ornaments.
Book Description
At 31, after her boyfriend dumps her and she gets a weird autoimmune disorder, Shawn Phelps decides a new approach to life is in order. She quits her job as a business magazine editor and sets out on a seven-month journey from Thailand to Nepal to learn the secrets of happiness from Asia's sages-not knowing who they are or how to find them.
From the Publisher
Shawn has put together a beautiful, sometimes darkly funny series of short stories about the people she met on her epic seven-month overland journey who transformed her and her life along the way. She also provides insight into what it's like to live and struggle with depression, social anxiety and an autoimmune disorder, all while backpacking alone through foreign countries.
Her message is simple, almost so simple it's easy to miss the profoundness of it, that the more you connect with people in an authentic way (let them see the real you), the more you - and your life - will be transformed by those people. "Each connection you make in life turns you into who you will become."
Paperback; House & Home/Design & Construction
Kelly Morisseau
• I designed the interior book, and book ornaments.
Book Description
"80% OF CONSUMERS WANT TO REDO THEIR KITCHENS." - Kitchen and Bath Design News.
From DIY go-getters to reluctant remodelers to smart consumers who just want to stay on top of their projects, everyone who dabbles in kitchen design and remodeling needs some "I wish I'd thought of that" help and support.
Packed with truly insider kitchen design secrets and remodeling tips shared in a humorous, realistic way, Kelly's Kitchen Sync has answers to questions you didn't know you should ask. Don't let your project get bogged down by your own horror story! Let Kelly help you get it done right, on time and on budget.
You'll learn how to:
- Separate expectations from the reality of what will work for you and your kitchen
- Figure out where to go, who does what, when to get outside help
- Ensure your design matches the space, appliances, and how you use your kitchen
- Choose materials that will work best, and when and where to splurge
- Keep costs down by making good choices and avoiding costly mistakes
Kelly Morisseau has kitchen design in her blood. Her blog, Kitchen Sync, is a top-ten kitchen design blog on the internet. A second-generation designer, both her parents were kitchen designers long before anyone understood the term. Kelly's award-winning experience includes more than 25 years as a professional kitchen designer, both on her own and for leading design/build firms. She is a Certified Master Kitchen and Bath Designer (CMKBD) and a Certified Interior Designer (CID) in California.
Crumbled Oak Leaf, Words of Grief and Hope
Paperback; Inspirational
Patricia Gavros
• I designed the cover, interior book, and book ornaments.
Book Description
During the years following her beloved brother Jerry's death, Pat Gavros wrote poems and letters to help her work through the grief, anger, bewilderment, guilt, confusion and deep sense of loss.
This collection of her poems and letters to Jerry reflecting on life, death, hope and the beauty of our world are truly inspirational. Grief can make us stronger or break our spirit - Pat's anguished but commonsense approach to coming to terms with Jerry's death allowed her to grow better rather than bitter.
Through her journey we gain a new apreciation of those important to us, a desire to appreciate every day we have...and the understanding to help strengthen our relationships with those we love before it's too late.
Make Banks Compete To Lend You Money
Paperback; Business Education
Rich Russakoff and Mary Goodman
• I designed the interior book.
Book Description
- Climb into the driver's seat when negotiating rates, terms, conditions, and even personal guarantees.
- Craft a loan package that flies through any banking bureaucracy.
- Get a loan officer to volunteer to champion your loan.
- Turn your tax return into a secret weapon.
- Create a buyer's market, even in today's banking climate.
The ability to obtain credit is a precious and finite resource. This book will show you how to get a lifetime competitive edge by mastering the system.
The American Turquoise, An Ainsley Walker Gemstone Travel Mystery
eBook; Travel/Mystery, series 1
J.A. Jernay
• I designed the interior ebook ornament.
Book Description
For fans of Nora Roberts and Janet Evanovich…
Dumped by her husband just as he finishes law school, and disillusioned by her loss of another unsatisfying office job, Ainsley Walker is approaching thirty with nothing to show for it.
Deeply dissatisfied, she knows that she deserves more than a growing waistline and shrunken dreams…
Then...
Everything begins to change when she sells her engagement ring to a mysterious jeweler, a man who recognizes her passion for gemstones and travel, and who makes her an offer that she can’t resist.
From an author who worked on the foreign desk of The Washington Post, who explored North and South America for nearly twelve months, who was a finalist in a prestigious short story contest sponsored by the estate of F. Scott Fitzgerald, comes the prelude to a gemstone travel mystery series that will change the way you see your life.
The Uruguay Amethyst, An Ainsley Walker Gemstone Travel Mystery
eBook; Travel/Mystery, series 2
J.A. Jernay
• I designed the interior ebook ornament.
Book Description
For fans of Nora Roberts and Janet Evanovich…
Dumped by her husband just as he finishes law school, and disillusioned by her loss of another unsatisfying office job, Ainsley Walker is approaching thirty with nothing to show for it.
Then...
Her life changes when she accepts an offer from an elderly art dealer to travel to the country of Uruguay—the forgotten jewel of South America—to purchase a mysterious and valuable amethyst treasure, El Árbol Negro.
Along the way, she is helped and hindered by locals as she explores auction houses, historic neighborhoods, remote villages, beef ranches, and elite beach resorts.
Ainsley’s danger-filled pursuit not only brings joy, pain, friendship, duplicity, and murder—but also gives her a new purpose.
From an author who worked on the foreign desk of The Washington Post, who explored North and South America for nearly twelve months, who was a finalist in a prestigious short story contest sponsored by the estate of F. Scott Fitzgerald, comes a travel adventure that will change the way you see your life.
Catherine Black
Trade Paperback
• I designed the interior book.
Book Description
In this, her second book, Catherine Black weaves together the wonder, heartache, and “unlovely beauty” of a youth that is by turns charmed and disquieting. Straddling genres of memoir, prose, and poetry, A Hard Gold Thread delights in the layering of keenly observed moments, in the subtle play of remembering and forgetting, and in the shift in perspective brought to bear on memory as it is transmuted by time. Reverent, sensitively rendered, and sometimes tongue in cheek, A Hard Gold Thread is an unconventional memoir inviting the reader into a meditation on the engulfing beauty of the world and the compulsion to turn away from it. {Guernica Editions}
Praise for Black’s first book, Lessons of Chaos and Disaster: “Her work in this debut collection is intense, imagistic and often inward looking. Black tends to write in direct, declarative sentences, but she achieves an incantatory urgency through repetition and a build-up of expressive images.” {Barbara Carey, Toronto Star}
Mary Bucci Bush
Trade Paperback
• I designed the interior book.
Book Description
Italians as indentured labourers in Southern cotton plantations at the turn of the twentieth century? Entire families scrabbling to survive, dying of malaria, building relationships with their neighbours, many the first generation of freed slaves? Sweet Hope unleashes the little known story of Italians who came looking for a better life in La Terra Nuova and found hardship, misery and their own form of slavery instead. {Guernica}
Alan Lord
Trade Paperback
• I designed the cover and interior design.
Book Description
ATM SEX is a furious collection of satirical sketches and fearless social commentary that manages to skewer everyone and everything under the sun, often employing the absurd lingo of advertising. It makes fun of the doomed dysfunctional interplay between the sexes, and kicks the ass of our crackpot lifestyles, hysterical consumerism, and overreliance on technogeekery and media-drooling, which are supposed to solve our pathetic lives dominated by tragic consumerism, arrogant gadget-diddling, and rampant narcissism. In Alan Lord, we have finally found an unapologetic un-Canadian over-the-topper, willing to throttle the myriad squawkboxes of our out-of-control dumbed-down zeitgeist. {Guernica Editions}
Life is too short to miss Alan Lord’s satiric ATM SEX! This writing is refreshingly offensive, painfully funny, and excruciatingly honest. These “too short stories” skewer present day absurdities involving sex, death, finance, politics, terrorism, fitness, labour, conspiracy theories, and erratic bodily functions, all in a no-holds-barred rant, exposing the painful truths of our warped world. Read it and take a clear-eyed gander at the pointless absurdities of existence. You’ll laugh through your tears! {Karl Jirgens (Editor, Rampike magazine)}
Julie Wilson
Canadian Real Estate Guide.
• I designed the interior book.
Book Description
Beyond the Sold Sign by Julie Wilson provides an in-depth look at senior living options, and is a powerhouse of information and resources for anyone considering moving from their family home. This book leaves no stone unturned as it guides the reader to make decisions about right-sizing, living accommodations, taxes, financial options, estate planning and more. Beyond the Sold Sign is an excellent resource for all professionals, family members and care givers working with seniors preparing for a real estate transition in their later years. Bonus Section: Estate Record Keeping Diary included. Keep record of your personal, insurance, legal and financial information in one handy place.
The Ecstatic Torture of Gratitude
Jill Battson
Trade Paperback
• I designed the cover.
Book Description
Jill Battson’s highly anticipated new collection of poems, The Ecstatic Torture of Gratitude, pushes deep into the heart of the human condition. In lush and visceral language Jill explores loss, beauty, nature, Francis Bacon’s ordered hoarding and the meaning of Martha Stewart. Jill’s poems whisper like muted Miles Davis tunes melancholy in the ear, or shout their colours from the top of desert mesas. Many of the poems in this collection are a result of collaborative artist process with dancers, composers, singers and painters, but above all they will live in your memory like a perfect pearl long after their first reading. {Guernica Editions}
An eclectic mix of lyric, narrative and ekphrastic poetry with a generous helping of humour reveals the range and depth of Jill Battson's newest collection. It's no surprise these poems brim with the names of friends and loved ones: Jill Battson's poetic generosity overflows. {Carolyn Smart (author of "Hooked - Seven Poems")}
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