We recently posted a new website for publisher Simon & Schuster.  Amelia Rules! chronicles the adventures of Amelia Louise McBride, a “4th grade spitfire,” as told in this series of popular graphic novels by Jimmy Gownley.  The site is fully content-managed by the client and has numerous features such as a daily comic strip.  You can visit it by clicking the thumbnail image below:

We’ve recently launched a ton of new websites:

• for the Perseus Books Group, sites promoting new books — Silence by Thomas Perry, The Shimmer by David Morrell, Unscientific America by Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum — and a new corporate website for the Perseus Speakers Bureau
• new sites for authors Rachel Lehmann-Haupt and David Liss
• a redesign of the City Access New York organizational website

We also designed a web banner for D. Harlan Wilson’s new non-fiction book, Technologized Desire, from Guide Dog Books.

Please click on the links above to explore these new items.  Happy summer!

We recently launched two more websites for the Perseus Books Group: one for Diamondhead, the new suspense novel by Patrick Robinson, and one for The Compass, an inspirational novel by Tammy Kling and John Spencer Ellis.  You can visit those websites by clicking on the thumbnails below:

The above picture of Deena is from last weekend’s Hypericon convention in Nashville, TN, where we spent an enjoyable few days catching up with clients and selling Deena’s artwork.  Deena is seen here beside her display at the art show, showing some of her fine art.  (A portfolio of her work is here.) If you look closely, you can see her “baby bump.”  The big day is only a couple months away!

While there, Deena took place in a “watch the artist work” exhibition event where guest artists painted a piece to be auctioned off for charity.  Deena painted the below piece, “Jarod’s Bane,” in honor of our artist friend Jarod Kearney.

Deena and our freelancers have been quite busy lately.  You can view their latest projects within the galleries on this website:

• On the websites page, you can see websites for the new books In Her Own Sweet Time from the Perseus Books Group and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society from the Random House Publishing Group.
• On the online graphics page are new web banners for the American Heart Association and Perseus Books Group.
• On the e-cards and e-newsletters page are thumbnails of newsletters, e-cards, and promotional emails we designed for the Random House Publishing Group and Perseus Books Group.
• On the book covers page is a cover design that Deena did for Cruel Summer from Tamaniac Publications.
• On the ads and flyers page are new flyers and bookmarks for the Anne Frank Center and authors Tim Waggoner and Tim Lebbon.
• And on the other graphics page are new covers for Jazz Improv NY magazine and the Anne Frank Center annual report, postcards for the Anne Frank Center, and a picture of an outdoor billboard at the Jazz Museum in Harlem.

Please take a few minutes to browse these new projects, and in the meantime, happy (almost) summer!

Well, okay, there’s no such thing as the Cathy’s Skinny Bastard Potato Peel Contest.  But if you were to combine the three contest pages we just designed into one big contest, then that’s what it would be called.

Maybe.  Sort of.

Okay, not really.  But it got your attention.  (Ahem.)

Behind contest door #1 is the  What’s Good for the Bitch is Good for the Bastard contest from the Perseus Books Group, which you can enter at this link. This contest promotes the new Skinny Bastard diet/lifestyle book by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin.

Behind door #2 is the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society contest from Random House Publishing, which you can enter at this link.  It’s to promote the new historical fiction novel of the same name by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows.

And lastly, behind door #3 is the Cathy’s Ring contest from the Perseus Books Group, which you can enter at this link.  This one promotes the Cathy’s Book, Cathy’s Ring, and Cathy’s Key novels by Sean Stewart, Jordan Weisman, and Cathy Brigg.

Enjoy, and good luck!