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I accept a limited number of commissions for the design and layout of limited-run, artful books, chapbooks, or paperback trade publications.  My fees vary according to the project, but as a rule of thumb they average $35-$60 per hour depending on the specific tasks commissioned.  I offer a free consultation for the purpose of determining the scope, and thus the costs, of the project. Recent design commissions are listed this page

For information about commissioning a project CONTACT me at 413-625-6728 or e-mail me at thebooksmyth@aol.com

thebooksmyth@aol.com

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Do It Differently, Do It Differently by Saundra Dubow Azmitia.  Layout and cover design by Booksmyth for Strong Woman Press, Florence MA

 

A powerful, poignant memoir about coming of age in the forties and fifties under the thumb of a "titan" of a mother whose ambitions for welath and security for her daughter focused on steeringher into marraige with a "good catch."  Resisting her mother's traditional standards of a woman's "proper place" and limited horizons, Saundra struggled to honor her mother and still carve a meaningful life for herself through the arts and theater.   

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Moving memoir of a long life richly lived.  Elizabeth Leete shares, in prose, poetry and selections from her journalist past a moving account, the beauty and pain of the quotidian  

Memories Kept Alive, Elizabeth Donaj
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$10: Contact publisher to order

Charming memoir of an immigrant from Germany, settling into and creating home and family in western Massachusetts.

   
   

  - Literarure is mostly about having sex and not much about having children.  Life is the other way around.  -  David Locke