Bibles

Samuel Han

Samuel Han, based in Los Angeles, is the Head of Brand and Creative Director at Alabaster Co. He studied Photography at Parsons School of Design and completed an MA in Biblical Studies at Wheaton College. For several years, he served in missions abroad and volunteered in discipleship, and his passion for art and faith eventually led him to start with Alabaster as a freelance photographer. What started as a simple outreach grew into a deeper alignment between his creativity and calling, leading him to his current leadership role at Alabaster.

CHILDREN'S

Amanda Rowe

Amanda Rowe is an art director and designer specializing in children’s publishing and is currently Senior Designer at Sourcebooks, where she works on the design and art direction of children’s books. She holds a BFA in Communication Design and an MFA in Graphic Design and has over 15 years of experience developing picture books, board books, and educational titles. Prior to her current role, she spent more than 10 years at Highlights for Children, where she worked on award-winning books including The Big Book of Activities for Little Kids (winner of a Good Housekeeping 2024 Kids Book Award) and The Longest Hidden Pictures Ever (winner of a Guinness World Record for the longest fold-out hidden picture puzzle).

FICTION / NON–FICTION

Elizabeth Yaffe

Elizabeth Yaffe is a book cover designer who is currently an Associate Art Director for Viking/Penguin Books at Penguin Random House. She has designed covers for a wide range of titles including New York Times bestsellers A Fever in the Heartland, Pineapple Street, and I Have Some Questions for You, National Book Award Finalist All This Could Be Different, and Pulitzer Prize winner G-Man. She previously worked for Ecco Books at HarperCollins. She is a graduate of Pomona College. Her work has been recognized by the Society of Illustrators, Lit Hub, Electric Lit, SPINE Magazine, and others.

Zoe Norvell

Zoe Norvell has been designing book covers professionally since 2011. She began her career working in-house at Simon & Schuster before moving over to Penguin Random House. In 2015, she began freelancing full-time in her one-woman studio. She introduced typesetting as a service to clients in 2019. Zoe regularly designs book covers and book interiors for clients of all sizes: Big 5 Publishers, tiny poetry houses, self-publishing authors, and everything in between. In 2023, Zoe single-handedly launched INeedABookCover.com. INABC houses an ever-growing gallery for cover inspiration, a searchable directory highlighting the industry’s top talent, and a Jobs Board that connects self-publishing authors with sought after talent. She also founded INeedABookInterior.com, a resource for her typesetting clients.

Amy King

Amy King is the art director at Disney Publishing Worldwide, focusing on adult book imprints Hyperion Avenue and Andscape Books. Previously she has worked for Callisto Media as senior director, design, Rodale Books as executive director of art and design, and Bloomsbury as creative director. She has created and produced jackets and interiors for Alex Hirsch, The Golden Girls, Beekman 1802, Anthony Bourdain, Walter Mosley, Susanna Clarke, Margaret Atwood, John Grisham, Jonathan Lethem, Ian McEwan, Nora Roberts, and Anne Lamott. When not designing books, she can be found in NYC’s museums and in her kitchen attempting to authentically re-create the world’s cuisine.