editorial design
Book cover + prelim page design
Fishing for Māui: A novel about food, family and mental illness.
Isa Ritchie is a finalist in the NZ Booklovers best book award, and named one of the best books of 2018 in the Listener Magazine.
Isa is a Wellington-based writer. She grew up as a Pākehā child in a bicultural family and Māori was her first written language. She has completed a PhD on food sovereignty in Aotearoa. She is passionate about food, wellbeing and social justice.
Background
I had the privilege of creating the cover and initial pages for Isa. The narrative centers around; Valerie who reads George Eliot to get to sleep – just to take her mind off worries over her patients, her children, their father and the next family dinner. Elena is so obsessed with health, traditional food, her pregnancy and her blog she doesn’t notice that her partner, Malcolm the ethicist, is getting himself into a moral dilemma of his own making. Rosa is eight years old and lost in her own fantasy world, but she’s the only one who can tell something’s not right.