Recipes from Joe’s Mug (2026)
Shady Hollow is a cozy murder-mystery series set in a small town of woodland creatures. The town’s local diner, Joe’s Mug, regularly sustains its detective protagonist with coffee and delicious homemade recipes. The repeated mention of foods, alongside the town’s local happenings and changing seasons, are central to the books’ homey atmosphere, and I wanted to create a cookbook that rekindled the warmth I felt when I was reading them.
I enlisted a fellow designer and dear friend, Ally Hernandez, to create the illustrations and assist with the design direction, so I could focus on typography, book structure, and color.