My 2025 Summer Reading Guide is out! It is an 18-page printable document that contains over 60 reading recommendations including books from spring and summer 2025 as well mystery series recommendations, fiction/nonfiction pairings, fall 2025 titles that I love, backlist titles, and some fall most anticipated reads. I have read every page of over 90 books and sampled at least 40 more to find the ones that really resonated with me and that I can personally recommend. Please fill out this form to indicate which form of payment (a tip in the amount of your choosing), and I will send it to you!

Elina Cohen

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Senior Designer

Elina Cohen has worked as a book designer for over 20 years for some of the major publishers in New York. Working in the adult division, she designs in a variety of genres. Her most recent designs include Ron Howard’s memoir, The Boys, and the nonfiction cold case investigation, The Betrayal of Anne Frank. In her leisure time, she enjoys hiking with her family in New England, cooking and knitting for friends.

June 2, 2022

Interview with Elina Cohen - Senior Designer, HarperCollins

In this interview, Elina provides an inside look at designing a book's interior including the fonts, spacing, title page, spine dye, formatting, endpapers, and more, what the job entails and how she got started, juggling the page count with everything that has to be included, and much more.
Guest: Elina Cohen