Who

As a book designer and visual artist, I design, guide, and create space for the writer. Though my design résumé extends through the decades, the heart of my work is the creative process. Together we collaborate and call on my extensive network of editors, proofers, and printers.

— Kelly Pasholk

What

Passionate about book design, I recognize the patterns of so many of my clients. Often creativity hits a wall. The last miles of the journey can be the most challenging — rewrites, delays, subconscious blocks. My services include hosting one-on-one writer’s retreats, book design, sending to press, and branding the finished work. As your writer’s concierge, I customize the path, identify obstacles, and eliminate roadblocks along the way.

Where

In Taos, you walk through historic cross-cultural villages, sagebrush mesas, desert landscapes, and up mountain paths along talking creeks, accompanied by wild things. Meet artists, writers, and idiosyncratic human beings who retain an authentic edge of the liberated human spirit. Though the mysteries of northern New Mexico can’t be calibrated, the experience can be enjoyed as a different kind of spiritual adventure.

As Stephen Mallarmé said, “Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book."