Sasquatch Books

She on the founding executive team for a publishing startup that was later acquired by Penguin Random House.

She also spent a year as president of Sasquatch Books, which she helped the publisher transition from being an imprint of Penguin Random House to part of Blue Star Press.

During all of this, she still had her design studio out of Berkeley.

I mean, she's pretty much been like a freelancer with these other sort of gigs, kind of like how we will just like parachute into a company for a while and then parachute out if we're writing their book with them.

And so I acquired a lot of knowledge around how you start a business, how the publishing industry works.

And so I've taken that experience and rolled it into kind of my offerings as a designer.

One of my clients was a very successful small independent trade publisher in the Pacific Northwest who had acquired Sasquatch Books from PRH.

They had asked me to assist them with the acquisition process, which I did.

One of her books caught my attention for obvious reasons.

Oysters, Recipes that Bring Home a Taste of the Sea by Sasquatch Books.

It's first and foremost a beautiful cookbook filled with ways to prepare and enjoy oysters, many of which you've never considered before.

But it's more than that, because Cynthia gives readers a better understanding of the oyster itself.