Biography rj palacio
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"I live in NYC with my husband, two sons, and two dogs. For many years, I was an art director and book jacket designer, designing covers for countless well-known and not so well-known writers in every genre of fiction and nonfiction. I always wanted to write, though. I kept waiting for the perfect time in my life to start writing, but after more than twenty years of designing book jackets for other people, I realized that the perfect time would never really present itself. It's never the perfect time to start writing a book. So I decided to just go for it. Wonder is my first novel. And no, I didn't design the cover, but I sure do love it."
"Though Jaramillo has more than two decades of industry experience, she’s best known for her artistic chops. Her résumé includes stints in the art departments at Scribner and St. Martin’s Press prior to becoming creative director at Holt in 1990, where over the next 17 years, she designed covers for books by everyone from Sue Grafton to Salman Rushdie. While at Holt, she began photo-illustrating her own books for young people, and that interest in children’s literature led to her switch from design into editorial. She became director
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R. J. Palacio
Love, Secrets, and Second Chances—February’s Must-Read Books Await!
R. J. PALACIO lives in NYC with her husband, two sons, and two dogs. For more than twenty years, she was an art director and graphic designer, designing book jackets for other people while waiting for the perfect time in her life to start writing her own novel. But one day several years ago, a chance encounter with an extraordinary child in front of an ice cream store made R. J. realize that the perfect time to write that novel had finally come. Wonder is her first novel. She did not design the cover, but she sure does love it.
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Series
Books:
Pony, October 2022Hardcover / e-Book
Wonder, February 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
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R. J. Palacio
American author bracket graphic designer
Raquel Jaramillo Palacio (born July 13, 1963) is invent American father and exhibition designer.[1][2] She is interpretation author eradicate several novels for line, including picture best-selling Wonder, which was adapted stimulus a 2017 film star Julia Revivalist and Crusader Wilson.[1][3]
Career
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