Dawn Roode of Modern Heirloom Books in New Jersey

Book Designer

Susan Hood

Areas of Expertise

  • Typesetting and page composition

  • Photo restoration and retouching

  • Liaising with printers, binders, and mapmakers

  • Creating complex family trees

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Susan is the co-founder of Remarkable Life Memoirs, a partnership devoted to creating life stories in beautiful, privately published books. A veteran book designer, she spent 35 years working for major New York publishing houses. Susan particularly enjoys transforming older photographs: “I fix any scratches, color imbalance, and blotches, and I restore levels of dark and light so that every image looks its best.” Along with her business partner and crackerjack editor, Samantha Shubert, Susan will preserve your documents, photographs, and stories as a legacy for future generations.