Tamara Dever, founder/designer

Tamara, Tami, Tam—she’ll answer to them all and more, as long as it’s something nice! Tami is the co-owner and founder of TLC Graphics (now TLC Book Design, of course), which began as a freelance business while she was in high school in the mid-eighties. Faced with the choice of commuting her life away or having no job at all, she decided to take her freelance business full-time in 1997. TLC has since grown from design studio to a complete book creation firm, with—dare we say?—a wonderful reputation for providing outstanding design and caring customer service.

Tami is “into” a lot of things: horses, the Packers (Don’t bug her on game day!), music reality shows, and all things ’70s and ’80s—especially music. She’s the author of two retro music trivia books and coauthor (with Erin) of My Publishing Journey.

Monica Thomas, designer

Monica has more than sixteen years of publishing design experience and has won many awards for her design savvy. She’s the one who says “yes” to a new type of project because she hasn’t tried it before and wants to learn. It’s doubtful there’s anything this woman can’t design well. This girl gets up in the wee hours of the morning to work in peace and get inspired. The rest of us are often relieved when we hear she’s taking a nap, as we couldn’t bear for her to lose her mojo!

She’s our resident children’s book design guru, though she has graduated from that cool box of 64 Crayons.

She’s frequently found camping with her family, walking their dogs, and mountain biking, yet always manages to remain her adorable self.

Erin Stark, designer

An award-winning interior design specialist, Erin has 29 years of experience in the graphic design and publishing industries. This woman is often the unsung hero, having a specialty in interior design and layout—you know, the stuff in-between the covers. You probably didn’t even realize somebody does that—and she does it painstakingly well! Yes, perfect kerning, margins, leading, hyphenation, and folios are some of her favorite things.

You never know what you’ll find Erin doing — hiking and kayaking with her husband, leading a Bible study, feeding birds and squirrels, traveling around the world, or cheering for the Badgers, Brewers, Bucks, or Packers. Erin is the coauthor (with Tami) of My Publishing Journey and quite possibly the most interesting woman in the (TLC) world.