Vicious Desires Design (2026)

31/12/2024

Hey Vicious Besties. It's been a while. 🥹
If 2023 was a hot heartbreaking mess, 2024 was a wild fever dream.

After a year filled with heartbreak and failures, it still feels surreal to say I held my breath and started 2024 off as part of a new clinical trial with THE BEST care team, research team, and oncologist I've ever had. I was so afraid to get my hopes up again, but within three months of starting an aggressive schedule with the new trial, we started to see INCREDIBLE results. The kind that had my entire team crying and celebrating. Within six months, we'd shrunk several tumors, some nearly football size to grapefruit size. My failing kidney healed and is no longer tumor involved. Efficacy has waned over the year, but I am just...I'm so happy and so at peace today.

I haven't shared many (or any) of the covers and art I was so fortunate and thrilled to work on last year - I'm sorry to my amazing authors, clients and collaborators and thank you for understanding. This year I wanted to at least try to slide in at the buzzer and share just a small peek at a few of the revealed pieces we completed in 2024, and say THANK YOU to every single one of you. I know it wasn't easy, I know just how much patience and grace you afforded me. Lord do I know. I see you, I appreciate you all. Thank you for reaching out to let me celebrate in your victories and for making them mine too. Thank you for standing up and championing me as your designer and artist every step of the way as you signed contracts, reached more and more markets, expanded your careers, or just took new steps into your author journey! I hope you know I am SO proud of you, and also just so happy to know you. 🥹

So while my designer wrapped / art v artist take might be smaller than years past as Vicious technically remained closed for 2024, it feels extra special this year. Every project was worked on or completed in the hospital or during treatment. They gave me a sense of purpose on my worst days, kept my mind busy and fulfilled as my body fought, and I'll forever be so proud, and so SO grateful.

And so, the 2024 season comes to an unexpectedly beautiful end.
Happy New Year, Vicious Besties.
🖤

30/10/2023

Happy Monday, Vicious Besties 🫶

It’s been a whole month since surgery, and well, sometimes, things really don’t go the way we plan, huh? I thought I’d be sliding back in here around this time with a different kind of update. Unfortunately, despite all our preparations, we were forced to abort surgery partway through due to the cancer being far, far more widespread than any of our imaging or previous procedures had shown. At this point, my amazing surgical team has deemed this recurrence inoperable both in safety and scale. So, instead of two plus weeks in the hospital recovering and rehabilitating, I’ve taken the last few weeks with my family to swear a whole lot, to grieve, and finally, to pull myself back together and process.

What does this mean for Vicious?

I’ve been trying to write this update for the better part of two weeks, and I’ve never wished for a crystal ball more than days like these. I’ve JUST received my first step admission for a phase two clinical trial, but it’s a slow process and information dribbles in. I think the best path forward at this time is to take the remainder of this year to focus on the trial, my health and enjoying the holiday season with my family. As of this week, I will be open for continuations and adjustments, but at this time, I don’t plan to contact anyone from the waitlist or reopen for bookings fully until the new year.

I am an existing client and have a question or need a continuation or adjustment?

My email is open again as of today, and I will be through existing messages by the end of the week. If you need to bump up your message, please ALWAYS feel free to shoot me another email and I’ll be back as quickly as I can, or you can reach out to Elisabeth via DM and she will make sure I’m back to you within 48 hours.

Email: [email protected]

Thank you all so much for the love, the prayers, for so many of you being here with me, and the immeasurable kindness. I love you guys more than I can say. 🖤

- Steph

22/09/2023

Good morning, Vicious Besties. I've got this scheduled to post practically in the middle of the night while I'm headed to pre-op, but I just wanted to say a huge thank you for the privilege of sharing this space with you the past TWO YEARS while doing what I love, and for the grace and support so many of vou have showered me with in that time.

Today is surgery number 4 for me this year, by far the largest of them all, if not the largest I've ever had. Intestinal cancer has been absolutely kicking my butt the entirety of 2023, but so many of you have stood behind and beside me though it all, and I wish I had the words to express the level of gratitude I'm feeling. There's been a few days I wouldn't have gotten through without some of you.

Sometimes I feel like I have no business being here amongst what feels like giants, but this community has welcomed me from the very start, reminding me maybe it's okay for me to take space, to create and thrive and belong here, too. So I'm saying thank you for every big and small moment that hit like a freight train, even the ones that hit in silence, and promising myself, the universe, and all my favorite book boyfriends right here and right now, that I WILL be back after this surgery, because at the heart of it all, I am not finished yet, and Vicious feels like home. 🫶

Thank you.
Love you.
F**k the odds.
And always keep fighting.
🖤

09/06/2023

LUCKY 33, VICIOUS BESTIES!! This feels crazy to say, but Party Crashers is my THIRTY-THIRD cover for Heather Long, Author, and our fifth series together! And she gave me the most GORGEOUS image of to design Ramsey's cover. 🫠 OBSESSED. How freaking stunning is he?!

Party Crashers is book three in the Blue Ivy Prep series, and releases in just a few weeks! You can preorder your copy here today: https://a.co/d/aoS4VYg

07/06/2023

VICIOUS BESTIES - THIS COVER. Man this is one that let me grow so naturally as a designer and came to life even better than I ever imagined. Brooklyn Cross Author didn't bat an eye early last winter when we talked through her story and I said something along the lines of...do you think you could gimme a couple weeks and just...trust me? 😅 With her awesome vision and great feedback, we built this high concept cover completely from scratch to represent Ren's story- created the medals, the sunken chess pieces, the crumpled lotus flowers, hand placed every paint splatter, bubble and ripple, and I'm SO in love with the effect we achieved for Disobedient Pawn and The Kings of Wayward Academy!

Disobedient Pawn is up for Pre Order now, and will be releasing in ONE MONTH!
You can grab your copy here: https://mybook.to/DisobedientPawn_WWA1

"Never underestimate the power of a pawn."

Brooklyn, thank you so much for the opportunity to grow as a designer and to work on this series with you; I can't wait to see what Ren and the Kings have in store for us!

17/05/2023

"Do you still crave my darkness, little one?"

I am beyond excited and honored to share my contribution of illustrated slip case, edges, endpapers and casebound cover art for Sav R. Miller's Promises & Pomegranates Anniversary Edition with you all today, Vicious Besties.🥺🖤

Sav has not only the ability to capture and explore the twisted, dark side of love and obsession in the stories she writes, but also to gently encourage and support the creatives around her, too. I could go on far too long about how grateful I am to her in general, most recently for allowing and encouraging me to create pieces alongside her and such IMMENSELY talented designers and artists on this project. But, by the end one of us 🙋‍♀ might have an anxiety attack, so I'll just say THANK YOU SO MUCH and pretend I'm not hugging this book as gently as humanly possible and muttering "The Doctor will see you now" in a puddle on my floor. 😅🥵

(Editing to add: this box and all features designs were part of a limited print run for P&P’s anniversary earlier this year! I’m just a snail at sharing things! 🙈)

**coordinating Promises and Pomegranates title typography included on illustrated spine via the freaking INCREDIBLE Cat Imb at TRC designs**

03/05/2023

Oh Vicious Besties, I'm so excited to share this special edition cover reveal with you! Once upon a time, Persephone Steele bought one of the very first covers I ever designed, and turned it into a ridiculously funny paranormal story about a blind psychic detective with two sticky-fingered (and slightly stabby) trash panda assistants. So naturally, when she asked if we could go all out and make a special edition omnibus for BABE that was as quirky, cute and fun as Wicked deserved, the answer was a resounding HECK YEAH WE CAN! Wicked's omnibus is a foiled hardback with coordinating endpapers and edges, all featuring our favorite furry fiends themselves.

Seph, thank you for all the laughs, the patience and letting me lead you blindly into cover chaos. (See what I did there?) Happy Special Edition Reveal! 🖤🦝🔪

28/04/2023

Happy Friday, Vicious Besties! I know TBT is supposed to be on a Thursday and all but... It's been an entire YEAR - A WHOLE YEAR?! - since Mallory Fox revealed these covers, and yet I realized *I've* never actually shared the full series with you all! ☠️ In that time, these have officially transitioned from special edition to alternate to the primary covers for the Violent Agenda series, and I'm so excited and so honored to have been able to work on them. 🥺🖤🔪

10/04/2023

Vicious Besties! I am so honored to wish a Happy Release Day to more than 40 contributing authors as part of Ballgowns And Books Event 2023 Anthologies, and to share a look at the event exclusive hardback wraps with you all! Every single penny raised from this duet will go directly to Hawkesbury's Helping Hands – a truly amazing nonprofit focused on providing respect, relief and support for those experiencing or at risk of homelessness. The impact this organization has on its community and those they’ve touched is…immeasurable. Thank you to Tate James, Jaymin Eve, Team BABE, and this collection of supremely talented authors for allowing me the privilege of designing these covers with you.

Featuring brand new, never before published stories across two volumes, the contemporary Billionaires and Babes and paranormal fantasy Beasts and Beauties digital anthologies are available for a limited time on Amazon and to read free in Kindle Unlimited! AND the event exclusive special edition physical copies are still available to preorder for a short time, and will feature foil stamped hardcover designs and gorgeous gilded edges! 😍

💍Billionaires and Babes: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BZ3NCVJF

🐺 Beasts and Beauties: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BZ71BWF9

✨ BABE EVENT EXCLUSIVE HARDBACK PREORDER: https://ballgownsandbooksevent.com/shop/

13/03/2023

Vicious Besties, today might be in the running for BEST MONDAY EVER because I get to share a very special surprise cover reveal with you all! Jaymin Eve - Author and Jane Washington's CURSE OF THE GODS! WILLA KNIGHT! Our favorite clumsy-cursed Dweller has a brand new special edition cover set, just in time for Ballgowns and Books Event! 😍🏹🪨

Each hardcover book in the series will be available to order signed, and will feature gold foil detailing and custom edges. These are currently ONLY available for TWO WEEKS via the BABE order form, so make sure you grab yours today!

Jay and Jane. HOLY FEELS. It has been my absolute pleasure and honor to work on these with you. 🥺 Thank you so much for the opportunity to help you create these covers, especially for a series that brings so much joy, and is a personal favorite! 🖤🖤🖤 Beyond grateful and excited. Nobody pinch me!!

LINK TO ORDER: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1adz63n4jQGlyp1hCP5uoUfZY0hXzDc_atbNF2TOG6Bs/viewform

**something something no Jeffries were harmed in the making of these covers**

09/02/2023

Vicious Besties, I’ve gotta shout a big congratulations to Jessa Wilder!! Rule Number Five is sitting at #22 in the entire Kindle store, #1 in Hockey and #1 in two additional categories! YOU DID THE DANG THING, J! 👏🥹 thank you for letting me help you with this cover. 🖤

06/02/2023

Hey Vicious Besties! It's been a bit, and I have so many things I'm dying to share with you all! It's been signing city here at Vicious so far this year, and when I tell you I cannot waaaait. SO.MANY.SPECIAL.EDITIONS!😍

In honor of that, let's do a few Special Edition Reveals this week! Book boxes, signing events, alternate covers and more, where do you like to get your favorite special editions?! I'm a sucker for book boxes and fancy foils. 👀 IMMEDIATE grabby hands.

I'm so excited to share this coordinating cover concept for Heather Long, Author 's Problem Child! The full series will be done in these covers right alongside her GORGEOUS models, and will be available in both foiled hardback and paperback at select events, and I've heard also in traditional paperback on Amazon! Heck yes!

Heather, THANK YOU for letting me help you with KC and her covers! I'm obsessed!🖤🥺🎸

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