Preparing a Book for Traditional Publishing If you’ve been reading Parts 1-3, you know that my first book was self-published. Book #2 ...

Return to Self-Publishing Five more self-published books followed my experience with Interweave Press ( Beaded Embellishment , see Part 2...

You'll see more of this luscious bead embroidery further down in the post... For twenty-one years I've been doing beads for a livin...

Today was the second day of a little holiday market here on San Juan Island. My neighbor hosts this two-day event in her studio in December...

To Teach or Not To Teach ~ That Is The Question Reading through many of my favorite blogs in the past few days, I’ve noticed a similar thr...