Author of The Most Beautiful Villages and Towns of California, a large-format coffee-table book with photographs by Nik Wheeler (2007).

 

Coming in April 2008, Shear Spirit: Ten Fiber Farms, Twenty Patterns, and Miles of Yarn, a coffee table craft book with photography by Gale Zucker (Potter Craft).

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Author of Caneel Bay:A Celebration of Fifty Years (Destination Media), a large-format coffee-table book about the famous resort founded by Laurance Rockfeller.

Author of Island Dreams - Caribbean, a large-format coffee-table book for Thames & Hudson.

Currently working on Most Beautiful Villages of the Southwest, with photographer Nik Wheeler (Thames & Hudson, fall 2009).

Frequent contributor to Brides, Caribbean Travel and Life, Diversion, Hadassah Magazine, Horizon Airlines Magazine, Islands, Robb Report, Robb Report Vacation Homes, Santa Barbara Magazine, Skyward, Town & Country Travel, Virtuoso Travel & Life, the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Daily News.

Green Turtle Cay, Phuket, Macau, Bonaire, Isla Mujeres issues of ISLAND ESCAPES.

Numerous book reviews (including 10 years as reader for Book of the Month Club).

Editor for No Ordinary Heroes, by Demaree Inglese, M.D. (Kensington); Executive Intelligence, by Justin Menkes (Harper Collins Business); Army Wives, by Tanya Biank (St. Martin's Press); The Woman in the Shaman's Body, by Barbara Tedlock (Ballantine); Mr and Mrs. Hollywood, by Kathleen Sharp (Carroll & Graf); and Alice's Garden, by Anne-Marie Castleberg (Santa Barbara Botanic Garden).


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