Author of Craft Activism: People, Ideas, and Projects From the New Community of Handmade and How You Can Join In, a book of profiles and patterns, with photographer Gale Zucker (PotterCraft, 2011). Named one of the best craft books of 2011 by Amazon.com.

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Author of The Most Beautiful Villages and Towns of the Pacific Northwest, a large-format coffee-table book with photographs by Nik Wheeler (Thames & Hudson, 2010). A Pacific Northwest Independent Bookseller's best-seller.

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Author of The Wild West on 5 Bits a Day, a tongue-in-cheek, time-travel guidebook (Thames & Hudson, 2010). An alternate selection of the History Book Club.

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Author of The Most Beautiful Villages and Towns of the Southwest, a large-format coffee-table book with photographs by Nik Wheeler (Thames & Hudson, 2009).

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

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Author of Shear Spirit: Ten Fiber Farms, Twenty Patters, and Miles of Yarn,
a coffee table craft book with photography by Gale Zucker (Potter Craft, 2008)

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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.

Contributor to Caribbean Travel & Life, Hadassah Magazine, Horizon Airlines Magazine, Islands, MoreIntelligentLife.com, Robb Report, Santa Barbara Magazine, Sunset, and 805 Living, among many other publications.

Private editor for Army Wives, by Tanya Biank (St. Martin’s Press); Blood Feud, by Kathleen Sharp (Dutton); No Ordinary Heroes, by Demaree Inglese, M.D. (Kensington); Executive Intelligence, by Justin Menkes (HarperCollins Business); 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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