Posted in Bead One Pray Too: About the Book, Book Reviews, tagged Art Bead Scene. book review, prayer beads on June 3, 2008 | No Comments »
While I was away in Los Angeles, I received an email from Heather Powers, the highly creative brain behind the Art Bead Scene blog and creator of some gorgeous, lust-worthy beads. She let me know that she had posted a review of Bead One, Pray Too on her site and I am so pleased! It [...]
Posted in Bead One Pray Too: About the Book, tagged prayer beads on May 11, 2008 | No Comments »
This must be my lucky weekend! Not only did Bead One, Pray Too appear in an article in The Toledo Blade (see last post!) but it was also in an article in The Grand Rapids Press - on the same day! Thank you Juanita Westaby for a great article, and thanks to my friend and [...]
Posted in Bead One Pray Too: About the Book, tagged prayer beads on May 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Yeah! Here is the article about the trunk show of the prayer beads from Bead One, Pray Too currently on display at Maumee, Ohio’s Bonita Bead Boutique. The article appears in today’s Toledo Blade. Thank you, David Yonke, religion reporter extraordinaire! I love the part of the story about the sisters, Anita and Ann, who [...]
Posted in Bead One Pray Too: About the Book, Book Reviews, tagged book review, Katie Hacker on May 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Beader-extraordinaire Katie Hacker was gracious enough to write a very positive review about Bead One, Pray Too on her excellent blog. Take a look. I am very flattered - she is a beading superstar. I am over the moon about this. Will have champagne tonight!
Posted in Bead One Pray Too: About the Book on April 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I am often a very lucky girl. About six weeks ago, as I was marketing Bead One, Pray Too to independent bead stores, I received a call from Ann Tristan, co-owner with her identical twin sister Anita, of Bonita Bead Boutique in Maumee, Ohio. Ann thought the book sounded like a good fit for the [...]
Posted in Bead One Pray Too: About the Book on April 9, 2008 | No Comments »
I must have been an extra good girl lately because the good stuff just keeps on a-comin’ my way. Diane Gilleland, the brains behind CraftyPod just did the most lovely spread and review of both Bead One, Pray Too and Fabric of Faith. What I most liked about her review is that she hones right [...]
Posted in Bead One Pray Too: About the Book, tagged labyrinth, prayer beads, tree of life on March 18, 2008 | No Comments »
On Monday I received an email query via Morehouse, my publisher, saying that a customer who had bought the book had called the company to ask a question - where did I get the terminal charms pictured on the cover of the book?
Wanting to reward such ingenuity (how did she find the phone number? Is [...]
Posted in Bead One Pray Too: About the Book on March 7, 2008 | 4 Comments »
My baby was delivered today in a brown padded envelope by the mail carrier at about 1:30 p.m!
Oh, how wonderful to open a package and, for the very first time, feel the heft of a year and more’s worth of work. Please forgive me if I do go on too much, but there is just [...]
Posted in Bead One Pray Too: About the Book, tagged book review on January 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Publishers Weekly has given Bead One, Pray Too a starred review, the highest the magazine gives! I am so, so happy! The review will appear in the Jan. 28 issue of the print magazine, but can be viewed here online at the magazine’s religion book newsletter, Religion BookLine.
The review means a lot to me for [...]
