When I set out to design our 2010 holiday card, I began with a pile of odd sized scraps of printmaking paper I’d found while cleaning out a closet. My husband pointed out that the 2-1/2 x 10” paper scraps were not a customary greeting card shape and would not fit into standard envelopes. As logical [...]

In my last post I wrote about turning my studio into a retreat, my own private Breadloaf, a one-woman MacDowell Colony. There my imagination would roam unhindered by worries about everything that’s going on in the world at large, and the publishing world in particular. Such a charming idea. But I want to change the [...]

Waiting for the print-publishing world to settle down and start buying again a a real downer. You can start to spend way too much time trying to read the minds of editors and publishers. You wonder if you should change your style. Switch subjects? Do a complete rewrite of the manuscript you love?  And surely [...]