It's official

Warner Pacific University students check out some tools of the
bookbinding trade (above and below) during my recent
presentation there.

The website for China Under the Covers: A Binder's Journey to the Roots of Books at last launched, and, judging by the orders, it works. What a relief—I was starting to think I'd be on a second edition before it went live; it just goes to show the weakest link in a publication process might be the one you think will be easiest to achieve.

Life is always full of surprises.

It's been a busy spring, including another chance to talk to Warner Pacific students about bookbinding, the power of story, and books' evolution from carved bamboo slats to the wonderful no-nonsense packages they are today.

I was just called to give a similar presentation early next year at the University Club of Portland. With an author-in-residence program, it appears to be a bastion of book lovers.

I'm also finally getting my personal library organized, one shelf dedicated to Authors I Know. If you have a story in you, but it's not on a shelf yet, what are you waiting for?

Panning right (above) and left (below), the shelf for works
by Authors I Know just keeps growing. Write on, friends!