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.

Currently working on Craft Activism, with photographs by Gale Zucker, a book of profiles and DIY projects, to be published by Potter Craft in fall 2011.

Contributor to Beach, Caribbean Travel & Life, Hadassah Magazine, Horizon Airlines Magazine, Islands, Robb Report Vacation Homes, Rosewood Magazine, Santa Barbara Magazine, Skyward, and Sunset.

Editor for Army Wives, by Tanya Biank (St. Martin’s Press); 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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