In honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe’s feast day on December 12th, I’m giving away 5 inscribed copies of Full of Grace: Encountering Mary in Faith, Art and Life! Full of Grace takes the reader inside the Virgin Mary’s world in ancient Palestine while showing how thoroughly she inhabits the 21st century. The book touches on [...]
Are some books Kindle-proof, as this article suggests? Then let me wave my literary freak flag high: My books are illustrated with hundreds of color photographs (and illustrations, maps, floor plans, handwriting samples, etc.), incorporate fragmented page designs, and can be read front to back (or vice versa, and every way in between). The designers [...]
My favorite form of procrastination is house dreaming—that is, hanging out on Zillow and zooming around maps and photos of houses listed for sale. Usually, I’m hovering over New England but sometimes, wanting a complete break from life’s quotidian obligations, and these days there are plenty of them, I’ll travel out West or south of [...]
The reading public rarely suspects the blood, sweat, and tears that go into designing a book cover. Creating a cover that will entice bookstore browsers to pick up the book and visually convey its essence (in a glance) is ultimately more of an art than a science. The fine online journal Ancora Imparo ran the [...]
