Some time back I got an email from Jennifer Forest of Jane Austen’s Sewing Box fame. She was inviting me to take part in her latest book, which was going to be a series of interviews with crafty people (and we mean that in the nicest possible way!)
Of course, I was thrilled to be asked, and only too happy to be involved! Jennifer interviewed me, I supplied her with some photos, and that was that from my point of view. Obviously there was a lot more work to go into it for Jennifer. 🙂
I received another email from Jennifer this week to let me know that the book, entitled Crafty Girls Talk is now out.
She also let me know that as a special to launch “Crafty Girls Talk” there is a free giveaway this weekend for the Kindle version. You can download the Kindle version free and read it directly on your iPhone, iPad, Kindle or Kindle Fire. You can also download the Kindle App to your desktop computer to read the book.
The free giveaway runs from Friday 21 September through to Sunday 23 September, Amazon time which is California USA time. As we don’t all live in the US, Jennifer provided the following time suggestions:
“For Australians, this means that you can access the free download from about 5pm Friday to 5pm Monday. For New Zealanders this will be two hours later, from 7pm Friday to 7pm Monday. For the UK you can access it from 8am Friday to 8am Sunday.”
I haven’t read or seen the book yet (other than its cover!), but I expect it will be a really interesting read. The sorts of questions Jennifer asked me included:
“How did you get to where you are today? What did you do when you left school? Did you know what you wanted to do? Is your background / experience relevant to your business?”
“It always sounds so exciting, and far better than a desk job, to be running your own crafty, design or creative business. But what does that actually mean, what do you do each day? Describe a typical day.”
I don’t know whether the answers to all the questions she asked will be included – I guess that’s a question of how she edited all the information I gave her, both in my written answers, and when we talked on the phone. It will be interesting to see how she’s crafted all that information into an interesting and readable article.
I’m also looking forward to reading the other participants’ interviews. I have no idea who else was included, so I’m really keen to find out! Actually, I’ve just found that there’s a “look inside” feature on the Kindle version page, so you can have a little preview like I did. It looks great!
The Crafty Girls interviewed are: Tanya Marie Willis Anderson, Nancy Bell, Fiona Clark, Pat Dalton, Jan DiCintio, Elizabeth Dubbelde, Nicole Farrell, Arwen O’Reilly Griffith, Glenna Harris, Kim Hurley, Sally Lewis, Michelle Perdue, Rosalie Quinlan, Rebecca Ringwald, Lynne Sharpe, Yvette Stanton, Becky Striepe, Melissa Wastney, Tamara Watts, Morgan Wills and Marie Yolande.
Some of those names I recognise (and would love to read their stories) and others are new to me – more interesting people to learn about!
Congratulations to Jennifer on what promises to be another fascinating book!
White Threads is the blog of Yvette Stanton, the author, designer, publisher behind Vetty Creations' quality needlework books and embroidery products.
What a great offer! Now to count down the hours until I can download it to my Kindle.
Took 2 minutes to download the book. Thanks Yvette. What a super offer!