{Good News Alert}

I have some fun news to share with you all. During these trying times, doing everything possible to keep things positive & uplifting. Yesterday I was offered and accepted a two book deal with the extraordinary publisher, Gibbs Smith. They create beautiful books that we have long collected personally and sold for many years at WK. Their tag lines is, To Enrich and Inspire Humankind. Oh my word, sign me up! I feel such a connection to their message and to the awesome folks at the company. Writing a book is a very unique process. You become a team with your publisher, and working well with and liking those that make up your squad is paramount. I am very excited to get started and am pretty over the moon to put out into the world book 2 and 3! The first one is about entertaining. Titles can always change, but ‘The imPerfect Host’ is the idea. My feeling has always been that striving for perfection is what stops so many folks from having guests over. No one is a perfect host. Accepting that takes tons of the pressure off. It will be filled with entertaining ideas/tips, table settings and recipes. The second, an homage to our homes. Design ideas for town, beach and country–where style abounds. I will write, style & photograph the books, which gets me incredibly excited creatively. So many of you were with me every step of the way for ‘Style & Simplicity’ which meant the world to me, so I have been incredibly excited to share this news with you all. Plenty more about both books as the process begins…