{"id":2227,"date":"2015-05-09T09:11:27","date_gmt":"2015-05-09T13:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/?p=2227"},"modified":"2015-05-09T09:11:27","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T13:11:27","slug":"i-love-handmade-books-by-charlotte-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/i-love-handmade-books-by-charlotte-rivers\/","title":{"rendered":"I Was Featured in I Love Handmade Books by Charlotte Rivers!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ruth<\/p>\n

Is there anything more exciting than seeing your name in print? (except maybe\u00c2\u00a0in the police blotter in the newspaper<\/em>)\u00c2\u00a0I am\u00c2\u00a0thrilled\u00c2\u00a0to reveal\u00c2\u00a0that I was featured in Charlotte Rivers’ latest publication I Love\u00c2\u00a0Handmade Books<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0,\u00c2\u00a0also published under the title\u00c2\u00a0The Little Book of Book Making<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0in the US.<\/p>\n

I’m not a big goal-setter – some people swear by writing down goals, making “vision boards”, changing their computer passwords to remind them daily of goals – all of these are great ideas, but a little Type-A for me. HOWEVER, I will admit\u00c2\u00a0that a couple years ago I did say, out loud, “I’d love to be in a craft book someday”. WELL GUESS WHAT, THAT DAY IS…well, actually many days ago, I just never got around to blogging about it, shame on me!<\/p>\n

\"Accordion<\/p>\n

About a year ago, Charlotte Rivers, author of \u00c2\u00a0The Little Book of Letterpress<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 sent me an email asking if I’d like to participate in her upcoming collection of handmade books! After shrieking like a little girl, I typed back something much more professional like “yes I’d love to, thank you for considering me!”<\/p>\n

If you’re wondering HOW I got in a craft book, I don’t have the exact answer, but I suspect Charlotte found me online because I take lots and lots of photos of my work, and I’ve worked hard to learn to use both my camera and Photoshop so that I can show my books off in their best light.\u00c2\u00a0Then I post them to Flickr or my blog (I’ve had this blog since 2007) and that means when authors are looking around for crafters to feature, and type in “handmade book” into the Google, hopefully I come up! Keep in mind I put my stuff out there for 7 years before this great opportunity came along, so it’s not a matter of “going viral” or any of that other internet-speak.<\/p>\n

\"Coptic<\/p>\n

I was just one of many talented bookbinders and book artists featured in the colorful 176-page book, described thusly by Amazon:\u00c2\u00a0“Making books by hand has never been cooler, with this inspiring guide to 30 top bookmakers working today, plus 21 tutorials for essential techniques to make your own books.”<\/b><\/p>\n

I furnished the photos myself, I was asked to provide up to 40, and I decided to offer as many as I could!<\/p>\n

When the book arrived (just after I arrived home from the Penland School of Crafts<\/a>) I was absolutely excited and delighted to find that I’d been featured multiple times!<\/p>\n

Since I am only featured in the book and not an author, I don’t get any royalties from the sales, but if you purchase the book through this link (and yes, the cover is different, because this is the US version – the content is all the same) : The Little Book of Handmade Books<\/a> – then I’ll get a small percentage of the sales price at no additional cost to you as part of the Amazon affiliate program.<\/p>\n

\"Suminagashi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is there anything more exciting than seeing your name in print? (except maybe\u00c2\u00a0in the police blotter in the newspaper)\u00c2\u00a0I am\u00c2\u00a0thrilled\u00c2\u00a0to reveal\u00c2\u00a0that I was featured in Charlotte Rivers’ latest publication I Love\u00c2\u00a0Handmade Books\u00c2\u00a0,\u00c2\u00a0also published under the title\u00c2\u00a0The Little Book of Book Making\u00c2\u00a0in the US. I’m not a big goal-setter – some people swear by writing down […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[99,1],"tags":[291,292,290,289],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2227"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2238,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions\/2238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}