Publishing The Cabins of Wilsonia filled my life with new skills, experiences, people, and places.

Look at this list of skills:

1. Using a laptop – before this project, my sole computer experience was on desktops. 
2. Preparing pencil drawings using a scanner, a real scanner, not just a bargain print/fax/scan/copy thing that sounds like a deal until it needs ink (a week after you buy it).
3. Adobe Photoshop Elements – Adobe is completely non-intuitive to this Apple-girl. Elements is the “easy” version of Photoshop. . . fall down laughing.
4. Adobe InDesign – even now, seven years after beginning the book, each time I open up InDesign to begin a new project, it feels almost as if I have never seen the program before. I say that I “learned” to use it, but those lessons were hard won and hard to hang onto.

Next time, you’ll see a list of what these skills led me to.