We wish you happy holidays and look forward to a New Year that is filled with health and happiness. We so appreciate everyone who has continued to support Sunbelt Publications during this very difficult pandemic. It has been a year filled with changes. In person events were moved online through programs like Zoom. We have adjusted to this “new normal” by starting our Sunbelt Spotlight series, intimate sessions with your favorite authors. One benefit to hosting events online is that they can be recorded and made available for folks to watch at a later date. Spotlight recordings can be viewed on our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/SunbeltPub

It was also a year that saw the publication of California Indian Basketry: Ikons of the Florescence, a book that has been in production for over three years. Most books are birthed in nine months from editing, to design, to printing. This book had a gestation period almost twice that of the gestation period of an African elephant (645 days). We are very happy that the long labor of this magnificent book is finally over and that we will begin shipping orders in December.

Another blessing has been our very own customers and associated friends that stepped forward during Covid-19 to help fund the publication of our latest book in the Sunbelt Color & Learn series: Coloring Southern California Butterflies & Caterpillars by Bill Howell, instructor extraordinaire for the San Diego Natural History Museum Canyoneers and Mission Trails Regional Park Trail Guides. Bill is graciously donating his royalties to the SDNHM, just as Wendy Esterly and Brad Hollingsworth have done for their books: Coloring Southern California Birds and Coloring Lizards, Snakes, & More Southern California.

We are really looking forward to retail stores, museums, and visitor centers opening with a more normal business situation. Our hearts go out to all those suffering and impacted by Covid-19. We wish everyone a healthy and better year ahead.

Diana Lindsay, President
Sunbelt Publications