Now accepting Tutorials for LE Donations UPDATED!!

[Karen Hardy]

Originally Posted by Cosmo

I have one. I used it when I did those LE posters last year. I actually have it in EPS format, so it can be scaled to any size independent of resolution.

If you need it, I'll send it to you (or to whoever it needs to go to). Just PM me the e-mail address you need me to send it to.

You are a god among men.
PMing you now...

[gubnavnania]

I haven't give anything yet to LE community but I received a lot in return. That's why I will buy the book.

[Mr. Smiley]

Thanks for all your hard work on this. I know it's taken a long time and a lot of effort. It's all very much appreciated!

[The Pear Door]

Thanks to all for the hard work that has gone into this. I can't wait to get my hands on it.

And thanks to Brent for bringing things back on track!

[swanseafarm]

Karen has sexy hot publishing skillz.

[Karen Hardy]

For the official record - I am SOOOO sorry it's taking this long.

For what it's worth, I'm going nuts having to rely on others
for some of this work. Not because they are bad or evil - just
that they are REALLY good, and have very full schedules - so they
are trying to fit me in between clients.

It's amazing how much work you can get done for the
price of a few beads and pendants . One for the
graphic designer, one for the lawyer.....

I LOVE the barter system .

[djohnjr1]

Are you going to let us know when the book is avaliable...Dawn

[Karen Hardy]

Originally Posted by djohnjr1

Are you going to let us know when the book is avaliable...Dawn

Absopositilutely. The second it's available I will put notices everywhere.

[Karen Hardy]

Okay - I need some help.
I'm having trouble matching people up
with their LE Identities.
Would the following people please PM me?
Pretty Please? With sugar on top???

Anna Duhame
Heather Ferman
Joanna Mueller
Karla Lester
Kim Hart
Laurie Donnette
Leah Pellegrini
Mike Marsh
Nicole Carlson
Sarah J Schalken
Stacy Braiuca

Also - if any of you KNOWS who is who - and
can help me track them down, Please let me know.

Yeah, I know...with over 2000 posts, I should be able
to match "mary smith" to "glassymomma" and so on,
but remember - I was hired for my looks .....

Thanks everyone!

[Bubbyanne]

PM'd you Karen.

[Karen Hardy]

It has come to my attention that some of you are concerned about the
contracts I have sent out – and also about the fact that some of you were
not even AWARE that your tutorial was being considered for the book. Before
there is a lot of misunderstanding and bad feelings, I’d like to do my best to
clear it up.

Re: the tutorials.
When I first took over this gig, I was sent a batch of tutorials from people
that had already submitted them. IN ADDITION to that, I also took the liberty
of cutting and pasting some of MY personal favorites from the tutorials
section into Word documents with the hope that we could also include them.
AT NO TIME was I EVER going to use these tutorials without express
written authorization from the authors. Ever!
Again – this was MY doing. The tutorials in the tutes section are absolutely
safe from “accidentally” ending up in print. It was never going to happen.
Most of the people who got my email telling them that I had a tutorial
with their name on it and wanted to use it were thrilled to hear that I wanted
them included. Some people were not interested, and I went ahead and
deleted those from the batch. It was NOT a problem – nor was it ever going
to be. I hope that clarifies how some of the tutorials got to be in my hands
without the authors knowing about it. If I offended anyone by wanting to use
their work, I’m truly sorry.

Re: The contracts.
The only people who received contracts were those who either submitted
work, or whose work I wanted to use. There were a total of 40 of you.
The sole purpose of the contract/authors release form is to cover MY
ass. Nothing more. Do I care that you have this tutorial plastered on
every website from here to Timbuktu? Not at all. Am I going to ask the other
websites to remove the tutorials? Never. What your contract does is provide
me with the legal right to put your tutorial into a printed form and offer it to
the public. It also covers my ass in case one of those other websites comes
after me and tells ME that I don’t have permission to use the tutorial because
it belongs to them. While it’s very easy to hit the delete button and remove
a page from a website, to remove a tutorial from a book that has already
been published is a nightmare from hell. It would be incredibly costly and
would necessitate having the whole book reformatted to clean it up because
of those missing pages. I do NOT want to have to go through that.

The contract also gives me the right to use your tutorial to promote the book
via the internet or other angles, like ads and promotions on other websites
(such as LE) and print. The contract is derived from the standard contract
that I am sent for all of my magazine articles. Actually, it’s about half the size
of MY contracts. I only wanted the pertinent information there – and I had
this checked out and revamped by an attorney who specializes in contracts,
again, just to make sure that my tushy was covered from all angles. No
publisher in their right mind would ever put someone else’s work into a book
without making sure that they have a contract/authors release in hand. It
would be insanity to do so.

Re: Offering people free books. This totally bothers me. It actually does make
me sad that I cannot offer anyone free books who submits a tutorial. The
truth of it is, this is a project to help bring money to LE. Corri is not getting
rich off of this (I mean, I HOPE she makes SOME money, but it costs a lot of
money and time to keep the servers going and the forum cleaned up and up
to date).

This forum is a GREAT resource for many people, and no one should have any
expectation that she should be doing all this work and taking time away from
HER family AND end up losing money to do so. Back to the “free” books – I
really wish I could give everybody a free one, but that would mean that I
would personally have to buy it for all of you. I too am donating my
services to head this up, and I am also paying a lot of people to help out with
this (with beads and jewelry). I am not asking for any money, except to
cover any expenses associated with getting this book out. There are no
shopping trips to Nordstrom’s or expensive shoes in this for me either. I am
NOT getting a free copy either, nor is Corri.

This book is a labor of love, allowing all the talented people here to showcase
their talents and – at the same time help this site keep running. The authors
who contribute will also be able to add to their resume by saying that their
work has appeared in a book. This can be a great benefit and ego booster to
the budding author who lacks credentials. Honestly, that’s why I have
undertaken to edit this book. This is going to look really good for me too, and
I hope to continue and put out other versions of tutorial books in the future.
Heaven knows I’ve learned what NOT to do, so the next book should be done
in 1/20th the time!

Probably – the best I could offer would be to let the people whose tutorials
are being used in the book the opportunity to purchase it at cost (which
would be the price minus the $5 for LE that we are adding on to the cost). I
would be happy to do that. Again – I am doing this as a fun project, and I’m
anticipating that we MIGHT sell a few hundred of these if we are lucky –
mostly to LE members. Sure, it would be great if this hit the #1 spot on the
NY Times bestseller lists, but I don’t foresee this happening. At best, it’s
going to be a quirky little book with a whole bunch of fun tutorials that you
can schlep with you from event to event and have all the authors sign their
projects for you. Harry Potter it’s not.

So – please understand. I totally respect the work of each and every one of
you who has contributed (and those who’s tutorials I wanted to use). I would
NEVER do anything sneaky or try and take advantage of any of you. I think
that those of you that know me personally, understand that I would never do
something like that. Integrity and trust and honor are things that you can’t
easily repair if you burn people, and I would never want to – or give anyone
the feeling that I did – mislead anyone.

Please, please, please – if anyone has ANY problems with either the
contracts, the wording, the costs, etc. Please feel free to PM me and I will do
my best to clear it up for you. I will not be angry or resentful if anyone does
not want to participate either. Just PM me and ask me to remove your
tutorial. No hard feelings.

Also, since we’ve had a few people drop out, I now have a little more room to
squeeze in a few more pages, so if any of you have a tutorial that you would
like to include, please slap it into a DOC format and send it to me.

Oh – and for those of you who are choosing to continue on with this project
– I cannot tell you how much I appreciate it. This has been going on for two
years, and been through many loving hands, who for one reason or another,
could not finish it – but did move it further along the path to completion. The
kindness many of you have shown to me is just awesome. I hope that when
this comes together, you will all be proud of all your work and patience, and
that the final result will exceed your expectations!

As an end note – I would really appreciate if people don’t post any mean or
inflammatory responses here regarding my post. If you want to complain,
please take it up with me personally. I’ve got a thick skin, and I won’t be
offended if you want to vent.

[Jacinthe]

Hi Karen,
Sent you an PM!

[Ever After]

Im Laurie Donnette, lol!!! but I think you have that figured out now,

[Karen Hardy]

Originally Posted by Bubbyanne

PM'd you Karen.

You are so awesome.
Thanks for helping me match up all those names
to their LE counterparts.

[SadiesJewels]

Hi Karen ... can we be sure that the articles we have submitted have not been edited (content wise) - spelling and grammer excepted? I had a disclaimer in it that I want to make sure is still there. Just checking - smile.

I personally was thrilled to have an article in print!

[Karen Hardy]

Originally Posted by SadiesJewels

Hi Karen ... can we be sure that the articles we have submitted have not been edited (content wise) - spelling and grammer excepted? I had a disclaimer in it that I want to make sure is still there. Just checking - smile.

I personally was thrilled to have an article in print!

How about I shoot you over a copy of what I was given and
you can check it out? PM me if you don't get it in a few hours.

[dgg112]

WOW Karen You're my hero for taking this on!!!!
thanks thanks thanks!!!!!

[Ladyhoss67]

Just checking in how's it coming...?! Trying to wait very patiently....smiles.
I feel like a little kid waiting to go to Disney World!!

Thank you so much Karen for doing this, I KNOW it's a LOT of work.

[Karen Hardy]

Originally Posted by Ladyhoss67

Just checking in how's it coming...?! Trying to wait very patiently....smiles.
I feel like a little kid waiting to go to Disney World!!

Thank you so much Karen for doing this, I KNOW it's a LOT of work.

You and me both, sister.
It's coming along. Right now, the holdup is waiting for
people to send back their authors release forms.

There was a bit of controversy (she said pointing to the bald spots on her head) about people not wanting
to sign these - but I let everyone know that I would have to be out of my ever loving mind to publish anyone
else's work without their written consent.

So now it's mostly a sit and wait game.
I am currently holed up in a beautiful cabin in the boonies
making jewelry, drinking bloody Mary's at 10 am and working
on my tan. When I get back, I will see how many of the releases
I received and proceed from there.

[Ladyhoss67]

OHHH sounds nice!!

I need to still sign a release form for the rose tut and the pics if you need one for those too.
I'll get them printed,signed and mailed as soon as you email it to me.

thanks Karen

[FordGirlGoneBad]

Any updates????

[Karen Hardy]

I'm still waiting on quite a few release forms.
Without those, I can't publish the tutorials .

I told people I would give it until about 30 days after
I got back from Glass Stock, and then - depending on
how many tutorials I can use, I would either finish the
book or, if there's not enough, work with the authors
to help get them published in another format.

[Ladyhoss67]

OH PRETTY PLEASE HURRY PEOPLE!!! I wanna see the book. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE sign your form and get it in.

[Ms.Giggles]

Thank you Karen for taking this on. Will there be a tutorial on how you do your beautiful copper work? I have total necklace envy since I saw you wearing it at Glassstock.
Carol

[Karen Hardy]

Originally Posted by dogzbreath

Thank you Karen for taking this on. Will there be a tutorial on how you do your beautiful copper work? I have total necklace envy since I saw you wearing it at Glassstock.
Carol

HA! I wish! That would take a gazillion pages and twice as many pictures.
Plus, I don't plan them, so they're never the same twice.

What I told people is that I wanted this to be the first one that I did, and then I
would do a wire one for my wire friends.

[Bubbyanne]

Can I be a wire friend?

[Beadbug]

I would love to have one of these so will be watching and reading and waiting....

[cherie]

me too...looking forward to it!

[cherie]

Any Updates???

[Karen Hardy]

Originally Posted by cherie

Any Updates???

Hi Cherie,
It's never been "off" the burner, but I was very sick in the
last few months and I had to step back and take care of myself
for a while. I only just was able to get back on a torch about
two weeks ago after not being able to touch it since Glass
Stock in Sept.

Anyway, mostly better - so no pity party. I've got two more
people that just contacted me for their contracts (they're a
little slow about reading their emails - but they're both awfully cute,
so I cut them some slack ). I'm finishing up some custom
orders and then going full time on this till it's done.