A year or so ago, I sold a bottle cap & button ring on Etsy. It sold to Darien Gee, who mentioned that she had a book out, Friendship Bread. Being busy with a show at the time, I didn't get around to checking it out. A couple of weeks ago I went to my local library, looking around for something to read. I spotted a new book of hers, The Avalon Ladies Scrapbooking Society, and began to leaf through it idly. It seemed fall open naturally to page 85, and I started to read. Imagine my surprise when I spotted this passage: "She picks up one of the sparkly vintage rhinestone rings rimmed by a silvery bottle cap and slips it onto her finger." It goes on to describe "a large rhinestone gracing the center of the ring, an orbit of small silver balls encircling it." My ring, in a published novel! I read further, and found a description of another piece made of "a vintage gold button resting on a champagne pink bottle cap" - another piece that was on my Etsy shop. One of her characters - a woman who makes bottle cap jewelry. I'm surprised and thrilled to have something I made show up in a nationally published novel. Thanks, Darien!
