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I love the author's work and hate to write a poor review but this book is a poor teacher of lettering. There are MANY practice pages but little instruction. Really it's just a book of faux calligraphy practice pages with arrows showing the direction of the letters and telling you to pick up your pen between letters. This information can be widely accessed by free lettering sources. In purchasing a $30.00 book I expect more inside information, tips and tricks and showing me HOW she achieves her style of lettering, etc... For example, the flourishes pages literally just tells you that flourishes and illustrations are great to add to your lettering then shows you a 2" x 2" example of the author's own "Bless Your Heart" design (with zero instructions on how she achieved it) and has about a 6"x3" area next to that design that says "Practice Here." So essentially you can just google "chalk full of love bless your heart" and see the image of that design and practice it yourself and you've received the same amount of info on flourishing as she gives in the book. Unfortunately this book is a well marketed and branded exterior of book with little helpful content within.