Goodreads asked Pamela R. Anderson-Bartholet:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Pamela R. Anderson-Bartholet My poetry chapbook--"Just the Girls" A Kaleidoscope of Butterflies; A Drift of Honeybees"--includes poems that are many years old AND many new poems, including a short series of yoga-themed poems. The idea of the book came about when I decided to write a poem for each of my nieces and my daughter...as a Christmas gift. I spent a year writing those poems. And then I wanted to assemble them into a book that I could have bound at Kinko's so I could present each of them with this little "collection." I took a good look at everything I had written and just knew that this book "needed" (wanted) to be completely female centered, and that's when I added the older poems and the yoga poems. After that, I decided to submit the collection which--very happily--was accepted by The Poetry Box Press for publication (I submitted the collection to this press, partly because the publisher is a woman AND because I personally like her writing). The final "touch" came with my asking my daughter and niece-in-law (both featured in a poem in the collection and both artists) to co-create the cover art, which I absolutely love. Obviously, the entire "thing" was a lengthy process.

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