Sarena SchumacherSarena Schumacher grew up in Bremerton, Washington, and attended film school at Seattle Central College. Her inspiration for the Skully world began after she moved to Orcas Island and began seasonal work as a park aide at Shaw County Park. During tha time, she made bead strings and suspended them in the park's outhouse for campers to take. After many people had asked her who was making the bead strings, Schumacher invented the Skully family and installed their likeness in the outhouse so that visitors could meet the creators of the bead strings themselves. Dagney Skully and the Pendulum Bead Strings is her first book and is based on real events. Schumacher lives on a tranquil thirty-acre property with her three tiny dogs and her farm dog, Jack. San Juan Island is her home. Read More Read Less