It started because the books we wanted didn't exist yet.
After thirty years of teaching and painting, GJ Gillespie kept hitting the same wall every working artist hits: thin paper, broken bindings, covers that gave up before the trip did. So he and Teresa designed the book they wished they could buy. Then they started selling it.
"We named it for Leda — the swan of Greek myth, mother of Helen of Troy and the twin stars Castor and Pollux. We liked that her name belongs to things that outlast the people who made them."
— GJ & Teresa Gillespie, Kirkland, WA
