Thanks for the comments, folks. For the most part I'm pretty pleased with the results, but then I look at some of the pens in the galleries here and realize just how much I've yet to learn.
As for the wood, fortunately I've got quite a bit. I actually got into pen turning because of the wood rather than the other way around. I was introduced to stabilized woods through my Dad who is a custom knife maker (knifemakers guild member since 1976). I have always appreciated a pretty piece of wood and decided to begin buying premium exotic hardwoods and burls, stabilizing them and reselling them to knifemakers for handle material. I dabbled for a little while on ebay but put it on the back burner due to time constraints. One of my customers was a pen turner in Missouri who sent me a couple of the pens he made from the wood he purchased.I was fascinated and began researching the craft and told myself that if I ever got around to dealing in the exotic woods again that I would be using some of it myself. I've got shelves full of the stuff.
I recently quit my job, moved to a new state and built a small woodshop. I will be turning and selling pens, building jewelry boxes, selling stabilized woods and offering stabilizing services to other craftsmen. It's quite a leap but hey, you only go around once, right?