Author Career / Author Marketing
by Beth Barany · Published August 8, 2018 · Last modified August 7, 2018
“Learning the business side of selling your art is hard,” they say. An artist can’t learn business. An artist doesn’t want to learn how to do business. Their personality isn’t suited for business, and...
Hello Writers! It’s true! If you want to make a career as a novelist, you are creating a business. Well, you don’t have to wonder what that means as an artist… My friend and...
One of the first things I learned was that the book proposal is basically a “business plan” for your book. Besides outlining the book itself, you need to define your market of readers, you need to set yourself apart from similar books out there, and, you need to describe how you’ll get the word out. All of these are similar to the building blocks that go into a business plan.
I learned yesterday in an awesome Human Design session with Julien Adler just how much I’m blazing my own trail. Darn! I look out into the field of other artist entrepreneurs and wonder how I can be more like them… Oops! I mean, what can I learn from them. Because I’m walking my own path. Other artist entrepreneurs like…
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