The Book Artists: Prosper! Is Out Now!
My new book, Artists: Prosper! Make Peace With Your Brain, and Money + Joy With Your Art is out! Here’s the link. This book for artists will help you clear any blocks you’re facing in making your art. Next, it'll show you how to find the people who need your art, how to make relationships with them, and how to help them buy.
If you’ve had trouble getting started making your art, suffered from a loud inner critic, or been afraid of being visible, Artists: Prosper! will help. And if you’ve wondered about the mechanics of getting started selling your work, this book will show you how.
The culmination of three years of work
Three years ago almost to the day, I booked a room at El Tovar on the edge of the Grand Canyon and with my book coach Michelle Radomski’s help, created a self-directed 5-day writing retreat, where I outlined this book for artists.
Almost nothing I wrote on that retreat was usable
Michelle kept saying, “Trust the process.” Luckily, I did. Otherwise, I would have gotten even more upset than I already did about the fact that my first ten drafts didn’t capture what I was trying to say.
Enough about me. What does this have to do with you?
When I got stuck, I had conversations with this book. If you’re stuck somewhere in the middle of a project (or even if you’re just curious,) you can have a conversation with your project too. Do it in writing instead of in your head, and start with these questions:
- What do you want me to know about you?
- Where shall we go from here?
- Anything else?
Send me an email and tell me how this goes if you try it. I guarantee you’ll learn something.
THANKS for your support--for reading this blog, for helping me work out the ideas for the book in this writing, and for continuing to do your art, whatever form it takes.
Our work matters.