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Here are the links to download your free holiday novels: Please note the books are available in two formats. epub (for must readers but Kindle. Download. Unzip and load onto your reader) pdf - suitable for desktop reader None of the formats are intended to work with...

CONFIDENT CREATING If you want to live a creative life and make your mark in some competitive art field like writing, film-making, the visual arts, or music, and if at the same time you want to live an emotionally healthy life full of love and satisfaction, you need...

Here are eight tips for getting the most out of the next gallery opening you attend. Read on! 1. Engage with the art. You may have come for some other reason, maybe to network, to flirt, to get out of the studio, or to get some free food, but there is also art to see!...

What artists don’t struggle with the problem of framing their art? Are there any good answers? Read on! Since the framing of art is almost always the artist’s responsibility, since frames cost real money, and since it’s hard to sell art, buying frames for your art can...

We’ve chatted for the past two weeks about how to ask for money. Let’s finish up with three more essential tips. Read on! 1. Follow up on your requests Don’t send an email and take silence to mean that your email was unwelcome, that you’ve been rejected, or anything...

Last week we looked at three tips for asking for money. Here are three more! Read on … Be affirmative, brief, and clear – the ABC rule! How you ask for money is important. No one likes (or needs) lengthy pleas, whiny or negative pleas, or confused or confusing pleas....

You need money for art supplies, building your website, your marketing efforts, and, well, just to live! One challenge is figuring out where to look for the money you need. But a second challenge is equally pressing: being able to ask for what you need and want. Here...

What should you do when meaning vanishes? Here’s a four-step technique to try! Read on … Every day we’re bombarded by small (and sometimes large) threats to our experience of life as meaningful. Maybe you get a painful rejection from a gallery. Suddenly painting (and...

Does your brain race? I suspect it does! Nature evolves a creature like us, gives us a super-sized, experimental brain, and tries out thinking. What a fascinating capacity with which to aid or burden a creature! Since the goal of nature is not to evolve perfection but...

Anyone who puts work on public display invites criticism. What are the best ways to deal with the criticism that may be coming? Read on! 1. Grow a thicker skin Your prime strategy is to grow a thicker skin and let criticism bounce right off of you. If your skin is...