We each have the capacity to enact the poetical science of business artistry ourselves. It just takes exponentially longer, is lonelier, and is potentially not as effective than if we created and innovated more spaces to collaborate and debate.
The publishing world is tricky to navigate. We decipher the latest trends and news and forging the best relationships to help you advance your books.
In this disrupted economy rich with entrepreneurial king and queen makers, it’s tempting to slip into some fantasy, really a siren’s call, of luxury and easy routes and comfort.
“Family” is not something you often feel at writer’s conferences. But when I first spoke to Sharon Oard Warner back in 2003 about the Taos Summer Writer’s Conference she founded in 1998, I told Warner that it seemed as if…
A creative insight can be as small as landing on an angle for a blog post or as big as discovering a fresh angle for a new book or business launch.
The moment you gain such an insight flashes like lightning – and vanishes like lightning. If you are not prone to pay attention to such moments, you likely will lose the insight and certainly not be able to replicate the conditions to have such insights again.
But can you become aware of such moments? And can you replicate them?
In this Books That Matter interview, Justine Musk clues us in to recognizing herself in a Stephen King character, the admiration she has for characters that own their flaws, and that she is just getting started.
In our first Books That Matter interview of 2015, Chris Brogan shares his love of Ender’s Game, his disdain for marketing and business books, and his desire to live in the world of Marvel Comics.
As business artists, we’re tugged by oppositional forces. On one tug, you might savor your solitary creative time but protect and hoard your public engagement time. That’s why my team and I show several writers and designers in this ilk ways…
To be a brave artist or business artist means you challenge the World of Buzz and deliver a different kind of medicine than the white noise being broadcast.
Here’s to the creative heroes – the people you admire and who reflect the best in you back.
The people who risk their comfort to make part of the world a little better.
The people who will not be hushed, squashed, or swept aside in service of their creative medicine.
The people who still work hard every day because they find value in real work and in the soul of craft.
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