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Enthusiasm is infectious... It is essential to convey enthusiasm for your work and for the job of meeting people and selling to them. Art is a luxury, so people need to enjoy buying it. The Artist's Guide to Selling Work by Annabelle Ruston-
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“It’s a no” – rejection can be swift
The hardest thing for a writer to cope with is rejection. We all pour so much of ourselves into our writing, we invest it with so many of our hopes, that it’s impossible not to take rejection as a personal blow.
So, what should you do? Partly it depends on the form of the rejection. If your work is returned to sender with the flimsiest of covering notes – ‘unfortunately we don’t believe we Read more
Can’t eat, can’t sleep, can’t write
Filed under: Authors and Books
The author Marian Keyes has brought depression into the world of writing news again. She recently admitted that she can’t eat, sleep, write or talk to people, and wonders if she will ever emerge from her darkness.
Depression is a common ailment, and some – such as Kay Redfield Jamison – suggest that there’s a link between it and the artistic temperament.
Could it be that the qualities which make a person creative also make them Read more
How to deal with rejection letters
Filed under: Authors and Books, Getting Published
Behind every published author is someone who’s had to deal with rejection. But how do you get over it? Guest blogger novelist Emma Bowd shares her experiences of dealing with the dreaded ‘no thank you’ letters.
As a published author, I can have the luxury of saying that rejection letters are an absolute rite-of-passage. But I’m also not so far away from the coal face to have quite forgotten the sting of Read more
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