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The Successful Artist’s Career Guide:

Finding Your Way in the Business of Art

By Margaret Peot

Art is one of the best parts of your life … are you ready to make it your living? Whether you are an art student, an aspiring artist or a longtime hobbyist, Margaret Peot offers experienced advice on ways to take that next step. Through artist interviews, personal stories, worksheets and  practical tips, she’ll help you map out a personalized route toward the creative life of your dreams

In a world where artists are stereotyped as struggling and starving, this upbeat, down-to-earth guide shows you how to live, so that the business of living doesn’t halt your art-making. Embrace your passion and shape your daily life into a work of art!

The Successful Artist’s Career Guide, out March 1, 2012, is available for pre-order at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Indiebound, and on the F&W Media Website (see “Links” page for live links to these sites)

“If you have decided to make your living as an artist, you have taken a kind of leap of faith: That your ideas will move people, will be useful and desired, that you will be able to have a life making art. It is absolutely possible that you can succeed in doing so…You can hold the life you wish for in your hands, and shape it with the same care and attention to this as you do to making your art.”

-Margaret Peot, The Successful Artist’s Career Guide