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How To Succeed in the Art Business
This is an evolving labor of love and ongoing work.
Once upon a time (see what I did there?) I was a kid with a dream. Star Wars had awakened something in me, and I wanted to make more stories in that crazy universe! But more than that, my imagination turned to creating my own stories. This would lead to my first full book, 50 pages of handwritten and illustrated sci-fi. I wrote Wildfire when I was 9 years old.
I wrote on and off for years. My first 36-page typed book, The Secret Computer World, was finished when I was 13 years old. It might have been inspired by Tron (or been my take on the same idea and ever-so-slightly derivative). At age 17, I wrote a short story technothriller called Secrets Withheld that won me an award in my school.
More stories were started and went unfinished along the way. I tried my hand in college at professional theatre and professional radio while still doing bouts of writing. But I had bought into the idea that writers only make money if they get super lucky (because people in theatre and radio somehow do better. Yeah, no.)
After college, during downtime at my first real job, I started writing again. This would evolve into my fantasy series The Source Chronicles. Book one, , would be my first foray into hiring a professional editor. She didn’t…
