Comments on: Starving Artist, Not! http://blog.entrepreneurthearts.com/2007/03/31/starving-artist-not/ Innovating Through Artistry Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:42:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Lisa Canning http://blog.entrepreneurthearts.com/2007/03/31/starving-artist-not/comment-page-1/#comment-38 Lisa Canning Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:24:51 +0000 http://entrepreneurthearts.wordpress.com/2007/03/31/starving-artist-not/#comment-38 The Dream Switch on Easter Sunday, 2009 was rejected by my former agent Susan Schulman. She dropped me as her client. Is my passion dead? Do I feel defeated? I was crushed for 24 hours, 7 minutes and 12 seconds. It was a set back- without a doubt- but the conviction about what I need to share from my heart has only grown. She wasn't that into my work... so what....I never felt an amazing connection to her. I just felt "lucky" to have her accept my first book. This is not the first impossible obstacle in life and work I have faced and it certainly won't be the last. It's the journey, dear reader, that matters to me.... not the destination. When you are doing the work you were put on this earth to do... it always is. The Dream Switch on Easter Sunday, 2009 was rejected by my former agent Susan Schulman. She dropped me as her client. Is my passion dead? Do I feel defeated? I was crushed for 24 hours, 7 minutes and 12 seconds. It was a set back- without a doubt- but the conviction about what I need to share from my heart has only grown.

She wasn’t that into my work… so what….I never felt an amazing connection to her. I just felt “lucky” to have her accept my first book.

This is not the first impossible obstacle in life and work I have faced and it certainly won’t be the last. It’s the journey, dear reader, that matters to me…. not the destination. When you are doing the work you were put on this earth to do… it always is.

]]> By: Karma Part II- I hope « Entrepreneur The Arts http://blog.entrepreneurthearts.com/2007/03/31/starving-artist-not/comment-page-1/#comment-37 Karma Part II- I hope « Entrepreneur The Arts Sun, 05 Apr 2009 13:49:16 +0000 http://entrepreneurthearts.wordpress.com/2007/03/31/starving-artist-not/#comment-37 [...] now the test– will this one pass the hurdle and make it to Borders book shelf? Will I have crested the last final [...] [...] now the test– will this one pass the hurdle and make it to Borders book shelf? Will I have crested the last final [...]

]]> By: Lisa Canning http://blog.entrepreneurthearts.com/2007/03/31/starving-artist-not/comment-page-1/#comment-36 Lisa Canning Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:48:24 +0000 http://entrepreneurthearts.wordpress.com/2007/03/31/starving-artist-not/#comment-36 The most difficult thing about being an entrepreneur is that there are no guarantees. You can make it almost to the finish line, thinking you are really going to win a race that began as hope in your heart, and everything can go wrong. My book was accepted three months after I wrote this post by a big NY agent, Susan Schulman. Susan insisted on a name change for the book and so it became <strong>Build a Blue Bike</strong>. Susan has represented two very important authors for the arts: Economist, Richard Florida- <em>Rise of The Creative Class</em> and Artist, Julia Cameron- <em>Artists' Way</em>. I thought surely my book would sell with her support. But it never did in 2008. The manuscript now resides in the back of my sock drawer, so to speak. They say that every writer has a book or two "waiting" for its moment, that has not sold. So I guess I now have one too... I am still thinking about self publishing it, but my goal was to be published by a big house. In the meantime, I am writing a new book called <strong>The Dream Switch</strong>: <em>A Journey Into Greatness</em> with sports psychologist<a href="http://media.barnesandnoble.com/?fr_story=668943c0676f38608fd301aa0c200201a6bad633&rf=sitemap" rel="nofollow"> Jason Sellk</a>. We will see if this one can make it across the finish line. Welcome to the world of entrepreneurship!! (But, know this, dear reader, despite my set backs it is all worth it. What is inside your heart to share always is!) The most difficult thing about being an entrepreneur is that there are no guarantees. You can make it almost to the finish line, thinking you are really going to win a race that began as hope in your heart, and everything can go wrong. My book was accepted three months after I wrote this post by a big NY agent, Susan Schulman. Susan insisted on a name change for the book and so it became Build a Blue Bike.

Susan has represented two very important authors for the arts: Economist, Richard Florida- Rise of The Creative Class and Artist, Julia Cameron- Artists’ Way. I thought surely my book would sell with her support. But it never did in 2008. The manuscript now resides in the back of my sock drawer, so to speak.

They say that every writer has a book or two “waiting” for its moment, that has not sold. So I guess I now have one too… I am still thinking about self publishing it, but my goal was to be published by a big house.

In the meantime, I am writing a new book called The Dream Switch: A Journey Into Greatness with sports psychologist Jason Sellk. We will see if this one can make it across the finish line. Welcome to the world of entrepreneurship!! (But, know this, dear reader, despite my set backs it is all worth it. What is inside your heart to share always is!)

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