Few artists achieve fame and fortune, but that doesn't mean your creative life can't flourish. Writer, illustrater, zinemaker, and playwright Ayun Halliday interviewed dozens of creative people and shared her own experiences to produce this rallying cry for the "small potato"—someone whose focus is making cool, meaningful work and living a creative life rather than achieving wealth or celebrity. Sections range from the practice of artmaking to wrangling self-doubt to DIY marketing and self-promotion. Along the way, Halliday shows that your art can bring you satisfaction, success, community, and a modest income—without losing sight of your reasons for doing it in the first place.
SUBJECT: Art and Design / Microcosm Published / Creativity / Writing
PUBLICATION: May 10, 2022
PRICE: $14.95
ISBN: 9781648410598
FORMAT: 288 pages, paperback
WHOLESALE: $8.97
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Marketing Notes
- Creativity doesn't have to be monetized in order to be fulfilling
- Small-time artists and crafters have found satisfaction in selling their wares on eCommerce sites such as Etsy
- The size of the creative industry, which includes crafting, in the United States was a staggering $44 billion in 2016, up from $30.1 billion in 2011
Ayun Halliday is the Chief Primatologist of the long running, award-winning zine, The East Village Inky, and co-founder of Theater of the Apes. She is the author of seven books, including No Touch Monkey! And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late and the Zinester’s Guide to NYC. She created and hosts the ongoing Off-Off-Broadway variety show, Necromancers of the Public Domain. Ayun lives in New York City with her husband, playwright Greg Kotis.
A small, innovative publishing house, Microcosm Publishing specializes in work designed to make the reader feel good about being alive, take an active role in bettering their life, and impact the world around them. Microcosm has developed a reputation for teaching self-empowerment, showing hidden histories, and fostering creativity through challenging conventional publishing wisdom with books and zines about DIY skills, food, politics, and art. Our books are printed in the USA.
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