Your Creative Career

YOUR CREATIVE CAREER YOUR CREATIVE CAREER Turn Your Passion into a Fulfilling and Financially Rewarding Lifestyle ANNA SABINO This edition first published in 2017 by Career Press, an imprint of Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC With offices at: 65 Parker Street, Suite 7 Newburyport, MA 01950 www.redwheelweiser.com www.careerpress.com Copyright © 2017 by Anna Sabino All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC. Reviewers may quote brief passages. ISBN: 978-1-63265-111-2 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Sabino, Anna, author. Title: Your creative career : turn your passion into a fulfilling and financially rewarding lifestyle / by Anna Sabino. Description: Wayne, NJ : Career Press, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017042531 (print) | LCCN 2017049976 (ebook) | ISBN 9781632658951 (ebook) | ISBN 9781632651112 (pbk.) Subjects: LCSH: Arts—Vocational guidance. | Entrepreneurship. Classification: LCC NX163 (ebook) | LCC NX163 .S23 2018 (print) | DDC 700.23—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017042531 Cover design by Joanna Williams Cover image by Jag_cz/shutterstock Interior by Diana Ghazzawi Typeset in Liberation Sans, Minion Pro Printed in Canada MAR 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For all of you who don’t know it yet…you got this! ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Your Creative Career was inspired by you, my readers and fellow entrepreneurs, who through the years have been asking me questions about building a successful business. Our coaching sessions and idea-exchanging conversations gave me inspiration to write. Thank you. The biggest thank you goes to John Willig, my literary agent, who has been a solid rock in the process. John, thank you for believing in me and introducing me to this complex and fascinating world of publishing. I’m immensely grateful for your support. Thank you to the entire family at Career Press, especially to Michael Pye, Adam Schwarz, and Laurie Kelly-Pye. Your patience and readiness to help are remarkable. Joanna Williams, you designed a stellar book cover which many have called “very Instagrammable” and “Pinterest worthy,” which are timely and coveted compliments. Editor Lauren Manoy and managing editor Diana Ghazzawi, thank you for your invaluable editing suggestions and smooth work flow. Thank you, Chris Guillebeau, for endorsing this book during your own book launch and Side Hustle book tour. Tina Seelig, thank you for your support. You were launching your own work of art—your book Creativity Rules—yet still made the time to endorse my book. Thank you, Chase Jarvis for our inspiring conversations, which supported and guided the development of concepts in this book. You’re an inspiration to us creatives. Writing this book wouldn’t have been possible without the support of my partner, Gregory Martin. Greg, you’ve added input to this book, and you’ve been adding fun to my life. Thank you for being by my side for long hours at Powell’s bookstore, putting finishing touches on the manuscript. Thank you for being my first reader. Thank you to my parents, Regina and Marek, who have been married for more than 40 years and who have shown me a great example of commitment, which is crucial to succeeding in the writing process. Big thanks to my brother, Michael, and his wife, Magdalena. Our conversations have sparked a lot of ideas included in this book. Thank you, Christine Moore, for brainstorming with me about publishing steps. Thank you, Karen Otter, for sharing your creative talent with me. I’m grateful for being a part of communities—thank you, Shaunta Grimes and Louise M Foerster from Ninja Writers, Jeff Goins and Tribe