Book Update (9 May 2022)

I’m Now Working with a Publisher on an Actual Book

After almost one and a half years after setting out to write a book, and about 1 year since setting it aside, I’m seeing some fruit. The book I thought I was going to write ended up becoming a class, and in the meantime, I had some time to think about what else I might want to write about. It is symbolically interesting that within a week or so of launching my class I was invited to pitch a book to a well-known publisher.

It is one year since I landed on what I believed was the first outline for my book, which was supposed to be about process. That “book” ended up becoming the Skillshare class I launched las month, The 6 Stages of Illustration: Leading Clients Through Your Art. I kept getting stuck in the gap between having an idea for a book and having the actual book. Because I know how to create a class, redefining the end-goal for this particular effort helped me just move forward and do something with it.

Around the time of the launch, I received an email from a publisher, who invited me to submit a…