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if there's one character I'm really happy to have designed is one of the Acroobats, Jeanho.

Dude is all Denim, including the Choker (Joker if you will)

Happy Febrooary!

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Bookmark This: A Good Dollar is Hard to Find 

Many writers are willing to share their thoughts about the craft of writing––the hard work, if they write in a tiny study or with a pencil at sunrise––but very few talk about money. How to make a living, a life, as a writer? What does one have to do to create a room of one’s own? 

This week we wanted to share with you three articles that face the issue of money head on. 

The first is by writer Jean Ho, The Financial Lives Of Debut Novelists.  

Jean Ho spoke with two novelists “who had their literary debuts in 2015, Angela Flournoy, author of The Turner House (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), and Tanwi Nandini Islam.” Both writers give great insight on the realities of making a living wage while trying to live the dream of that first book. 

“The way adjuncting works at most universities is so exploitative...because ostensibly you only come in two days a week, but all of the hours of grading, preparing for class, it doesn’t add up.” - Angela Flournoy 

The second is a report generated by the Writer’s Guild . Because the graphs and pictures really say it all, here are a few of their survey findings. 

And the third, to make sure not leave you too depressed, is this beautiful essay by Alexander Chee, Imposter

“I knew I was not rich in a way that anyone else in the building would recognize, but I was writer rich. I had money earned from writing that I would spend on more time to write, and the cheap deal on the beautiful apartment meant the money would last even longer—it even felt like the beginning of more of that money and more of that success.”

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Another photo shoot with my good friend Jean Ho. I’ve seen her passion blossom into amazing work. Check her out at  jho-photo.com