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Monthly Archives: February 2019

An interesting collaboration… with myself

02 Saturday Feb 2019

Posted by kathysharp2013 in illustration, Uncategorized, writing

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Happiness, illustration, writing

There are times when you realise that something you perceived as a failure turned out to be a good thing. I failed, abjectly, to promote and sell my e-books, to my shame and to the frustration of my publisher. So I gave up on it. A year later, I see that this sad failure was one of the best things that could have happened to me.

Were I still fighting that losing battle to sell books – setting aside the general grief that would be causing – I would never have taken up art again. The sheer joy that illustrating my own writing has brought me is hard to express. It’s a visceral sense of homecoming and of being true to myself. From now on, I am writer-and-illustrator, as I probably always should have been. I can only hope, dear reader, that you find yourself as happy in your own skin as I am now. It really is never too late to find something you love doing and go for it.

First fruit of this interesting collaboration with myself is the magical tale The Herbarium. You can see the first part on the previous post on this blog, dated 31 January.

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