Here…meet my pal Colleen Doran, a very talented artist with an uncommon hunk of business acumen. Those two skills do not always go together, which is why you too often hear of creative folks who fear they won't be able to continue writing or drawing once their electricity is turned off. Or some of them do understand the "money stuff" but in any struggle between their creative impulses and common sense of livelihood, the latter loses out. (And what's really sad is when neglect of the contract or deal terms ends up wounding the work. I'm getting tearful calls now from an artist friend who's not only not being paid properly for his work, he's discovering he gave the publisher permission to destroy its integrity in a dozen different ways.)
So here's Colleen, who doesn't make such mistakes…and who is generously outspoken in advising others not to…
