«The biggest mistake I see these days is thinking that a business idea will automatically turn into a viable business model,» says Terri Lonier, president and founder of Working Solo, a New Paltz, New York - based business strategy consultancy, and
author of Working Solo: The Real Guide to Freedom and Financial Success with Your Own Business.
Not exact matches
With Part One and Part Two
of this series, we covered your foundation: understanding web terminology,
working with web professionals (or going
solo), and the must - haves for your
author website.
But for
authors who are
working solo to get their names out there and get their books in front
of broader audiences, free might be ideal, at least for a little while.
Most
of the major ebook retail platforms direct small publishers to use their self - serve platforms not everybody who uses them is a
solo author publishing his own
work.
Boasting 18 different rooms that span 3,000 square feet (one piece features 6,000 wooden stools that date back to the Ming Dynasty), the show is the artist's largest
solo exhibition yet, and it features a number
of exclusively -
authored and never - before - seen
works from the prolific global pioneer.
Smith is the
author of a number
of books including Nine Lives; The Birth
of Avant Garde Art in New China (Timezone 8, 2006), and Ai Weiwei (Phaidon, 2009), and is currently
working on a new book about Chinese art during the 1990s; among the many exhibitions she has curated are «Revolutionary Capitals» (ICA, London, 1999), «The Real Thing» (Tate Liverpool, UK, 2007) and, most recently, «Life Most Intense» (Ma Ke
solo exhibition, Platform China, 2012).
His
work is currently being exhibited in London's prestigious Victoria and Albert Museum as part
of the science fiction - themed exhibition Memory Palace based upon
author Hari Kunzru's futuristic vision
of a dystopian London, and next on his agenda is a
solo exhibition entitled Controlled Spaces in Portland's Breeze Block Gallery in their main space, alongside UK - based Carl Cashman in Gallery 2.
Author of one
of the most commented
works in the Venice Biennale last year — «Hunting Ground» occupied the entire Brazilian pavillion in the 57th edition
of the event and won a Special Mention from the International Jury — Cinthia Marcelle opens her first major
solo exhibition in the UK this Saturday, March 10th.
Dash Shaw (BFA 2005 Illustration)
Author, animator and cartoonist; published
works include Cosplayers 1 & 2, Doctors, New School, 3 New Stories, The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century A.D., Bottomless Belly Button all published by Fantagraphics; New Jobs published by Uncivilized Books; BodyWorld published by Pantheon; Bottomless Belly Button was named Publishers Weekly's best graphic novel and one
of Entertainment Weekly's top 10 books; New School was voted One the Best Books
of 2013 by National Public Radio; animated short Seraph selected for 2013 Sundance Film Festival; animated series The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century A.D. aired on IFC.com (2009);
solo exhibition
of original writings and storyboards at Duke University's John Hope Franklin Center (2008);
solo exhibition at the Museum
of Comic and Cartoon Art (2010); Harvey Award nominee: Best Graphic Album for Bottomless Belly Button (2009); Ignatz Award nomination in the category
of Outstanding Story for Galactic Funnels (2008); drawings featured in the film Rabbit Hole (2010); Sundance Writing and Directing Labs Fellow (2010); Cullman Center Fellow (2014).