What I Wish I’d Known…

I was a Debut author last year and I’ve had a long road of publishing already. I am not an overnight star. But I’ve worked in the music and fine art industries long enough to know that the overnight successes are not often the ones who make it past one-hit-wonders. I dig that. We are all building MUSCLE as we climb this publishing mountain and I am so fine with hard work. I love to learn and I’ve started my own list of things I’ve learned and things I wish I’d known earlier. So I posed this little question to my MissDemeanors so we could all glean some intriguing tidbits of wisdom as we are writing, as we are slugging it out, as we are conquering our own self-doubt and mountains that mark our own personal success. Here you go.

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Art Overcoming Divides

One of the most moving things I learned about the 1930s, was the way art was able to overcome divides of all kinds. Just like today. Just like always. But the 1930s was absolutely incendiary with civil rights brewing, the Depression, Prohibition, the strange in-between times between the two world wars, just a scant twenty years.

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