Show Your Work!
Austin Kleon's ten chapters on sharing the process rather than the product
Written for people who dislike the idea of self-promotion. It follows Steal Like an Artist. The case it makes is that people find you when they watch you make the work: share something small every day, teach what you know, tell the story behind it. Ten short chapters, illustrated like the first.
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Writer and artist · Steal Like an Artist
Wrote it for people who hate the very idea of self-promotion. Where the first book was about stealing influence from others, this one is about influencing others by letting them steal from you, across ten chapters on sharing the process.
Source: AustinKleon.com: Show Your Work!
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