Tag: career

  • What’s the best advice for a teenage artist?

    What’s the best advice for a teenage artist?

    Every year I go to Monmouth Comprehensive School to try and give some advice to students about writing and illustrating as a possible career. There used to be a sort of career path I could suggest but, thanks to the Internet,  so much has changed in the last four or five years, I went last…

  • So you want to be an author?

    Tonight I’m attending the Monmouth Comprehensive School Careers and Higher Education Fair and I’m thinking what to say to the students that ask me for advice about becoming an author. It’s actually quite hard to give advice, as there is no career structure for authors and the internet is changing all our futures rapidly. Being…

  • Exile From Easy Street

    The creative world is changing rapidly. I heard Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones being interviewed the other day, about their new documentary that is going to be shown at Cannes Film Festival. It’s about the time they made the album, Exile On Main Street At the end of the interview, I think it was…