What happens when you want to depart an already-established life to begin an entirely new one, leaving behind an enviable job and steady paycheck for the thrilling vagaries of becoming a self-employed writer?

Well, tarot readers consistently pull The Fool card when giving you an oracle reading, for one thing!

But how foolish is it to follow a calling towards the craft and career one feels they were meant for?

Can you write a first book, get it published by mainstream New York presses, and subsequently produce another and another...until all of a sudden you have created a whole series that spans decades? Can you do so even in this day & age when the world of publishing is undergoing such change?

Possibly, if one is guided and tenacious enough, claims the author of the unconventional 'Gathering The Dreamcatchers' companion novels.

This is the story of how the first 'dreamcatcher' came to be...


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This book contains illustrations and is available in color hardcover, paperback, + e-editions as well as black/white trade paperback. This is a color 274-page e-version.

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Brought to you from the author of CREATIVE LIVING: From Starving Artist to Self-Employed Bliss, HOW TO BE FREE (When The World Seems Anything But), EX-FRIENDS & EX-LOVERS BELOVED: Sticking Together Through Thick & Thin -vs- Letting Go, FEEDING FRENZY: Devourers of the Newly Published Spotted -- Writers Beware, 'THE WORLD IS BEAUTIFUL' international, illustrated non-fiction, and the 'GATHERING THE DREAMCATCHERS' companion novels.


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