http://createworklive.com/2008/08/30/lessons-from-my-neighbor-an-evening-with-karen-allen/ A Blog About Surviving and Thriving in the Creative Economy Sun, 23 Oct 2011 08:56:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://createworklive.com/2008/08/30/lessons-from-my-neighbor-an-evening-with-karen-allen/#comment-677 Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:17:40 +0000 http://kberger466.wordpress.com/?p=213#comment-677 Amen to your comment about success. It’s not only people outside the field who equate success with money. The publishing industry does too. I had a contract from a big publisher with a big advance for my book “Slaying the Mermaid,” but it wasn’t the huge bestseller the publisher hoped for, so it wasn’t a “success.” And I felt unsuccessful. But over time quite a few people told me how much they liked it, that it had helped them. One person actually said it changed her life. So I had to revise my notion of success. It’s also having an impact on people. What could be a better result of writing a book?

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