Category Archives: business for illustrators

Transitions…..

Posted on July 15, 2019 by catugeau

by Priscilla Burris…. jumping in to the future with both feet! SUMMER is fully and firmly in the NE finally, and as my husband and i prepare to leave for island adventures, I’ve been thinking again of transitions.   LIFE … Continue reading →

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Licensing Market… some answers

Posted on November 26, 2018 by catugeau

On this ‘cyber’ Monday, I felt it appropriate for some reason to repost this article I wrote recently for Kathy Temean’s ‘ASK CAT’ blog contribution.  Both she and I feel this might be very helpful for many, so here it … Continue reading →

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BOOK CLASS FOR ILLUSTRATORS….

Posted on August 13, 2018 by catugeau

I am most pleased to spread the word about what promises to be a wonderful semester class called CREATING THE PICTURE BOOK!  Author/illustrator Steve Henry and long time editor Barbara Lalicki have developed a course for Pratt that will help … Continue reading →

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BIG START TO A NEW YEAR!….

Posted on January 4, 2018 by catugeau

HAPPY 2018 everyone!  I’m writing this while being snow bound in CT by a whipping Nor’Easter blizzard today that has hit most of the East Coast! …it does have a way of stopping us in our tracks!  But it’s a … Continue reading →

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take care of your ‘tools’

Posted on May 12, 2017 by catugeau

This happy photo of my youngest grandkids (and our agency ‘research assistants!’) reading together, yet totally engrossed in their ‘literary worlds,’ just pleases me SO much!  Isn’t that why we all of the children’s market do what we do? I … Continue reading →

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Portfolio Prep for Conferences…Finding YOU!

Posted on February 3, 2017 by catugeau

It is that time of year again!  After you review your year, (see last Post) you want to strut a new, confident foot out there into the industry! And just in time, there is the SCBWI NYC Mid Winter Conference…just waiting … Continue reading →

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Your Year in Review

Posted on January 29, 2017 by catugeau

Well we’re near the end of Jan 2017 already!  There is one very important activity that you  should have experienced  by now … you should have given yourself a YEAR IN REVIEW self analysis! You are a business.  Artist or … Continue reading →

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POST CARDS WORK!

Posted on May 25, 2016 by catugeau

We were thrilled and delighted to see that we were tagged in this Tweet from Giuseppe  Castellano Senior AD at Penguin Random House, featuring many of the postcards that we just sent out for our Spring Mailing!! I think it’s important for … Continue reading →

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CAT NIP: transitions…

Posted on April 11, 2016 by catugeau

I wrote that I’d spoken to two groups of college students recently (Ringling College of Art and Design and William & Mary here in Wmsbrg).  It’s gotten me thinking of TRANSITIONS in life…so many of them! almost constant in fact.  … Continue reading →

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William & Mary Art Class talk…..

Posted on April 8, 2016 by catugeau

Lizzi, me, and Kirsten from Wm & Mary art I had the great pleasure of speaking to the Senior Class of Art students at William & Mary here in Williamsburg last evening.  Most were fine arts majors (these two had interest … Continue reading →

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