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"A proper Living from Your Art" by Harley and Cally Miller has been written for visual artists and is available free of charge to those with the ambition to become creatively and financially fulfilled. The authors have drawn from their hands-on experience as successful full-time self-employed artists who continue to make a proper living from their art. Harley and Cally encourage all enthusiastic artists to succeed in the most exciting of professions and to encourage the process Harley's free one-to-one vocational counselling service is always available.

The authors challenge much of the advice given to artists by agencies and colleges that self-employment means competition and speculation and living in the hope of being discovered. Instead they believe it's the artist and their unique personality more than their product that can dictate success or failure. This is the starting point and they go on to provide self-assessment exercises to identify these strengths from which the artist can then identify and set their target area and develop a remarkable and sustainable enterprise from their creativity.

"A proper Living from Your Art" shows artists how to identify personal strengths and recognise local opportunities, build confidence, cost work and set fees, design promotional material, promote and market their work, make approaches, form workable agreements, understand and apply copyright and maintain a professional profile.

The book is available free on-line and can be read or downloaded at www.harleymiller.com

"Artists are famously incapable of selling themselves, so several chapters are devoted to self-promotion in all the artistic fields, with sensible advice on how to make an initial approach, including examples of dialogue for the tongue-tied. Templates for basic agreements are clearly set out, not forgetting the essential invoice. No area goes unexplored in this book, except dealing with rejection. The word is clearly not recognised in the Miller vocabulary."
'Artist & Illustrator' magazine books review (November 2004)