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BeYourArt.com has gone live with a podcast entitled Artcast. It is a video and audio podcast, which merge business and art for every kind of artist, so they may live their art without compromise.

We divide our podcast into the following categories:

Art Interruptions
- Dialogue on living as an artist, based on listener submitted questions. Send questions to artinterruptions@beyourart.com.

Art Notes
- Discussions about articles published on BeYourArt.com and elsewhere, dealing with the business aspects of living as an artist. Send your suggestions to artnotes@beyourart.com. Read more…

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Co-Published: BeYourArt.com and The North Shoreian Magazine, The Altruism Issue, Volume 1, Issue 11, Practicalities of the Surviving Artists, November 2008. Written by Pamela Reese.

Photo By Nino Andonis

The faltering economy has impacted most segments of business and industry, and those involved in the arts have not been exempt. Nevertheless, fiction publishers have taken action to provide new options to aspiring writers. Publishing has begun to affect a myriad of changes in an attempt to remain relevant and competitive in an increasingly tight struggle for entertainment dollars.

Given the current volatility in the book business, smaller profit margins and the need to entice a new generation as the avid readers of the baby boom are aging; publishing is at last seeking solutions to longstanding difficulties.

The publishing industry, deeply entrenched in long traditions and reluctant to initiate sweeping changes in a tight economy, is experimenting with ways to eliminate some of their most vexing issues. Those solutions may have a very direct impact on writers and their art. Read more…