“Maisel has made a career out of helping artists and writers cope with the traumas and troubles that are the price of admission to a creative life.”
— Intuition Magazine

Eric Maisel, America’s foremost creativity coach, has worked with thousands of creative people over the years, including writers, musicians, artists, dancers, and actors. He knows first-hand the struggles they go through, whether they’re amateur or professional, and through his many books and professional practice he’s helped them find balance in their lives while pursuing their artistic endeavors.

The enclosed advance reading copy of Creativity for Life (New World Library, April 2007) explores the multitude of challenges that come with living an artistic life. Because as Maisel writes, “When you decide to devote yourself to creativity in a specific area, you raise the stakes tremendously, you organize your life around that dream, and you find that your emotions rise and fall with your successes and failures.”

Creativity for Life speaks to working artists in the real world, as well as would-be and free-time artists. The potential challenges Maisel explores include: deciding if you have talent — or if that’s even important; determining your level of commitment; pursuing stardom — or not; honing your craft; overcoming blocks; taking care of the business of your artistic life; finding your place in culture; coming out as an artist; finding love and friendship inside and out of your artistic community; and using your art to explore your inner life.

A comprehensive approach to this much-misunderstood life, this book, firmly grounded in psychology, contains nuts and bolts ideas as well as exercises and inspiration to nurture growth as an artist and a person. And, perhaps most importantly, it celebrates the artist’s heroism because as Eric says, “As society’s visionaries and rebels, artists often remain unthanked and unheard. I hope as they read this book, they will feel recognized and, in some small measure, rewarded for committing to the artist’s life.”

About the Author
Eric Maisel, PhD, is America’s foremost creativity coach and is widely known as the creativity expert. He is a columnist for Art Calendar Magazine, the number one business on-line and print magazine for visual artists, coaches individuals and trains creativity coaches, and offers workshops and keynotes nationally and internationally. He is the author of A Writer’s San Francisco, Coaching the Artist Within, Fearless Creating, The Van Gogh Blues, Ten Zen Seconds and thirty other books. He lives in San Francisco with his family. Visit his website at: www.ericmaisel.com.

Creativity for Life Eric Maisel, PhD
April 2007 • Self-Help/Personal Growth
Trade Paperback • Price: $17.95
368 pages • 6" x 9"
ISBN-10: 1-57731-558-8 • ISBN-13: 978-1-57731-558-2

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