Unlocking the Publishing Jobs You Love!

Finding the intersection of what publishers want and what you love creating

Creative Breakthrough is a 5-Day Sprint.

Each month I’ll guide you through some of the biggest challenges we face as creatives. You’ll get a series of emails and worksheets that give you practical steps to follow, as well as a kick off video to help you get started. This month’s topic: Unlocking Publishing Jobs You Want, focuses on discovering the intersection of what publishers want and what you love doing.

I believe deciding who the customer is and what you offer them is a decision that, supercharges your ability to get consistent work.

Last Month’s Creative Breakthrough was very well received, and I got many messages of thanks and I’ve seen illustrators, including a New York Times Bestselling illustrator implementing the ideas I shared.

(If you’re a paid subscriber you’ll get access to last months session too )

Here’s what we’ll cover in Unlocking Publishing Jobs you want.

• How to understand the state of publishing.

• Identifying and claiming a position in the market.

• Discover how to create hard working portfolio pieces, that increase the surface area of your luck.

This is for you if you are doing any of the following mistakes

• Trying to figure out what publishers want from you, instead of deciding what you are offering publishers.

• Only checking all the best practice boxes, instead of bringing your uniqueness to the table.

• Wasting time creating and sharing lazy pieces, instead of creating hardworking pieces that bring you jobs over and over again

(I’ll show you how to fix those mistakes)

If you’re new here, I’m Adam Ming, and I’ve been illustrating books I love since 2021, apart from the books pictured above I have another 3 books coming out this year, and I’m working on another dream book with another 3 books scheduled after that. I broke into publishing quickly and have been fully booked from the beginning and I want to share my own breakthrough.

I’ve wanted to be an illustrator since I was 11 years old, so I have 30 years of experience in doing the wrong things too! (I want to help you avoid that)

To be super clear, I will show you how to find the intersection between what you have to offer and what publishers want. And if you are offering publishers what they want what do you think are your chances of getting hired?

If you want clear steps to figuring out what publishers want and what you uniquely have to offer, Subscribe.

And if you want to subscribe, let me tell you that a subscription is $20 a month if you pay monthly, but only $8.33 a month if you pay annually, and you’ll unlock my breakthrough diary, which is my most helpful writing all in one place.

Creative Breakthrough: Unlocking Publishing Jobs You Love.

1. Making What people want as an illustrator. ( with video and worksheets)

2. Find Your Advantage, Your Competition and The Customer

3. Same but different, what makes you unique.

4. Remix using the best ingredients.

5. Prove your hypothesis