Just a brief update this time around as everything has sort of piled on in the last while. And don’t even get me started on tax time. Trying to keep all your income and expenses straight is not something they teach you in art school which is a shame as many artists are entrepreneurs to one degree or another. Biggest piece of advice: Keep receipts for everything! If you can learn to set up a spreadsheet even better. Financial advice, geared specifically for artist/writers or other creatives is not easy to find. For small businesses, the advice is overwhelmingly slanted towards people selling something from a somewhere – like a brick and mortar store. That’s dramatically changing at the current time but many solitary artists still struggle with what they can claim or even just how to track things. These are skills that I am finally attempting to get a firm grip on. Oddly, thanks to the pandemic, I found myself with the time to focus more on that area. That is between writing five novels and creating more designs for our Redbubble store and working at my day job. If anyone is interested in how I’ve set up records to keep track of things, let me know and I’ll share it in another blog. I will admit that I go to an accountant for my taxes rather than doing them myself. This is mainly because I can never be certain as to what I can or cannot claim and how much. If that’s not an issue for you, you can save some nice cash by doing things yourself. And I’m definitely in support of that, especially as I’ll be launching my first novel later this year. More on that at another time. Until then, check out our latest design for our store. The Year of Dragons continues with a design celebrating Mothers’ Day.