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Open now for your FREE Sale Guide, including fab worksheets from art agent Lilla

Our Giant Cyber Sale kicks off NEXT TUESDAY, November 22nd, with savings across every single one of our career-changing courses, and up to 50% off our fabulous bundles! Get your free copy of our gorgeous Sale Guide, full of quizzes and worksheets and a creative career planner, and start planning your amazing creative career. Where will the next 12 months take you? This is our biggest sale of the year, with 30% off every single one of our career-changing courses and even bigger savings on our incredible bundles! Don’t miss out! Click here to download your FREE Sale Guide, then grab a drink and a pencil and get stuck in. Here’s what you’ll find in your packed Sale Guide: An intriguing quiz that will help you figure out what sort of book is perfect for you An insightful worksheet to help you hone in on your very own unique arty


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FREE video: So, how do you get an arty book deal?! Part 4

How do you get an arty book deal? Today in Part 4 of art agent Lilla Rogers’ FREE video series, she’ll be answering the burning question: How do you get an arty book deal? Want to get a book deal for something you’d love to teach? Let Lilla show you how. Image shows books written and illustrated by Flora Waycott (left) and Zoe Ingram (right), both represented by Lilla. She’ll also talk about what a pitch actually is, and why pitching a non-fiction book may be easier than you think! Plus there’ll be another journaling exercise, so grab a pen and some paper and get stuck in. Click here to watch Part 4: How do you get an arty book deal? Want to sign up for My Art Book Pitch right now and save? Just click here. Lots of love The Make Art That Sells team xxx


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FREE video: Cool ways to design your arty book interior 👀 Part 3

Welcome back to your FREE video series from art agent Lilla, all about how you can build a lucrative and rewarding career writing and illustrating arty books! Today in Part 3: Topics and formats for your arty book. Lilla will be talking you through some cool ways you can structure or format the pages of your arty book. Inside some of Katie Daisy’s beautiful books. Notice how there is very little text – perfect for people who like to make art. See more in today’s video. As ever, it’s packed with some fabulous visuals to enjoy, and she’ll finish up with an inspiring journaling exercise, so be sure to have a journal or sketchbook handy. Inside some interactive journals. These are typically image-heavy with lots of art and prompts and quotes and maybe a few personal anecdotes. Clockwise from top left: Growth by Susie Ghahremani, Start Where You Are by


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FREE video: How to have an amazing book career (even if you’re not a writer) 📚 Part 2

Get Part 2 of your FREE video series on writing and illustrating non-fiction books from art agent Lilla: How to have an amazing book career! Did you know that globally there were 1.5 million new non-fiction titles in 2020 alone? That means 1.5 million book deals – and yes, it’s hugely competitive, but there’s also tons of opportunity out there for creative people like you with your cool, creative minds, especially if you can create a really kickass pitch. Plus the good news is that after you’ve got one book deal under your belt, each one becomes easier than the last! Imagine building a career on writing gorgeous illustrated books – a whole shelf full. Imagine getting paid to research and draw something you really love, or to teach. Imagine getting to share your passion – whether it’s for your collection of seashells and where you found them, tea leaf


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FREE video series and announcing Lilla’s NEW course 👀

Giant announcement! Brand NEW course for 2023! My Arty Book Pitch is the creative person’s guide to making a gorgeous image-driven book proposal, by top art agent and author, Lilla Rogers. Some of the gorgeous illustrated non-fiction books that Lilla shares in the video below. What is an arty book? It’s anything that’s art-driven (whether illustrations, photographs or anything else) and stunning to look at: it may be practical too, but you would also find yourself picking it up and flicking through the pages just because it’s so damn pretty. It doesn’t have to contain many words at all – perhaps it’s a collection of illustrated quotations, or sketches of flowers and their medicinal uses, or a journal with prompts, or some pages from your sketchbook from your year living out of a campervan – art agent Lilla will give you tons more ideas, suggestions and inspiration in class. Arty


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Get represented by Lilla Rogers and get art gigs like these

How can you land representation with top art agency Lilla Rogers Studio? It’s something that we get asked a lot. And the short and easy answer is that every live Make Art That Sells course is an incredible opportunity to get your art directly in front of art agent Lilla Rogers: she’s always on the lookout for new talent! Lilla looks at every single piece of art submitted to the class galleries when she’s preparing for the live class reviews, and she also loves to keep an eye on the private class Facebook groups and see all your beautiful work in progress. So if you take her classes, then she’s going to see your art. Why does she love scooping up students from Make Art That Sells courses? Because she knows they’ll have really strong portfolios to get work for top markets. In fact, since Make Art That Sells was


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REVEALED: The winner of our huge video testimonial competition!

Discover what our students love about Make Art That Sells! Last month, we launched our massive video testimonial competition. We wanted to know what you loved about Make Art That Sells, the great work you’ve gotten, the friends you’ve met, and the courses that have blown your mind, and you did NOT disappoint! We were amazed by the standard of the entries that we received, and it was very hard to pick a winner, but a winner we must have, so we are delighted to announce that the winner is … RAINBOW WANG! Watch her video below. Art agent Lilla said: “I loved each and every video, but I was particularly moved the film by Rainbow Wang. In the beginning, she shares, ‘I had a vision map filled with my dreams. How do I get there? I needed direction.’ Then, from Make Art That Sells, she starts to see her


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HURRY! Last chance to write your very own picture book!

Hurry HURRY – registration for My Kid Book Pitch closes TODAY! This course won’t run again until 2023 – don’t miss out, sign up now! Every year, art agent Lilla hosts a residency for the artists she represents, either in person or (thanks Covid!) virtually. For the past few years, the focus has been on writing picture books, based on Lilla’s My Kid Book Pitch course, and today we’re thrilled to share not one but TWO gorgeous books written and illustrated by artists that Lilla represents. Lilla says: “One of my most favorite things in the world is to help artists make even more brilliant work, develop their unique gifts, and broaden their career opportunities. It’s why I wrote My Kid Book Pitch. So with that in mind, we were incredibly excited to offer our Picture Book Writing Residency to our artists, focusing on writing children’s picture books.” Want to


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Don’t miss out: Lilla’s picture book writing class starts TODAY!

Woo hoo! Our brilliant picture book writing course, My Kid Book Pitch, starts TODAY! If you’ve ever wanted to write your very own picture book, even if you don’t think of yourself as a writer, then you won’t want to miss this. Woo hoo! Our brilliant picture book writing course, My Kid Book Pitch, starts TODAY! If you’ve ever wanted to write your very own picture book, even if you don’t think of yourself as a writer, then you won’t want to miss this. Student success: Friederike Dammermann Make Art That Sells student Friederike got in touch to let us know that her children’s book story pitch was picked up by a publisher within a week of submitting her pitch! Art created by Friederike for My Kid Book Pitch that got her a book deal. What will your picture book story look like? Get ready to find out – sign


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Replay of Live with Lilla: Friday, October 21! My Kid Book Pitch Begins on Monday!

If you missed the Live with Lilla on Friday, below is the replay! Woo hoo! Our brilliant picture book writing course, My Kid Book Pitch, starts on MONDAY! If you’ve ever wanted to write your very own picture book, even if you don’t think of yourself as a writer, then you won’t want to miss this.   Want to save 25% on My Kid Book Pitch? Save big with The Children’s Book Bundle 2022! You’ll get My Kid Book Pitch along with Illustrating Children’s Books PLUS and Lilla’s Art Recipes: Drawing Faces for just £395/approx. $436 (down from £527/approx. $582)! Find out more and sign up here.