hugh’s books

IGNORE EVERYBODY [Port­fo­lio, June, 2009]

You don’t know if your idea is any good the moment it’s crea­ted. Neither does anyone else. The most you can hope for is a strong gut fee­ling that it is. And trus­ting your fee­lings is not as easy as the opti­mists say it is. There’s a rea­son why fee­lings scare us.

EVIL PLANS [Port­fo­lio, February, 2011]

“Every­body needs an EVIL PLAN. Every­body needs that crazy, out-there idea that allows them to ACTUALLY start doing something they love, doing something that mat­ters. Every­body needs an EVIL PLAN that gets them the hell out of the Rat Race, away from lousy bos­ses, away from boring, dead-end jobs that they hate. Life is short.”

FREEDOM IS BLOGGING IN YOUR UNDERWEAR [Port­fo­lio, April, 2012]

I wrote the book as a love let­ter to the blog­ging, as it were. Blogging mat­ters. Sure, the apps are good things. Sha­ring pho­tos and fin­ding out new res­tau­rants is a defi­nite positive. But as an artist, I come from a back­ground where get­ting your work seen and heard was REALLY HARD. Gate­kee­pers galore. Had blogs exis­ted back when I was a kid, a lot of my crea­tive peers wouldn’t have given up their dreams in order to go do some bill-paying govern­ment job.And what’s true for artists is also true for ANYONE who gives a damn about their work. Too many voi­ces, lost unnecessarily.

[UPDATE: You can get sig­ned copies of all three books from the Lin­coln Road/Miami Beach branch of Books & Books. I’ll even do spe­cial insc­rip­tions for you, if you ask nicely Just phone them up, tell ‘em you know me and they’ll sort you out etc. USA ship­ping only, Sorry.]

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