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Different types of writing require different types of service. For example, If you are writing a novel independently and not with a major publication house, you may want to hire a freelance proofreader or editor or if you are doing any academic research then you may need someone to cross-check the written material, etc Nowadays, you can find almost anyone for a role or service you want a particular service for. Definitely, an advantage but can get extremely overwhelming as well. That is why it would be better to take a look at the list of the following writing services for artists before going full-in! There are both free and premium services that not only new but even already established artists go by and use in their publication of the work. Here are some names for both categories: The best writing services for artists (Free): Grammarly: One of the most commonly used apps for correcting the grammar of any article/ writing piece by people. This service is not only used by writing professionals but even by students nowadays as it is the top grammar correction right now. It's available in both free and paid versions. Bibisco: This software for Windows, Mac, and Linux is free and a popular choice for writing and organizing your novel ideas. The person can drag and drop their segments or notes in between the written format as their wish and save them in their ideal format. Hemingway App: This online software is considered to be the best free alternative to Grammarly and can be used by not only authors but other people like students, academics, article writers, etc. as well. It will outline the errors in your documents but instead of the suggestions being straight, they would be quite general. The best writing services for artists (Paid): Scrivener: This top writing software is considered one of the best in the market due to its wealth of functions like opening your documents across different devices, the addition of ideas and notes when the inspiration strikes, and more. You can check their payment plan here. Outsourcing from third-party services like Fiverr, etc: Making a profile is very easy and you would be able to find a wide variety of freelancers working in the writing industry whether it be an assistant, ghostwriter, or anyone else. You'll be able to see their work until now and references from people and then only make your decision to hire a particular candidate. ProWritingAid for Proofreading: This is an online Proofreader software that can be used if you don't want to use a human proofreader ( though, I recommend the latter one). This is paid and just like Grammarly, can be used across different devices. Hope you do check out these service platforms on the internet and in the market and find the best one that suits your style and budget. Remember these are only some of the sites, new sites for writing services come into the market at regular intervals and you should try and find the one to focus on the area you need. Though a caution before, do a background check on the service provider for any writing skill you are going for as they should be genuine and safe. Have a wonderful time writing!

As coastal seaport, Vancouver ranks as one of the most livable cities in North American. Its location near the ocean affords locals an amazing scenery that offers many opportunities for outdoor exploration. Beyond the natural beauty, Vancouver also shines brightly when it comes to its artistic community. There are various venues that celebrate artistic expression and promote it for the enjoyment of the public. Whether you’ve moved here recently or you just simply wish to stay updated on the latest developments in the art world, we’ve put together a list of some of the best art galleries and museums in Vancouver in 2022 below: 1. Vancouver Art Gallery As one of the most respected visual art institutions in North America, the Vancouver Art Gallery was founded in 1931. It is a non-profit organization centered on promoting ground-breaking exhibitions. It is also involved in the creation of public programs and supporting scholarship highlighting the historical and current art of British Columbia and international centers – featuring accomplishments of artists from the Asia Pacific region and the First Nation. The Vancouver Art Gallery’s programs help visual culture, architecture and design intersect, with creativity at the centre of an open and engaged world. 2. Centre A Located in the heart of Vancouver’s Chinatown, Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art is a first-rate gallery and a registered charity. It is also the sole art gallery in Canada catering to the contemporary Asian artists since 1999. Their goal is to give various communities an outlet for artistic expression through thought-provoking exhibitions and public programs focusing on ethnic communities in Canada. Besides the exhibition space, the gallery also has a reading room featuring impressive collections of Asian art books, including the Finlayson Collection of Rare Asian Art Books. 3. Museum of Anthropology at UBC Having started as a department within the Faculty of Arts at the University of British Columbia in 1949, the Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at UBC is one of Canada’s largest teaching museums. The institution showcases Indigenous art and helps to promote it in a culturally sensitive way. Close to 50,000 works of art from all over the world have found a home here. The MOA’s exhibitions aim to strengthen the connection between art, society and community within a context that supports the expression of cultural traditions. Overall, MOA hosts about three or four exhibitions yearly, plus other events. The Native Youth Program – the longest-running training program for Indigenous high school students in British Columbia – is held every summer. 4. Douglas Reynolds Gallery The Douglas Reynolds Gallery prides itself in showcasing historic and contemporary Northwest Coast Indigenous art. You can see pieces made of forton, bronze, glass, aluminum and other contemporary materials at the gallery – with masks, totem poles, jewelry and early historic objects among the artworks residing here. Well-known artists such Bill Reid, Jim Hart, Beau Dick, Jay Simeon and many others’ works have been seen at the Douglas Reynolds Gallery. As it happens, pieces signed by some of these artists are now part of private and museum collections throughout the world. You can find the Douglas Reynolds Gallery in Vancouver’s South Granville gallery district. 5. Rennie Museum The Rennie Museum takes its name from Bob Rennie, Vancouver’s famous real estate marketer who is also an avid art collector. As it happens, he boasts one of the largest art collections in the country. The Guggenheim, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian and other famous art institutions around the world have had his collection on loan. You can find the museum in Chinatown, but there are no permanent collections there. Current exhibitions are curated based on theme and many of them tackle stringent issues such as social justice, identity, cultural appropriation and more. Entrance is by booking only, with spots filling up weeks in advance. 6. Museum of Vancouver Canada’s premier civic history museum, the Museum of Vancouver aims to connect the people of Vancouver and to present the city’s heritage to the world. They do this by providing a space where stories, shared experiences and objects reflecting Vancouver’s diverse communities and histories can converge. MOV’s collection includes ethnographic, historical, archaeological, Asian studies and natural history objects. Beginning in 2009, the museum’s focus has been on promoting the city of Vancouver to the world. MOV now offers a digitized version of the collections reflecting the city’s history which can be publicly accessed. 7. Ian Tan Gallery One of North America’s finest art venues, the Ian Tan Gallery has been promoting emerging and established Canadian artists from the west coast. You can find it in the South Granville district of Vancouver, with art mediums featuring oil paintings, drawings, sculptures and glassworks amid the beautiful high ceilings and white walls that help you better focus on the exhibits. As the owner, Ian Tate strives to put together items that light up the room. Therefore, the gallery’s services include helping clients at a holistic level – from appraisal to framing, shipping, installation creation and rentals. Previous monthly exhibitions have featured works by Eri Ishii and William Randall. Every new exhibition opens with free reception open to the public. 8. Seymour Art Gallery Nestled in the heart of Deep Cove, North Vancouver, the Seymour Art Gallery is a non-profit public gallery founded in 1985. The gallery sees more 25,000 visitors cross its threshold, whether it’s for exhibitions or special events. Besides promoting their collections through exhibitions, the Seymour Art Gallery also organizes various artistic events featuring music, art demonstrations, interactive art workshops and child-friendly events. Moreover, the gallery also organizes programs for schools and activities geared at the general public as part of their mission to support the arts. 9. Vancouver Maritime Museum The Vancouver Maritime Museum is a museum dedicated to presenting the maritime history of Vancouver, British Columbia and the Canadian Arctic and is located in Vanier Park, west of False Creek on the Vancouver waterfront. It is a family-friendly institution where you can learn about the sea and the history of various ships. You can enjoy rotating art exhibits that showcase shipwrecks, lighthouses, warships, ship models, the Arctic and more. Moreover, the Underwater World is a perfect place for children to create and play. Which of these museums have you already visited? Let us know in the comments section below.

Merry Christmas. As most of you know, I am not Christian, so it is somewhat difficult to write an appropriate Christmas blog. Yes, I want everyone to have a good holiday, but that’s not enough. ArtsKeeper is international. We want the best no matter your race, religion, color or nationality. We wish for, hope for, pray for success and accomplishment no matter if you are an artist, someone who likes the arts, someone who is a donor or patron of the arts. We look for the universal signs. Both Hannuka and Christmas feature lights, so I look for the meaning of light. There are other holidays or festivals, and often truth is found in darkness. ArtsKeeper looks out for the benefit of the artist who creates art and thus makes life better for us, art that shows us different things, often beauty, often truth, often a new or different way of looking at things, a new way of thinking. Maybe that is the message of the day, not only glorification of what is, but seeing what could be, different things for different people or different cultures, often light (understanding) often hope for what could or should be. So that is my message, we should appreciate art and the artist no matter who he or she is, no matter where she or he lives. This is not tolerating others but making the world a better place. Learn more about ArtsKeeper by visiting ArtsKeeper.org. Ever since “giving Tuesday”, I have been thinking, Donate what you wish to ArtsKeeper by filling out the form at https://www.artskeeper.org/donate to allow ArtsKeeper to grow with its mission, to help the arts flourish and artists thrive.

Thank You, ArtsKeeper community for coming together and expressing your creative spirit through your various gifts. I am inspired with every post I read and every work of art that is shared. I am moved to create and put my spirit down for the ages and what I get back is priceless support and continued momentum to keep making our community more beautiful, kind and mindful. Peace. Below is me rendered in art form using Google Arts & Culture Art Selfie

ArtsKeeper's goal is to help artists build successful arts businesses and that includes people who provide services for artists. The major distinction for Art Services is that arts service providers do not typically produce their own art, but support the production of it by others. The missions of arts service organizations are to bolster creatives in their artistic endeavors as opposed to creating their own. ArtsKeeper has a growing number of arts services providers promoting their services on our site. It is important for our community to support these services providers, just as we do for our artists. After all, we must feed and nourish the entire arts ecosystem. Check out ArtsKeeper's Services for Artists page and puruse the outstanding providers we have listed. If you would like to promote your services, here is a link to the Promote UR Services application form.

There's a movie on Netflix entitled "Barbarian." This story held much promise and the photography is well done. Even the acting is on on par. Is this enough to whet your appetite to see it? Well , if you want to see this movie, stop reading! This story, can't call it a film, never made sense. It's like there are multiple thoughts that stand alone but were smashed into one project. Which is unfortunate because the casting, makeup and lighting worked well. There just was a very weak thread of a plot that frankly didn't warrant funding this production. There are monuments of suspense that work well but go nowhere. And as you probably expect by now, the ending is just an ending. It doesn't bring the story, such as it is, to a satisfying conclusion. Thankfully, it's not too long. When i got to the point of wanting to scream at the screen, it was over. Like a nightmare.

When Daniel stepped into the house his senses were immediately overwhelmed by a sharp metallic scent, he could almost taste it on his tongue. A few feet away, the camera lights shuttered on-and-off as the Medical Examiners busied themselves with immortalizing the contents of the room with their lenses, a feat that wasn't possible years ago. Science truly was life-changing. “What the fuck?” Daniel muttered to himself as his eyes finally settled on the source of the putrid smell. He had training at the academy, he ran a year of patrol and he had seen a few deaths and murders in his time, but nothing could have prepared him for the sight in front of him. The victim’s body was mauled under the strength of a chandelier that previously lighted up the room, dried-up blood colored the silver of the chandelier’s bulb, and the blood pooled around the victim even though the edges had darkened from how long they had been exposed to air. “Well, you don’t see that every day,” Detective Maxwell said from beside him while he dropped his cigarette and killed the stub underneath his feet. He signaled to Christine, a blonde lady that worked with the Medical Examiner's Office. “What do we have?” “The victim's name is Wayne Mullins. A single man in his forties. He runs a small school for black children in the neighborhood. One of his neighbors called in the death when she came in to check on him after she claimed she hadn't seen him the entire day,” Christine said as she approached the detectives. “Cause of death?” Daniel asked. “You do realize that there's a giant chandelier crushing his torso, right?” Detective Maxwell asked with a raised brow. “Well we still haven’t determined if the chandelier killed him, there seems to be a lot of blood, and the chandelier could only have caused a concussion with its weight at most,” Christine said. “So someone killed the victim and dropped the chandelier on him to hide the cause of death?” Daniel asked. “Or maybe it’s just an accident,” Detective Maxwell muttered as he fished out another cigarette from his jacket. “What?” Christine asked, her brows drawn together in confusion. “Yeah, What?” Daniel asked as he turned to face his partner. “Let me speak to you for a minute, Kid,” Detective Maxwell said as he stepped back. “What are you talking about? There's no way that could have been an accident,” Daniel hissed at him. Detective Maxwell took out his lighter and the flame flickered and danced above it before he brought it against the cigarette. He took a long drag, deliberately taking his time to puff out the smoke against Daniel’s strong face. The young detective was what most ladies would consider eye candy. He had piercing brown eyes and a slender nose that sat on a long tanned face. He was often the tallest person in the room and Lester knew he spent more time styling his thick, black hair than any man should. Daniel continued to stare back at him, unamused by the old man’s antics. “What do you see?” Detective Maxwell asked and nodded his head in the direction of the victim's body. “A man that was robbed of his life—” “A black man,” Detective Maxwell cut in. “Really? We're doing that? Really?” Daniel asked and arched an eyebrow. “You know how it is with these black neighborhoods, they are always attacking themselves, robbing themselves. It's the South side after all.” “Don’t you want to bring the killer to justice? That’s what we do—it’s what we're supposed to do.” “Look, Kid. I get it, you're new at this and you’re itching to get some action, but we're not superheroes. I'm having a migraine just thinking about all the paperwork this case is going fill my table with,” Detective Maxwell said, his hands reached for his temple, massaging it as if he was trying to sell the fact that he truly had a migraine. He noticed Daniel’s features were still contorted by a frown and he continued, “It's not that I'm nonchalant, I'm just trying to retire without any work stressing my last month at the precinct. There's no need to blow this thing’s ass wide open.” “I’m not writing off a murder case as an accident for your own comfort, Detective,” Daniel hissed, spitting the last word more as an insult than a title. “Fine. Have at it,” Detective Maxwell shrugged and flicked his half-smoked cigarette against Daniel’s shirt. “You won't find what you're looking for though—that big case that's going to be the talk of Chicago. This, at best, is just a case of a mugging gone wrong,” Detective Maxwell said and gave Daniel a humorless smile as he walked out. (An Excerpt from the Manuscript: Death Of The Jury) Author: Nsikan Hilary Author’s pen name: Sir. J. L. Milford.

With the addition of eBooks and audiobooks, the writing industry is gradually becoming competitive as writers no longer have to go through the brick and mortar publishing houses before they can have their books seen by millions of people. Now that you have taken a big step forward by completing your work of art, it is time to go a bit further by selling your book. There is this sense of pride that comes when you put your book up for sale, and it gets even better when you experience the joy of having your first sale. So, to help you in your goal of becoming the next best seller or just making money from selling books online, we will be breaking down 5 of the best platforms where you can sell your books. 1. Amazon Amazon has to be one of our top picks. It is one of the best places to sell your eBooks and have millions of customers see it because it is such a well-established and popular platform. In fact, some reports say that the eBooks published on Amazon make up 68% of the eBook market. You can make between 35% to 60% on royalties, but before you get into Amazon, you have to decide: If you want to be a professional or individual seller Your Fulfillment method. The first method is the Fulfillment by Merchant method (FBM). Here, you have to pack and ship the book yourself once an order is placed, and you have to store the books yourself. The second method is the Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA), and for this method, Amazon will store and ship the book for you anytime someone makes an order for it. 2. BookDeal Amazon has a lot of choices for you to choose from, which could be a bit frustrating and overwhelming, and if you don't want to go through the stress of deciding what to do, BookDeal is just the platform for you. With this platform, all you have to do is create an account, and depending on the type of book you are selling and its quality, the site will give you different offers. If you are okay with the offer, go ahead to choose a payment method and confirm the deal. You will be paid 5 days after ever the book has been sold. 3. Sellfy Like BookDeal, Sellfy is another website that is easy to use. With the platform, you can sell anything from eBooks, software, courses, and some physical products, which also makes it a great choice for content creators. Sellfy offers about 4 different plans, and each of them has features unique to each plan. For example, you can use the free plan to sell up to 10 products, but you cannot sell any digital downloads. But the Premium plan, which is the highest plan, comes with more features, all for $19 a month. 4. Textbooks.com Textbooks.com is a unique platform that sells used textbooks to college students, and your books don't have to be in perfect condition before you can sell them. But your books will be rejected if they are seriously damaged. But if you want to sell other books, especially paperback books and you can always buy a book from the platform and sell it back to them if you no longer need it. 5. Chegg Chegg is a great place to sell your books, and they give you great offers depending on the type of book you want to sell. With Cheggs, you can ship your books to them for free, and after your book has been received by them, they will pay you for it, but this will typically take between 10-15 days, depending on how long it takes to process and ship your books. Conclusion There are countless sites out there where you can sell books, but not all of them will be willing to accept your work or pay you well for it. The websites mentioned here, along with an up-and-coming platform called Artkeeper store, are great places for authors and creatives to share their work with the world. With these websites, authors are rewarded for their hardwork and make the most of their writing.

Wind River is one of the most soul stirring films I have seen in recent years. An Indian-American girl goes off to spend a night with her Caucasian boyfriend, in his cabin on a Winter rig-camp in the woods. The boy’s friends return from a night out, drunk, and with super-charged libido. They find the boy making out with his girlfriend, and they felt entitled to join, but when the boy resists and tries to protect his girlfriend from the gnashing wolves “friends”, they attack him, knock him out with the butt of a wine bottle and repeatedly rape his girlfriend. The boy regains consciousness and tries to fight back, but he is overpowered, knocked out and killed by his supposed friends and colleagues. His girlfriend uses that chance to escape into the cold and frosty night, without her shoes. After walking miles, treading barefoot on crackling and freezing snowflakes, her lungs succumbs to the cold; collapses, and she dies as a result of prolong exposure to cold and frostbites. Her death is the inciting incident for every other conflicts in the story, and her death is avenged in the end by her uncle; a skilled marksman and a prey-hunter in the woods, even with the presence of a law agent, FBI agent Jane Banner (played by Elizabeth Olsen). In region where an effective judicial system and the law was far from, nothing was more satisfying than watching those bastards hunted down like wild animals in the woods by one of the main protagonists of the story, Cory Lambert (played by Jeremy Renner). Nsikan Hilary.

This is a question that keeps coming up. Pricing artwork is challenging when you're getting started. Even the opinions of the experts on how to price artwork vary. To make it even more complicated, artists sometimes price with their emotions. Some artists overprice their work in order to impress viewers, hoping to make the artwork look more valuable. Sometimes this works, but usually only when the collector is naïve or when the artwork is spectacular and gets the attention of multiple collectors. Price Your Artwork with this Formula Multiply the painting’s width by its length to arrive at the total size, in square inches. Then multiply that number by a set dollar amount that’s appropriate for your reputation. Then calculate your cost of canvas and framing, and then double that number. For example: A 16”-x-20” oil-on-linen landscape painting: 16” x 20” = 320 square inches. Using $6 per square inch, this painting should be priced at 320 x 6 = $1,920.00. Figure out the price of your frame, canvas and other materials. Then double this cost. Otherwise, I’m subsidizing the collector by giving him or her the frame for free. For example, $150 x 2 = $300. 3. Then I put it all together: $1,920 + $300 = $2,220 (the retail price). If you're selling through a gallery, which customarily charge 50% of the selling price, your cut after the commission is paid comes to $1,110 for the painting and $150 for the framing, for a total net of $1,250. It is recommended for much larger pieces to reduce the price per square inch down a notch, a dollar or two lower, so as not to overprice the work for what people will actually pay. Also, check around to see what others are charging for similar works. Alternately, for smaller works, price using the same per square inch as for your regular pieces because these take nearly as much effort as larger works, and you need to be compensated fairly, even when the work is miniature. Generally, when you’re first starting out, it’s a good idea to make your work as affordable as you can while being able to make a small profit. But, don’t charge so little that you don’t break even. If you've got another method and are willing to share, please let us know!

Nowadays there are different sites and apps through which one can sell their books. Ebooks are being used way more than before, the reasons can be many: Environmental issues, Covid, etc. So, It is understood that authors want to sell their books online. There are many places to traditionally sell your book like book shops, events, etc. But Where to sell a book online? To get to know them, go through the following points: Amazon/ KDP This is the top place to sell anything including books online for some years now. It's available in most the countries in the world and setting up an account is quite easier in comparison to other websites and applications. The author of the book can add their novel as a softcopy or an ebook. The writer can set up their account on Amazon-owned-Kindle's Kindle Direct Publishing(KDP), the hub of ebook reading, and start to get an audience! Many self-published authors have found success through this. It is a top e-reader and is beloved in the world of booklovers! The customer service is also top-notch and would be able to help you at any stage of the process if you need so. Through your blog/website: Selling or providing your copy on your own website or blog is the easiest way to sell a book online. Set up your blog if you don't already have any. There are many options to do so, both free and paid. And after reviewing and setting up the site, just add a page for the audience to download your book. This not only answers the question ``Where to sell a book online for free" but can also build you an email listing of people that would get the novel if they sign up on your site! You can use these email signups to reach your email inbox with your other blog/website announcements! Thus, it's like hitting two birds with one stone! Try your location-based sites according to your place: They differ from place to place and country and you would need to research Where to sell a book online for free? on a search engine to get the results and see the third-party websites and places to list your book(s) there. Try other e-commerce platforms and websites: Again, you have to research the platforms that do global publishing and PR like eBay, Payhip, Overdrive, and more. The rules and regulations of these do get regulated over time, so proper exploration is required by the researcher. You can also add your book on the ArtsKeeper website as well for the artist's exposure and awareness with the audience of readers! Through interactive reading sites: There are quite a few sites and apps like Wattpad now where the writer can publish their book on these online reading interactive sites as online stories. The author can save their stories in chapters or sections or just publish the whole novel, according to their time and reader's reaction to the book. There are some options that make these sites different from other publishing processes and they are written as follows: On the sites, the audience can read and comment on your writing in real-time. The author can edit and make changes in their story as they please which is not something that normal publishing allows to do. You also get the choice to choose either to charge for your book or its chapter if you see and think you've built enough audience. Now that you have gone through these sites, you can check out the ways that align with your situation the best and go with them! You can also add your book on the ArtsKeeper site to get exposure and sell through the website!

Once upon a time, a man walking forlornly down a beach stumbled across an ancient lamp. His foot accidentally kicked the lamp, and out sprung a mighty genie! "You have freed me!" the genie bellowed. "For that, I shall grant you one wish." The man gazed wistfully out at the sea for a moment, and then said, "I wish for my life to be special, important, and meaningful." The genie gave the man an inscrutable look, folded his arms, and blinked. There was a sudden bang and a puff of smoke. "Your wish is granted!" the genie declared. After a moment, the man felt his body, shook his head, and looked at the genie in confusion. "I don't feel any different!" he protested. The genie then gave the man a sad smile. "Of course not," he whispered. And then he disappeared. I saw this story as a comic recently. I wish I could take credit for it's brilliant simplicity. Thanks to whoever it was that created it - wish I had noted the name. We often feel we're accomplishing nothing. Don't believe it! I just received a DM from a fellow LinkedInnie (is that a good term?) that included the following quote (truncated for brevity and anonymity): "You should receive an email with a link to a kindle copy of my first novel... I've followed you for a while on LinkedIn... You were one of the examples which encouraged me to start submitting to publishers." This writer had done short stories for a while, but only as a hobby. He began submitting full books only a few years ago - and now has signed his third book deal - and he's attributing part of his motivation to my example! I don't know what I've done that he found so encouraging. I'm certainly not one of those "you can do it!" cheerleader folks. If anything, I tend to to note, and ponder, the difficulties we writers stru ggle with, and I rarely have a simple solution to offer. Hardly the world's greatest motivator, I know. But a person I know only slightly saw something I did, took heart from it, and make a huge step forward in his personal and professional life. (AND he sent me just the loveliest message to tell me, too!) You may think it'll sink without a ripple, but don't kid yourself. You never know how your stone will skip across the sea. _____________ Yonah Klein is the author of numerous published comics, children's books, short stories, audio productions, and the novel Power Plays. His second novel, based on the wildly successful serial Face2Face, is due out shortly.