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What is it you really want to do? - Children's Picture Book Author and Illustrator Maddie Frost

Burnt out from teaching, Maddie took her love of illustration and stories and forged a new career for herself as a picture book author and illustrator. It began with one simple question from her husband: “What is it you really want to do?”

“I was always meant to be on this path,” Maddie says, “I just had to make the choice.”

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Take each day as it comes - Illustrator Stanley Chow

From being spotted when he was doodling on a bit of scrap paper in the chip shop he worked in, to illustrating for clients like The White Stripes and The New Yorker, Stanley’s learned that you can never be sure what’ll happen next when you’re freelance.

“If you’ve got the confidence in yourself, take the plunge,” says Stanley.

Otherwise you’ll never really know, will you?

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