(Updated Edition 2017) 20 Steps to Art Licensing explains how to get your art onto greeting cards and gifts items, and collect royalties. Learn how to prepare your art, create a collection, adapt a design for a greeting card, manage digital submissions, find an agents and submit them to a publisher. Includes a list of over 100 card and gift companies to contact, online licensing community groups, and licensing teachers who evaluate designs to make them market-ready.
Kate Harper has worked in the gift and greeting card industry for twenty years and has designed hundreds of cards and gifts for the marketplace. She started by creating handmade greeting cards which sold nationwide to over 2,000 accounts. She then transitioned into designing products for other companies and her cards are currently sold throughout the United States and Canada. She also writes a blog blog called Greeting Card Designer.
