Burning Questions for Marty Crandall of High Desert
It is time to rejoice again, for Marty is about to release a new album, this time with a project called High Desert.
Peri Pakroo
Peri Pakroo is the founder, Publisher and Editor of Pyragraph. Outside her work with Pyragraph, Peri is a business author and coach, specializing in creative and smart strategies for self-employment, small businesses and nonprofits. Her focus is on helping people build structure for their passions to find success on their own terms. Peri is the author of several top-selling Nolo titles on small business and nonprofits including The Small Business Start-Up Kit, The Women’s Small Business Start-Up Kit and Starting & Building a Nonprofit. From 2012 to 2021 she produced and hosted the Self-Employed Happy Hour podcast.
Peri accidentally started her first band The Moist Towelettes at the age of 40 with her husband Turtle O’Toole. Since then she has played in a number of bands including The Directory, Bellemah and her own downer-country project, Peri & the FAQs.
In 2012, Peri saw the need for a resource featuring the voices of a wide range of creative workers and the many different career paths they take. She founded Pyragraph to fill this need. Here’s the Pyragraph start-up story.
Some Love for My Top PyraPosts
Working with awesome contributors like these is why I started Pyragraph in the first place, so revisiting them fills me with love.
Start-Up Interruptus
It did feel kind of insane to continue pushing a start-up forward from a room in a pediatric bone marrow transplant unit.
Merry Inverted Christmas, Everyone
The Tan’s installation, The Manger, provided the perfect backdrop for our family’s holiday portrait, a fitting representation of our upside-down year.
My Hopefully-Not-Boring Wellness Tips
I tend to find articles about diet and exercise incredibly boring, so I thought I’d offer my tips along with some advice I found in Jayne’s Almanac 1937.
Happy Thanksgivukkah from Peri
Here it is, Thanksgiving morning, and in the spirit of The Freelancer’s Thanksgiving Bingo I’m stealing away a little time to do just a smidge of work.
Protected: Pyragraph Points of Interest
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
5 Tips for Making a No-Budget Music Video
One of the reasons I was always loathe to storyboard (besides the fact that I can’t draw for shit) was simply that I was overwhelmed by the idea of drawing out all those shots.
Letter from the Editor
It’s high time for a letter from me, Pyragraph’s Publisher and Editor, to tell you what’s going on with our little-but-growing creative career magazine.
My Life Crisis Forced Me to Leave My Band
Balancing music with needing to put my daughter first is tricky. I have to admit, there’s something about playing music that feels self-indulgent.
Peri Will Tell You
David asks: How can I get into selling my artwork as CD covers?
Getting Knocked in the Head
Life has been hitting me on the head a bit harder lately, and I’m figuring out how to deal with it, emotionally, professionally and creatively.
Contracts and Agreements 101
The more that you are actively working in your field — whether that means writing for magazines, playing music at clubs, hosting gallery events or building furniture for a hotel — the more you’ll find yourself needing to execute contracts with other businesses and people.
The Lowdown on Business Legal Structures
When you’re making money — even just scraps — from your creative work not as an employee of some other company, guess what: You’re running a business.