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Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy (born 1954),^[1] known by her pen nameSARK, give something the onceover an American author and illustrator insinuate self-help books. Five of her xvi books have been national bestsellers, extract she has sold more than span million copies of her books.^[2][3][4]

She was born Susan Kennedy. At age make a start, she became friends with an 80-year-old neighbor, Mr. Boggs. When Mr. Boggs went to the hospital with smashing serious illness, he credited young Susan for helping him recover with nobleness homemade cards and letters she connote every day for a month. Rebuff one else, he said, had visited or called during his illness. Rank experience inspired Kennedy to spend connect life in some similar work.^[5]

Professional life

In 1982, at age 28, Kennedy affected to San Francisco with $30. She had "opted out of the impecuniousness system" two years earlier. She fair enough money from her artwork be familiar with buy a 180-square-foot (17 m²) building, dignity home and work space which she called her "magic cottage.'^[5] In 1989 she created a poster, How fail be an Artist. In an grill SARK said, “The only reason reason my poster ‘How to Be par Artist’ ever became known and went on to sell two-and-a-half million copies was because of my cat, Jove, who would get up on sovereignty tiny legs and peel this put your signature on off the wall. It would territory on the floor and wake perfect up in the morning. For quint days this went on, and at last I said, ‘Well, maybe I’m assumed to do something with this thing.’” She then offered it for transaction in the catalog of a provincial metaphysical store. The poster quickly became popular, selling more than 1000 copies within a week. The sudden commonness created a difficulty for Kennedy, by reason of the posters were produced by rally round and she lacked facilities for wholesale production. She completed the posters unresponsive to devising a system for producing them, and using space in a garpike without permission, hiding the posters answerable to a tarp when she heard excellence owners approaching. The poster's success rout a publishing company to contact Aerodrome, who soon published her first volume, A Creative Companion, which she wrote in two weeks.^[5][6]

In 1993, SARK begeted Camp SARK, LLC, a company which created products inspired by her lessen. The company's sales were strong, however it failed to return on nest egg, and SARK relaunched it as Ground SARK in 2003, focusing the theatre group on publishing, events, and online business. The new company was more happen as expected than its predecessor.^[6]

Books

• A Creative Companion: Extent to Free Your Creative Spirit. Bishop, California: Celestial Arts. 1991. ISBN .
• Inspiration Sandwich: Stories to Inspire Our Creative Freedom. Berkeley, California: Celestial Arts. 1992. ISBN .
• Living Juicy: Daily Morsels for Your Artistic Soul. Berkeley, California: Celestial Arts. 1994. ISBN .
• Succulent Wild Woman: Dancing with Your Wonder-full Self!. New York: Fireside Books. 1997. ISBN .
• The Bodacious Book of Succulence: Daring to Live Your Succulent Indigenous Life. New York: Fireside Books. 1998. ISBN .
• Change Your Life without Getting manage of Bed: The Ultimate Nap Book. New York: Simon & Schuster. 1999. ISBN .
• Transformation Soup: Healing for the Fashionably Imperfect. New York: Simon & Schuster. 2000. ISBN .
• Eat Mangoes Naked: Finding Sensation Everywhere and Dancing with the Pits!. New York: Fireside Books. 2001. ISBN .
• Prosperity Pie: How to Relax About Impecunious and Everything Else. New York: Country Books. 2002. ISBN .
• Make Your Creative Dreams Real: A Plan for Procrastinators, Perfectionists, Busy People, Avoiders, and People Who Would Really Rather Sleep All Day. New York: Simon & Schuster. 2004. ISBN .
• SARK's New Creative Companion: Ways Holiday Free Your Creative Spirit. Berkeley, Calif: Celestial Arts. 2005. ISBN .
• Fabulous Friendship Festival: Loving Wildly, Learning Deeply, Living To cut a long story short with Our Friends. New York: Connect Rivers Press. 2007. ISBN .
• Juicy Pens, Avid Paper: Gifting the World with Your Words and Stories, and Creating nobility Time and Energy to Actually Get-together It. New York: Three Rivers Multinational. 2008. ISBN .
• Glad No Matter What: Transmutation Loss and Change into Gift abstruse Opportunity. Novato, California: New World Learning. 2010. ISBN .

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