(Photo by Helena Price) Emmett Shine is a creative entrepreneur from Southampton, Long Island. As the Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Pattern Brands, he leads a family of brands focused on improving daily life.  Beyond Pattern Brands, Emmett is renowned for co-founding Gin Lane, an agency celebrated for its role in the success of major direct-to-consumer brands. Over its 12-year run, Gin Lane was instrumental in building over $10 billion worth of market share for its clients, including household names like Harry’s, Sweetgreen, Warby Parker, and SmileDirectClub.

If you’re an author, you’ve likely commissioned work or thought about commissioning work on your novel in the past. Once, I had a friend of a friend create a cover for $50, and I was pleasantly surprised at the result. Another time, I overeagerly walked into a deal that cost me $1200, and I subsequently never published the book. Since then, I’ve become a little more cautious, understanding that costs do not determine how well a book sells, nor does hiring someone mean the book will ever materialize.

In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare’s most popular comedy, Lysander calls Hermia dark or black, and most critics take him at his word. But he only calls her this during the night of enchantment, after his sight is charmed by a derangement-inducing narcotic—the same that compels Titania to mistake an ass for an angel. According to five other characters, she’s “fair,” a term that indicates she has light hair and skin.

Running in Denver right now is like navigating the arctic tundra—even with temperatures back above 40 degrees, we’ve got everything from six-inch icebergs littering the roads to sheets of black ice sheathing the sidewalks.  Still, the treadmill is always my last resort. If it’s sunny and over 10 degrees here, I want to be outside. (Although I have my limits—after getting caught in Denver’s “arctic chill” the other week, I accepted a ride from a friend instead of running another 20 minutes home.

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