A comprehensive guide to finding the best paying gigs for musicians and singers, from their local area to the international stage. A music business veteran gives the inside track to creating a profitable career in the performing arts, from local clubs international cruise ships. Includes interviews with successful musicians and entertainment directors who share their secrets in landing the best paying gigs. Also includes directories of resources for further research.

Getting Gigs: The Musicians & Singers Survival Guide to Booking Better Paying Jobs

Business & Money

Curran, Mark W.

Industries

Nmd Books

A comprehensive guide to getting the best paying gigs for musicians and singers, from local to international stages - with or without an agent! A music business veteran gives the inside track to creating a profitable career performing music from local clubs to international cruise ships. This new updated edition includes interviews with successful musicians and entertainment directors who share their secrets in landing the best paying gigs. Also includes directories of resources for further research. “Unquestionably the best book ever written on finding gigs” - Michelle W. Benton, Warner-Chappel Music “If you want to make it as a gigging musician, this book is one of the best you’ll find” - Michael A. Lyons – Sony Records “A clear and concise manual on finding and making gigs for yourself in any market” - Arcy Donahue, CBS Records

Getting Gigs! the Musician's and Singer's Survival Guide to Booking Better Paying Jobs

Arts & Photography

Music

These fresh, original, high-impact monologues and one-acts are perfect for auditions, classes, scene study and theatrical presentations. Crafted to be performed by both young actors and seasoned professionals of all ages, the monologues and scenes in this book deliver raw emotional power and attention grabbing velocity - giving the aspiring, student or professional actor the tools needed for success! But be forewarned, these pieces pull no punches. They are unflinching in their language and themes...These are truly "Scenes That Sizzle!" "Startlingly original and unique, these scenes are impressive." - Garry Marshall, TV and Film Director "Excellent theatrical writing!" - Peter Streiber - Sanford-Meisner Center "Attention getting scenes that shine" - Rachel Horowitz, Abrams Casting Agency "Josh Brylsteen's stage writing is brilliant." - Martin Landau, Actor "Memorable characters that resonate with energy" - Jeremy Zeigler, Agency for the Performing Arts

Scenes That Sizzle!: Contemporary Dramatic Monologues for Actors

Brylsteen, Joshua Logan

Performing Arts

The Raven: The Selected Poems of Edgar Allan Poe - Special Collector's Edition 60 Poems - Includes Edgar Allan Poe Chronology and Biography Featuring: The Raven - The Conqueror Worm - Lenore - Tamerlane - A Dream within a Dream - Annabel Lee + 54 More Favorite Edgar Allan Poe Poetry Here finally collected in one compact volume are the very best selected poems of Edgar Allan Poe. Chosen by Poe scholars the world over, this award winning collection of the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe is sure to become a literary classic. All the favorites are featured in this Special Collectors Edition: including The Raven - The Conqueror Worm - Lenore - Tamerlane - A Dream within a Dream - Annabel Lee and much more - sixty of Poe's most beloved poems. Also included are an Edgar Allan Poe chronology and brief Poe biography. Don't miss this compact, stylish and easy to read Special Collector's Edition of Edgar Allan Poe's best poetry. Included: "An Acrostic" "Al Aaraaf" "Alone" "Annabel Lee" "The Bells" "Beloved Physician" "Bridal Ballad" "A Campaign Song" "Catholic Hymn" "The City in the Sea" "The Coliseum" "The Conqueror Worm" "[Couplet from 'The Fall of the House of Usher']" "The Divine Right of Kings" "A Dream" "A Dream within a Dream" "Dream-Land" "Dreams" "Eldorado" "Elizabeth" "Enigma" "An Enigma" "Evening Star" "Eulalie" "Fairyland" "Fanny" "For Annie" "The Happiest Day" "The Haunted Palace" "Imitation" "Israfel" "The Lake" "Latin Hymn" "Lenore" "Lines on Ale" "May Queen Ode" "O, Tempora! O, Mores!" "A Paean" "The Raven" "Romance" "Serenade" "Silence" "The Sleeper" "Song" "Sonnet - To My Mother "Sonnet - To Science" "Sonnet - To Zante "Spirits of the Dead" "Tamerlane" "To Helen" "To Helen" [Sarah Helen] "To M. L. S---" "To Margaret" "To Marie Louise" "To Mary" "To Miss Louise Olivia Hunter" "To One in Paradise" "To the River" "Ulalume" "A Valentine" "The Valley of Unrest"

The Raven: The Selected Poems of Edgar Allan Poe - Special Collector's Edition

Biographies & Memoirs

POE, EDGAR ALLAN

Arts & Literature

This book shows you in easy, step by step format, how to profitably sell your own recordings online. You'll read in-depth interviews, tips and tricks from independent musicians who have made thousands of dollars selling their music from home! Includes up to date lists and websites where you can promote your music for free, plus a bonus user guide on setting up your own home recording studio. REVIEWS: From The Critics Booknews Shows how to make money selling one's own music on the Internet, with advice on recording and selling music from home, designing a music sales Web site, becoming a guerilla music publicist, forming an online record label, and getting free publicity from TV, radio, print, and Internet media. Also gives instructions for setting up a home-based digital music studio. Appendixes list merchant account sources, music publications, online music sites, and indie music organizations, and explain Usenet, search engine placement, writing press releases, and Internet radio. The author is a music marketing consultant. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) (Barnes & Noble) The Midwest Book Review Written by a recognized expert in online music marketing, Mark Curran's Sell Your Music: How To Profitably Sell Your Own Recordings Online is a comprehensive, user-friendly, step by step guide to using the Internet in order to make money from your own music. Sell Your Music contains extensive interviews with independent musicians who have made thousands of dollars, as well as tips, tricks, and techniques to reaching your target market and maximizing your profits while minimizing hassle. Highly recommended for all aspiring performers whether they are soloists or band members. (Midwest Book Review) Customer Reviews "Extremely Useful Book! This book doesn't beat around the bush it gets right down to brass tacks of selling your own music over the internet. Curran covers all the bases, and gives detailed instructions, with plenty of diagrams. Easy to read, a great book." - Ramsay Hogan, a musician from Rhode Island, June 11, 2003 (Barnes & Noble) "This is a fantastic book I would recommend to any level of musician." - Faith Rivera, Recording Artist, Emmy & Grammy Award Nominee (Amazon) "Two thumbs up on an incredible book. Curran is a music marketing genius." - Gary Roman, Rock Group Romulus (Baker & Taylor) - "Curran leaves no stone unturned in his methodology for finding and marketing to an online audience" - Jeffrey Coronado - Alternative Music Press

Sell Your Music: How To Profitably Sell Your Own Recordings Online

The Only Book You Will Ever Need To Lose Weight Safely and Keep It Off In today's fast paced, high-stress fast-food world it's a challenge to lose weight and keep it off. Temptations are everywhere - on every corner of America - and we are an overweight nation as a result. Physician/Fitness Expert Dr. Jill-Anne Bennett reveals the best kept secrets about fitness and weight loss and details the most effective and proven ways to lose weight - and keep it off. She exposes the ugly truth about popular weight loss programs such as Weight Watchers and Jenny Craig - and tells you the things those celebrity spokesperson's don't want you to know. With this book you will learn safe, effective methods to lose weight, choose the proper excercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle - no matter where you live or work - and no matter how overweight you have become. So get started today with the "Little Book That Gets Big Results" and learn the secrets to 'Living Thin In A Fast Food World'. This book also includes Fast Food Restuarant Nutrition Charts for all the major fast food restaurants so you can quickly reference them from home, car or office. Includes Fast Food Restuarant Nutrition Charts "This is a wonderful book and it saved my life Dr. Bennett shows the right steps to weight loss you can apply in your everyday life to keep fit - even with the Golden Arches right across the street " - Jennifer Luxumborg, Virginia Beach, Virginia "Eating the wrong food at work was my biggest obstacle. This book has shown me the way to being thinner, healthier and happier " - Michelle Robinson, Des Moines, Iowa "I am a fitness trainer in a gym, and even I learned a ton of valuable information from this book - and picked up some tips and tricks to help me with my client workouts." - James Yeager, Pompano Beach, Florida "A well-researched easy to use reference manual on the perils of fast food dining, how to overcome it, and how to excel as a result." - Diet and Fitness Weekly About The Author: Jill-Anne-Bennett is a physician and expert on diet and fitness. Her nationally syndicated radio program "Fitness In A Fast Food World" has been heard on over 300 radio stations around the country. She continues to be in-demand as an author, lecturer and fitness consultant, while raising her two children with her husband on their ranch near Taos, New Mexico.

Living Thin In A Fast Food World: How To Lose Weight & Stay That Way

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Bennett, Jill Anne

Diets & Weight Loss

The Federalist Papers: America's Greatest Living Documents by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay With Bonus Features: The Declaration of Independence The Articles of Confederation The Constitution of the United States of America The complete final versions of America's most important Greatest Living Documents are now presented in this one handy desk reference. Ideal for study, classroom use, research, and inspirational reading, the original documents are featured here free of comment, opinion or editorial and presented exactly as our founding fathers intended. "A wonderful resource - finally someone has put these into a convenient, easy to read format." - The Congressional Review "Excellent, and cogent, a reminder as to how far we've drifted from the framer's original intention" - Dennis J. Kucinich - Congressman "Whether I'm using it from Kindle or in my office, this reference is a Godsend." - William Jefferson Clinton, Former President of the United States

The Federalist Papers: America's Greatest Living Documents

History

Hamilton,Alexander

Jay,John

Madison,James

Americas

Meditation Made Simple and Easy For Everyone! The Little Book That Gets Big Results Finally an easy to read and understand guide to meditation that allows even beginners to get results with just a few minutes of practice each day. Steven Chopra, MD explains the function and purpose of meditation, what to expect from it, and how to benefit from practicing these simple techniques. He then gently guides the reader step by step with basic meditations that will help relax the mind and body and eliminate stress, worry and fear. There is also a resource section on where to find tools and more information to help those who wish to pursue meditation further. "Doctor Chopra's book is an effective and easy introduction to meditation that is ideal for both beginners as well as advanced students." - Health and Wellness Institute "I was new to meditation when I found this book. It literally changed my life. I found it very easy to understand and the techniques work " - Denise Essington - Chicago, Il. " Well-written and researched and an excellent introduction to an age-old practice" - Lionel Garrett - Elkhart, Ind. "Bravo! This book works!" - Jennifer DeLeon - Seattle, WA.

How to Meditate: The Use-Anywhere Guide to Eliminating Stress and Worry Through Relaxation and Meditation

Chopra, Steven Williams

Alternative Medicine

First published in England in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is considered as one of the Great American Novels. The work is among the first in major American literature to be written in the vernacular, characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, a friend of Tom Sawyer and narrator of two other Twain novels (Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective). This book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. Satirizing a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist about twenty years before the work was published, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. The work has been popular with readers since its publication and is taken as a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It has also been the continued object of study by serious literary critics. It was criticized upon release because of its coarse language and became even more controversial in the 20th century because of its perceived use of racial stereotypes. It has been praised by the world's most revered literary icons, including Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams and F. Scott Fitzgerald. This Special Collectors Edition includes a forward by H.L. Menken. REVIEWS: "All modern American literature starts with Huckelberry Finn. No writer before and no writer since has accomplished what Twain has here." - Ernest Hemingway "I believe that 'Huckleberry Finn' is one of the great masterpieces of the world" - - H. L. Mencken "A true literary classic for the ages and a thoroughly enjoyable read" - New York Times

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Special Collectors Edition with Forward by H.L. Menken

Literature & Fiction

TWAIN,MARK

United States

NMD Books is proud to publish this complete and unabridged Special Collectors Edition of the final "Deathbed Version" of Walt Whitman's literary classic, "Leaves Of Grass." (1892), and includes a Preface to the original 1855 Edition by Whitman himself. Leaves of Grass has its genesis in an essay called The Poet by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published in 1845, which expressed the need for the United States to have its own new and unique poet to write about the new country's virtues and vices. Whitman, reading the essay, consciously set out to answer Emerson's call as he began work on the first edition of Leaves of Grass. Few works of literature have as controversial and difficult a history. Unable to find a publisher willing to take on his pioneering and unusual work, he initially self-published it in 1855. Throughout it's turbulent history, the book was both praised and reviled by critics, many of whom took issue with its occassional emphasis on sensuality and references to same-sex attraction, something that was considered taboo during the mid-to-late 1800's. Eventually, 'Leaves of Grass' was accepted as a groundbreaking and innovative work of literary art, one which inspired other poets to express more universal themes of love, attraction, and stream-of-consciousness imagery. Whitman continued to write and re-write Leaves of Grass until his death in 1892, and by the time this last edition was completed, the manuscript had grown from a small book of 12 poems to a hefty tome of almost 400 poems. It has since enjoyed massive success and stood the test of time to become one of the greatest literary works of all time and taken its rightful place in literary history. "The most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed" - Ralph Waldo Emerson "A work of great beauty, power and imagination." - Saturday Evening Post "Alive with the mythical strength and vitality that epitomized the American experience in the nineteenth century, Leaves of Grass continues to inspire, uplift, and unite those who read it." - New York Times

Leaves Of Grass: Unabridged Special Collectors Edition [With Preface By Walt Whitman]

WHITMAN, WALT

Poetry

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