A guide to the music business and its legal issues provides real-world coverage of a wide range of topics, including teams of advisors, record deals, songwriting and music publishing, touring, and merchandising.

"Everything You Wanted To Know About Freelance Writing" combines two popular business of freelance writing books: "Business of Freelance Writing: How to Develop Article Ideas and Sell Them to Newspapers and Magazines" and "The Six-Figure Freelancer: How to Find, Price and Manage Corporate Writing Assignments." "How to Develop Article Ideas and Sell Them to Newspapers and Magazines" shows you how to develop article ideas, write query letters, pitch your ideas to the right editor at the right publications, and follow up on your queries. It outlines everything you need to know to negotiate the sale of your work with editors who say "yes" to your ideas. It also reveals how to conduct effective interviews and shows you a variety of ways to write article leads. Focusing on writing material for businesses, associations, government agencies, non-profits and other organizations, "The Six Figure Freelancer" demonstrates how to plan and market your way to freelance writing success in the lucrative corporate market. Review: "One of the best things I have purchased for my business (not counting my computer) is Paul Lima's book Everything You Wanted to Know About Freelance Writing, which is actually two books in one. I highly recommend this book for new freelance writers, to give them an idea of how to get started in freelance writing, and for seasoned veterans, because the tips in the book might trigger ideas that can have a positive impact on business..."

Explains the types of grants that are available, developing a fundable project, understanding the funder, creating quantitative goals and assessments, and writing a successful proposal.

Forget the 10,000 hour rule— what if it’s possible to learn the basics of any new skill in 20 hours or less? Take a moment to consider how many things you want to learn to do. What’s on your list? What’s holding you back from getting started? Are you worried about the time and effort it takes to acquire new skills—time you don’t have and effort you can’t spare? Research suggests it takes 10,000 hours to develop a new skill. In this nonstop world when will you ever find that much time and energy? To make matters worse, the early hours of prac­ticing something new are always the most frustrating. That’s why it’s difficult to learn how to speak a new language, play an instrument, hit a golf ball, or shoot great photos. It’s so much easier to watch TV or surf the web . . . In The First 20 Hours, Josh Kaufman offers a systematic approach to rapid skill acquisition— how to learn any new skill as quickly as possible. His method shows you how to deconstruct com­plex skills, maximize productive practice, and remove common learning barriers. By complet­ing just 20 hours of focused, deliberate practice you’ll go from knowing absolutely nothing to performing noticeably well. Kaufman personally field-tested the meth­ods in this book. You’ll have a front row seat as he develops a personal yoga practice, writes his own web-based computer programs, teaches himself to touch type on a nonstandard key­board, explores the oldest and most complex board game in history, picks up the ukulele, and learns how to windsurf. Here are a few of the sim­ple techniques he teaches: Define your target performance level: Fig­ure out what your desired level of skill looks like, what you’re trying to achieve, and what you’ll be able to do when you’re done. The more specific, the better. Deconstruct the skill: Most of the things we think of as skills are actually bundles of smaller subskills. If you break down the subcompo­nents, it’s easier to figure out which ones are most important and practice those first. Eliminate barriers to practice: Removing common distractions and unnecessary effort makes it much easier to sit down and focus on deliberate practice. Create fast feedback loops: Getting accu­rate, real-time information about how well you’re performing during practice makes it much easier to improve. Whether you want to paint a portrait, launch a start-up, fly an airplane, or juggle flaming chain­saws, The First 20 Hours will help you pick up the basics of any skill in record time . . . and have more fun along the way.

Following on the heels of Lisa Cron's breakout first book, Wired for Story, this writing guide reveals how to use cognitive storytelling strategies to build a scene-by-scene blueprint for a riveting story. It’s every novelist’s greatest fear: pouring their blood, sweat, and tears into writing hundreds of pages only to realize that their story has no sense of urgency, no internal logic, and so is a page one rewrite. The prevailing wisdom in the writing community is that there are just two ways around this problem: pantsing (winging it) and plotting (focusing on the external plot). Story coach Lisa Cron has spent her career discovering why these methods don’t work and coming up with a powerful alternative, based on the science behind what our brains are wired to crave in every story we read (and it’s not what you think). In Story Genius Cron takes you, step-by-step, through the creation of a novel from the first glimmer of an idea, to a complete multilayered blueprint—including fully realized scenes—that evolves into a first draft with the authority, richness, and command of a riveting sixth or seventh draft.

WINNER OF THE 2021 GOLD LIVING NOW AWARD AND THE 2020 SILVER NAUTILUS BOOK AWARD From the world class spiritual medium and author of the “compassionate yet educational” (John Edward, author of Infinite Quest) I’m Not Dead, I’m Different comes an insightful exploration into what it’s like on the other side. Is there really an afterlife? Do spirits still feel love for us? What is it like when we cross over? After more than twenty-five years of bringing comfort to tens of thousands of people, Hollister Rand brings her incredible knowledge and experience to this accessible and comprehensive book that takes you on an eye-opening journey into the afterlife. With warm-hearted sincerity, Rand offers you a clear-eyed and uplifting view into an unknown universe and teaches you how to navigate your life on this earthly plane with eternity in mind. In an increasingly uncertain world, there is only one guarantee: we all face the same outcome. Featuring her signature humor and infused with authenticity regarding her own spiritual journey, Rand provides comfort, clarity, and laughs along the way.

CONFESSIONS OF A HYPNOTIST by Top Television & Media Hypnotist and International Celebrity Mind Therapist Dr. Jonathan Royle BSc is subtitled: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Hypnosis But Were Afraid to Ask and the title pretty much says it all. For many years now most Industry Experts have regarded Hypnotherapy by Dave Elman as the Handbook for Hypnotherapists and anything by Ormond McGill as must study reading for Stage Hypnotists, However at long last that has all now changed with the release of Confessions of a Hypnotist by Dr. Jonathan Royle - BSc This encyclopaedic course available in both Hard Back and Paper Back formats is an amazing compilation of many of Royles Ebooks including The Professional Art of Stage Hypnosis, Hypnotherapy & Complete Mind Therapy - The Lazy Mans Guide To Stage Hypnotism Make A Million From Hypnotherapy Hypnotising Animals for Fun and Profits Hypno-Tricks How To Be an Instant Hypnotist Theres No Such Thing As Hypnosis and many others! Not only have all of Royles previous works been compiled into one volume, but all of the information has been completely updated and extensively added to making this without doubt the most comprehensive Home Study Training Course on all areas of the Hypnotic Industry ever written or released to the general public. Indeed many of the Secrets, Ploys, Methods & techniques revealed within the pages of this course have never appeared in print or any other form of training course before, indeed they have been jealously guarded by the Most Successful hypnotists for years, but here for the first time Royle has decided to lift the lid and reveal the True Secrets of Hypnotic Success which can change your life and your clients life forever! To detail all of the mind-blowing secrets, ploys. And tried, tested and proven to work in the real world of Hypnosis & NLP techniques that this combined course contains would take hours, so here are just a few brief examples of the contents: A brief example of the Hypnotherapy, NLP & CMT Contents: What hypnosis is about and how it works. * How the human mind works. * Rapport, observation, recognition, and leadership skills. * Principles of verbal, physical and reverse psychology. * Hypnotherapy, Advanced Hypnotherapy, Hypno-Analysis and Creative Visualisation. * Inductions for the consulting room * Standard phrases for hypnotic inductions and how to deepen the hypnotic trance. * How to identify the trance states and awaken clients. * How to deal with abreactions and hard to awaken subjects. * Hypnotherapy scripts for stopping smoking, weight loss, skin problems, and confidence building. * Psychotherapy and how to tackle advanced problems such as acute depression and sexual problems. * The use of hypnosis for past life regression. * Shortcuts to alternative medicine. * How to increase your hypnotherapy business and income. * How to earn money from stress management and motivational training. * The Fast Phobia Cure Treatment Known as Neuro Associative Conditioning (NAC) * The Complete Mind Therapy (CMT) session structure. Many people have gone on to become successful hypnotherapists after taking this course. Take this opportunity and you too can enter this wonderful and rewarding occupation. "Thanks for the training, which was excellent value for money and has provided me with a career for life which I enjoy immensely!" Bill Graham www.hypnosis4u.co.uk A brief breakdown of the Stage Hypnotism Methods taught: What hypnosis is about and how it works. * How the human mind works. * Rapport, observation, recognition, and leadership skills. * Principles of verbal, physical and reverse psychology. * Seven different suggestibility tests to use before hypnosis. * Over thirty different induction methods and techniques to hypnotize people. * How to create your own hypnotic inductions. * Standard phrases which hypnotists use. * Standard

A down-to earth fully up-dated collection of the nation's top teaching rants, that offers solutions to the issues that really bother teachers.

A New York Times correspondent shares his financial successes and mishaps, offering an everyman's guide to straightening out your money once and for all. Money management is one of our most practical survival skills—and also one we've convinced ourselves we're either born with or not. In reality, financial planning can be learned, like anything else. Part financial memoir and part research-based guide to attaining lifelong security, This Is the Year I Put My Financial Life in Order is the book that everyone who has never wanted to read a preachy financial guide has been waiting for. John Schwartz and his wife, Jeanne, are pre-retirement workers of an economic class well above the poverty line, but well below the one percent. Sharing his own alternately harrowing and hilarious stories—from his brush with financial ruin and bankruptcy in his thirties to his short-lived budgeted diet of cafeteria french fries and gravy—John will walk you through his own journey to financial literacy, which he admittedly started a bit late. He covers everything from investments to retirement and insurance to wills (at fifty-eight, he didn't have one!), medical directives and more. Whether you're a college grad wanting to start out on the right foot or you're approaching retirement age and still wondering what a 401(K) is, This Is the Year I Put My Financial Life in Order will help you become your own best financial adviser.