Quill imprint: 120 books
Manipurated
How Business Owners Can Fight Fraudulent Online Ratings and Reviews
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
“Manipurated” is a manifesto for business owners struggling against an online ratings and reviews industry that is holding their businesses hostage through manipulative practices. “Manipurated” uniquely combines an exposé of the shifty inner workings of this industry with a step-by-step playbook...
How to Write and Sell Simple Information for Fun and Profit
Your Guide to Writing and Publishing Books, E-Books, Articles, Special Reports, Audio Programs, DVDs, and Other How-To Content
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Packed with income-generating ideas about creating a variety of saleable written works, this guide includes information for researching and writing effective, instructional materials and calling upon a variety of publishing channels, including magazines, traditional book publishers, self-publishing,...
The New Comedy Writing Step by Step
Revised and Updated with Words of Instruction, Encouragement, and Inspiration from Legends of the Comedy Profession
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
Three-time Emmy Award-winner Gene Perret's ""Comedy Writing Step by Step"" has been the manual for humor writers for 25 years. In this new book, his first update, Perret offers readers a treasure trove of guidelines and suggestions covering a broad range of comedy writing situations,...
Pitching Hollywood
How to Sell Your TV Show and Movie Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
Two successful movie and TV producers provide the reader with the tools needed to create, develop, and sell ideas to Hollywood. Producers Jonathan Koch (""Beyond the Glory"") and Robert Kosberg (Deep Blue Sea) are known as the ""Kings of Pitch."" They currently have more than a dozen projects in development at major studios, including projects with Josh Lucas, Tobey Maguire, and Katherine Heigl.
Goal!
Your 30-Day Game Plan for Business and Career Success
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
What if you could achieve any goal you wanted, and you knew you would succeed? Would you start a business? Switch careers? Lose weight? Based on the authors' real-world experience coaching the world's top executives, GOAL! presents a proven, step-by-step program for achieving any goal in your career...
Put College to Work
How to Use College to the Fullest to Discover Your Strengths and Find a Job You Love Before You Graduate
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The future looks bleak for today's college graduates: 53 percent of Millennials are jobless or underemployed after graduating college, and 36 percent have moved back in with their parents. College tuition has tripled in the last decade, debt at graduation has risen to a full year's salary, and more graduates...
Editor-Proof Your Writing
21 Steps to the Clear Prose Publishers and Agents Crave
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Veteran editor Don McNair lays out an easy-to-follow and systematic method for clearing up foggy writing--writing that's full of extra, misused, and overused words--in this guide to producing sparkling copy that attracts readers, agents, editors, and sales. McNair explains the common mistakes made by...
The Bootstrapper's Guide to the Mobile Web
Practical Plans to Get Your Business Mobile in Just a Few Days for Just a Few Bucks
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Creating a successful mobile-web presence is achievable with the tools found in this guide--without needing to learn a programming language or become a Web designer. Such a presence is now a necessity, rather than a luxury, for all businesses, organizations, and independent professionals to stay competitive....
Fabulous Finds
How Expert Appraiser Lee Drexler Sold Wall Street's "Charging Bull,"" Found Hidden Treasures and Mingled with the Rich & Famous
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Offering an insider's look at the exciting modern art scene, this guide dishes out revealing stories and memorable encounters with the rich and famous--including Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Oprah Winfrey, and Luciano Pavarotti--as well as situations the author would rather forget, such as when a famous rock...
Real, Low Down, Dirty Truth about Hollywood Agenting
The Day-To-Day Inner Workings of Hollywood from a Seasoned Talent Agent's Point of View
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
In this book you'll find everything you always wanted to know about the real, honest-to-not-so-goodness, day-to-day inner workings of Hollywood. Not the glamorous Oscar-winning-Spielberg-red-carpet Hollywood, but the real-life daily grind of working Hollywood. For the very first time, a Hollywood film...
by Gene Perret
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Beginning comedy writers and performers may think funny can't be taught, but legendary comedy writer Gene Perret, winner of three Emmy Awards, tells otherwise in this guide to what makes a good joke work. Outlining the 10 commandments of comedy, the unbreakable rules that every gag must follow in order...
Living On Your Own
The Complete Guide to Setting Up Your Money, Your Space, and Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Striking out on your own after a lifetime of living with your parents is equal parts exhilarating and intimidating, but most of all, it is awkward. There is so much that people expect you to know that no one ever bothered to tell you—stuff you actually need to know to avoid bankrupting yourself...
Freelancing for Newspapers
Writing for an Overlooked Market
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Pick up the Sunday paper and consider how many stories it takes to fill all those pages. How can any newspaper staff produce so many stories every day, every week, every month of the year and keep up with breaking news, too? They can't. They use freelancers.This book serves as a guide to newspaper freelancing both for beginners and for more experienced writers who want to expand their markets.
Next Steps
A Practical Guide to Planning for the Best Half of Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Merit Prize winner, 19th Annual Mature Media Awards, National Media (Book) division. Written for older Americans, their Baby Boomer children, and everyone who cares for an older family member, this practical and comprehensive guide will help you build a strategy for coping with the unique legal, medical,...