Lessons from the Set is a comprehensive filmmaking guide that takes a cinephile’s “Do It Yourself” approach to low-budget indie film production and distribution. The book is peppered with filmmaking tips and tricks, as well as valuable, practical insight into the process of writing, directing, producing, and distributing commercial feature films on a low...

The challenge of the tangram, the original "Chinese puzzle," lies in your ability to arrange seven geometrical pieces — a square, a rhomboid, and five triangles — into a variety of different shapes. Collected by Sam Loyd, America's great puzzle expert, these 700 endlessly absorbing tangrams offer hours of mind-expanding amusement.
Sam Loyd's The Book of...

When 20-year-old Odetta Holmes—classically trained as a vocalist and poised to become “the next Marian Anderson”—veered away from both opera and musical theater in favor of performing politically charged field hollers, prison songs, work songs, and folk tunes before mixed-race audiences in 1950s coffee houses, she was making one of the most portentous...

Of the many girl-groups that came out of the 1960s, none is more idiosyncratic and influential than the Shangri-Las. They were together only five years, but within that time they subverted pop standards and foreshadowed a generation of tough women in music. Critically, they are not lauded in the way of the Ronettes, and they are certainly not a household...

By 1985 Tom Petty had already obtained legendary status. He had fame. He had money. But he was restless, hoping to stretch his artistry beyond the confining format of songs like “The Waiting” and “Refugee.” Petty’s response to his restlessness was Southern Accents. Initially conceived as a concept album about the American South, Southern Accents’s marathon...

When the Rolling Stones hit the scene in the 60's, it was to play rhythm & blues, nothing more. They were far from imagining that they would change music, let alone become the mouthpiece of a changing world. Sticking their tongue out at the establishment with their brilliant music and hard-hitting lyrics, they achieved planet-wide success. With Mick...

Welcome to 2019!

In this, our fourth issue, we are honored with the presence of Regency Romance phenom Anna Bradley, as well as f/f author Geonn Cannon, whose impressive body of work includes the Urban Fantasy delights of Riley Parra, recently adapted into a multi-nominated webseries.

We also have thoughts on romance novel series that would make good...

California Slim is a laugh-out-loud coming-of-age memoir that tells the story of a gangly 14-year-old Palo Alto kid (Bernstein) who took banjo lessons in 1962 from a young unknown bluegrass banjo picker named Jerry Garcia, and ended up, sixteen years later, traveling the road with the Willie Nelson Family.

Welcome to these paranormal worlds of randy vampires, naughty necromancers and zombies who might eat your brains after they succeed at seducing you. This quirky collection gathers the funniest fantasy, weirdest paranormal, and most hilarious horror written by award winning author, Sarina Dorie. Included in this book of treats are stories previously...

This engaging book explores how Christians can most profitably and critically hear, read, and view popular culture through the lens of film. William Romanowski highlights the benefits of a faith-informed approach to cinema that centers on art and perspective and shows how Christian faith contributes to the moviegoing experience, leading to a deeper...

In 2019 Barbie turns 60. Never only a toy, she defines the stellar. In Plastic's Republic, Giovanna Riccio delves into Barbie's impact on female beauty highlighting how plasticity in body and persona have allowed the doll to remain top-diva. Other poems bring to life, Mattel's movers-n-shakers who created Barbie to be their in-house money maker. Riccio's...

Ike Holter’s Sender thrives on the contrast between order and chaos and the tensions that emerge as we leave childhood and adolescence behind to contend with the demands of “adulting.” In this comedy, Holter presents us with four millennial friends wrestling with these issues. While each is at a different stage of “growing up,” one of the friends has...

“Prepare to laugh” —Reese Witherspoon

From funny woman, Instagram star, and international comedy sensation, Celeste Barber’s Challenge Accepted! is a raucous, hilarious, and outspoken guide to life, unwanted gas, and how to rock a sexy scar.

Part memoir, part comedy routine, part advice manual, Challenge Accepted! is Celeste at her best, revealing her secrets...

In the spring of 1943, an a cappella male gospel quartet called the Kings of Harmony cut the first of many sides for the new King Solomon Records, a subsidiary of Savoy Records, itself a newcomer specializing in the emerging sounds of bebop. Unbeknownst to the quartet or to Savoy at the time, they were kick starting what would become one of the most...

This book is a must read if you match any of the following criteria: You are currently online dating. You have online dated. You will online date in your future. You are a smug couple. You worry your child is a spinster/bachelor for life. You like to laugh. You are a Jewish mother. You like to breathe and live and stuff. Is it a perfect match? Swipe right...

In Dead Precedents, Roy Christopher traces the story of how hip-hop invented the twenty-first century.

Emerging alongside cyberpunk in the 1980s, the hallmarks of hip-hop - allusion, self-reference, the use of new technologies, sampling, the cutting and splicing of language and sound - would come to define the culture of the new millennium.

Taking in the...

A book of haiku and illustrations from the mind of Martin, the talking, angst-ridden, introspective dog from the ABC TV series, Downward Dog.

Sam Hodges is part of the writing and creative team of the ABC TV sitcom Downward Dog and he provides the distinct voice for Martin on the show. Hodges is also an accomplished director, having won numerous awards for...

Anonymous break up stories from men and women, old and young, serious and silly and the cartoons that inspired them. Author and artist Hilary Campbell turns the painful into the hilarious, validating emotions from forgotten middle school tragedies to relationships that ended only hours ago.

Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell is an award-winning documentary filmmaker...

In Magnificent Obsession: The Outrageous History of Film Buffs, Collectors, Scholars, and Fanatics, author Anthony Slide looks at the way film has dominated the minds and lives of film buffs, film collectors, film academics, and just plain fans of past movies. Based on the author’s more than fifty years in the field and his personal, up-front knowledge of...

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The first-ever guide to the most ostentatious and over-the-top homes in rock ’n’ roll history. 

You can tell a lot about people from the way they live, and rock stars are no exception. From Graceland to Neverland, private planes to island hideaways, Rock Stars at Home takes you inside the houses, pools, planes, music rooms, playgrounds...

36 TRUE STORIES ABOUT THE BIG APPLE'S COLORFUL CITIZENS AND UNIQUE GRIT THAT SPANS 55 YEARS AND FIVE BOROUGHS.

An accomplished storyteller with a New York accent, M.G. Crisci portrays his experiences with people, their struggles, triumphs, loves and jealousies that meandered through his extraordinary life.

It is said that you can't take New York out of a New...

Finally-an intuitive, single-source standardization for naming guitar chords in the 21st century! A honing of guitar theory as a subcategory of music theory. Commonsense approach to all things guitar chord, including how to label alternate chord voicings. New concepts, including natural harmonics chords, unison chords, and octaval chords. A massive...

COVER STORIES; 8 Classic Songs Remixed As Short Stories

A new kind of book that takes some of pop's greatest tracks and "covers" them as short stories.

So would you like to find out…

Where The Beatles' Dear Prudence went out to play?

Who David Bowie's Major Tom really was, and how he became lost in space?

Why The Rolling Stones' Devil needed Sympathy… And more...

Alan was very good at smuggling and being a jerk. George had other talents - he was shy and homeless. 

But then Alan had to run for life. A drug lord got enraged. And George started looking much better. All this happened just because a girl threw out an old crappy suitcase.

Some of the story events already took place in real life. The best ones are yet to...

Adult Warning: These stories contain randy robots, naughty fairies and lawyers who fantasize about Star Trek. This quirky collection gathers the funniest fantasy and weirdest science fiction stories written by award winning author, Sarina Dorie. Included in this book of treats are previously published stories such as: Debbie Does Delta Draconis Eels...

Crime in the galaxy is a constant—whether it’s seedy deals made on the lower levels of Coruscant or organized crime syndicates in the outer rim—but how galactic law enforcement has defined those crimes has shifted with each change of power. Star Wars: Scum and Villainyprofiles the misdeeds of infamous smugglers, pirates, gamblers, bounty hunters, and...

Just in time for their 50th anniversary, one of the world’s most prolific bands is broken down track-by-track, album-by-album in this expanded edition revised to include rarities, outtakes, and B-sides from their storied catalog​.

Formed by the unlikely alliance of two ace London studio musicians and two bar-band bumpkins from the north, Led Zeppelin went...

As an August heatwave grips London, a crack sniper starts shooting the dogs of the great and the good on Hampstead Heath. It falls to DI Jack Love to solve this most perplexing of crimes and when a famous rock star loses his dog to the marksman, the whole country becomes embroiled in copycat shootings and a media circus.

Meanwhile, a new client for renowned...