Linden Publishing: 95 books
How to Talk to Your Doctor
Getting the Answers and Care You Need
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
Showing patients how to take control of their own health care, this guide reveals how to navigate the maze of prescriptions and tests and offers advice for those who act as medical advocates for their children, aging parents, or others.
Books, Crooks, and Counselors
How to Write Accurately About Criminal Law and Courtroom Procedure
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Addressing the misunderstood and misrepresented aspects of the law in today’s writing, this reliable guidebook demonstrates how to use legal concepts, terminology, and procedure to create fiction that is true to life and crackling with real-world tension. Examples from actual cases are provided...
Teen 2.0
Saving Our Children and Families from the Torment of Adolescence
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
National Indie Excellence Awards, first prize in the Parenting and Family category Arguing that adolescence is an unnecessary period of life that people are better off without, this groundbreaking study shows that teen confusion and hardships are caused by outmoded systems that were designed to destroy...
101 Best Sex Scenes Ever Written
An Erotic Romp Through Literature for Writers and Readers
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Making the provocative purposeful, this analysis spotlights the most exciting--or potentially embarrassing--story element: the obligatory sex scene. This sensibly suggestive guide demonstrates how to advance plots and reveal truths about characters through their romantic tableaus. Each scene is accompanied...
Start Your Own Home Business After 50
How to Survive, Thrive, and Earn the Income You Deserve
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Written for people who are old enough to know who they are, what they want, and what skills they are best at, this guide shows exactly how to build a successful and profitable business. Older people are among the world's most successful entrepreneurs with a wealth of in-depth experience, education, and...
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...
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...
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...