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The Story Biz Handbook How to Manage Your Storytelling Career from the Desk to the Stage
Dianne de Las Casas
ISBN: 1-59158-730-1
ISBN-13: 978-1-59158-730-9
408 pages
Libraries Unlimited
Publication: 9/30/2008
List Price: $45.00 (UK Sterling Price: £31.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Paperback
Trim Size: 8 1/2 x 11
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Description: Beginning with wonderful tips and advice about the art and presentation of storytelling, this is a complete resource about how to build a storytelling career. Storytellers come to their careers centered on the stories they love and soon realize that in order to make a living at what they love, they must build a business. This in-depth book tells them just how and what to do in every detail from choosing a sound system to building a Web site to using podcasts and setting up an office. There is even a chapter on how to plan for retirement. Each chapter is a story in itself, beginning and ending with different traditional folktale openings and closings.

This dynamite book merges the yin and yang of storytelling and business. Beginning with wonderful tips and advice about the art and presentation of storytelling, it is a complete resource about how to build a storytelling career. Storytellers come to their careers centered on the stories they love and soon realize that in order to make a living at what they love, they must build a business. This in-depth book tells them just how and what to do in every detail from choosing a sound system to building a Web site to using podcasts and setting up an office. There is even a chapter on how to plan for retirement. Each chapter is a story in itself, beginning and ending with different traditional folktale openings and closings. Resource lists and tried and true ideas abound as the author shares her marketing and business success story throughout.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
    Chapter 1: In the Beginning
    Chapter 2: Working with Stories
    Chapter 3: Storytelling Issues
    Chapter 4: Preparing for Performance
    Chapter 5: Performing Stories
    Chapter 6: Mastering a Sound System
    Chapter 7: Establishing Your Storytelling Business
    Chapter 8: Setting Up Your Office
    Chapter 9: Managing Your Bookings
    Chapter 10: Defining Your Market
    Chapter 11: Creating an Image
    Chapter 12: Printed Promo with Pizzazz
    Chapter 13: Extending Your Visibility
    Chapter 14: Developing an Internet Presence
    Chapter 15: Networking to Success
    Chapter 16: Marketing with Results
    Chapter 17: Making the Headlines
    Chapter 18: Seeing is Hiring
    Chapter 19: Getting on the "A-List"
    Chapter 20: Who's Selling You?
    Chapter 21: On the Road Again
    Chapter 22: Honing Your Craft
    Chapter 23: Storytelling in Educatin
    Chapter 24: Storytelling in Libraries
    Chapter 25: Recording and Promoting an Audio
    Chapter 26: Storytelling Special Events & Organizations
    Chapter 27: Working the Workshop Scene
    Chapter 28: Taking Care of You
    Chapter 29: Preparing for the Future
    Chapter 30: Reaching Beyond
About the Author: Dianne de Las Casas is an award-winning storyteller and author who tours internationally presenting programs, teacher training, workshops, and artist residencies. Her performances, dubbed traditional folklore gone fun, are full of energetic audience participation. Visit her Web site at www.storyconnection.net.
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