I
have provided a link to Amazon.com for each of the books. If you buy it through
that link, a small percentage goes toward helping me pay for the site and the
newsletter. Even better, you can click on the link, read a bit about each book,
and in many instances read other reviews of the books.
Keep
in mind that many of these books are truly reference (meaning you will look
at them a few times a year) and may be best utilized through the library rather
than purchasing them. If your local library doesn’t have the books, consider
creating your own library with a local art group or group of friends.
I’m
sure there are even more great books out there, so please take time to talk
to the reference librarian at your local library. Librarians are amazing people
with more knowledge about how to find knowledge than most of us will ever possess.
Value them as a resource as you would gold! This list has grown and grown over
the past few weeks as I think of more resources that are valuable to me. I don’t
think I could ever complete the list. That is good news! That means that there
is a resource out there for almost any information you need – you just
need to do a bit of research to find it.
The
following books are invaluable resources, in my opinion:
¯2003
Artist’s & Graphic Designer’s Market (Writer’s Digest
Books)
¯2003
Guide to Literary Agents (Writer’s Digest Books)
¯2003
Writer’s Market (Writer’s Digest Books)
¯Art
Marketing 101 by Constance Smith
¯Articles
of Business by Vivian C. Kistler
¯Business
Letters for Artists by M. Stephen Doherty
¯Career
Management for the Creative Person by Lee Silber
¯Dr.
Deming; The American Who Taught The Japanese About Quality by Rafael Aguayo
¯Gale
Directory of Publications (at over $1000, this is definitely a library resource!)
¯Getting
it Printed: How to work with printers and graphic imaging services to assure
quality, stay on schedule, and control costs by Mark Beach, Ph.D. &
Eric Kenly, M.S.
¯Getting
the Word Out by the Editors of Art Calendar
¯Guerilla
Marketing for Writers (note, I recommend all the Guerilla Marketing books!)
by Jay Conrad Levinson, Rick Frishman & Michael Larsen
¯How
to be Your Own Publicist by Jessica Hatchigan
¯How
to Get a Small Business Loan by Bryan E. Milling
¯Licensing
Handbook by Karen Gaugust
¯Marketing
with Newsletters by Elaine Floyd
¯Money
Management for the Creative Person: Right Brain Strategies to Build Your Bank
Account and Find the Financial Freedom to Create by Lee T. Silber
¯Self-Promotion
for the Creative Person: Get the Word Out About Who You Are and What You Do
by Lee Silber
¯The
Career Guide for Creative and Unconventional People by Carol Eikleberry
¯The
Complete Guide to Book Publicity by Jodee Blanco
¯The
Most Valuable Business Legal Forms You’ll Ever Need by James C.
Ray
¯The Small Business Survival Guide by Robert E.
Fleury
¯The
Standard Periodical Directory 2002 (25th Edition)
¯Writer's
Guide to Queries, Pitches & Proposals by Moira Anderson Allen
¯The
Writer’s Handbook 2003 (The Writer Books)
¯The
Writer’s Market Companion by Joe Feiertag & Mary Carmen Cupito
¯2003
Working Press of the Nation: TV and Radio Directory. Vol 3, 2003
¯Writer’s
Digest Handbook of Making Money Freelance Writing by Joe Feiertag, Mary
Carmen Cupito & the Editors of Writer’s Market
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