Jumpstart Your Arts and Entertainment Career

Jumpstart Your Arts and Entertainment Career

Many of us participate in arts and entertainment projects. We long to be discovered. Funny thing is, if you’re like me, most of your friends don’t even know about your creative side. We should be our biggest promoter, yet we don’t take advantage of many opportunities...
Sam Wesst ~ Baby You’re the Best

Sam Wesst ~ Baby You’re the Best

“Baby you’re the best.” These lyrics play at the end of my recent interview with Sam Wesst. I know I’ll be singing those words to his song “Six O’Clock in the Morning” when the world discovers, as I already have, that he is a substantial new musical and writing...
Be a Snob or Make Money Writing?

Be a Snob or Make Money Writing?

In 2012 I wrote my first novel, Bushido. The gritty tale about a down on his luck Yakuza general that is forced to take up arms against his old boss (and a thousand other Japanese miscreants) immediately caught the attention of Kathy Ullman at Bantam Dell books and...
The Music Has The Power

The Music Has The Power

Damien Cripps, Indie musician, has the heart of a poet, the soul of a musician and the mind of a lawyer. He is all three ~ I was delighted to discover in our interview this Saturday. We are social media buddies going way back. We hadn’t Skyped in a long while,...
Get Paid to Play

Get Paid to Play

Is there anything fun about being a starving artist? Not really. If truth be told, maybe you’re not starving, but I bet entertainment is not your full-time gig. You’ve probably tried lots of ways to get noticed in hopes of being discovered.  Hopefully, you’ve made...