Beyond the Craft: What You Need to Know to Make a Living Creatively!

Written by Jim Jermanok

Narrated by Jim Jermanok

Beyond the Craft: What You Need to Know to Make a Living Creatively! is a revolutionary, current and insider’s guide to doing what you need to do to make a living creatively. This bottom-line volume offers a unique strategy, philosophy and even vocabulary for the enormous worldwide audience of aspiring, working, and successful creative professionals and students.

It is based on those habits, tools, qualities that successful creatives share and is intended to empower you to reach the next level of your career without solely relying on others: agents, managers and other gatekeepers (casting directors, producers, etc.).

Using his own real-life experiences from an active and impressive 30-year career, Jim Jermanok will cover: distinguishing yourself; building confidence; obtaining and working with agents & managers; learning the business; effective networking with a simple networking system; the art of the schmooze; evaluating survival and industry jobs; new opportunities in new media, among many other essential topics.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Essential Audiobooks, LLC
• Release date: Jun 21, 2018
• ISBN: 9781987113822

Jim Jermanok

Jim Jermanok is an award-winning author, filmmaker, creative entrepreneurship expert, consultant and speaker. His words and photos can be seen in The Washington Post, Indiewire, The Huffington Post and The Boston Globe. He is the author of a bestseller on creative entrepreneurship, BEYOND THE CRAFT: What You Need to Know to Make A Living Creatively! and helped Fred Gelfand with his previous book, GOLF LIFE: Confessions of an Average Golfer. He is currently directing and producing a feature documentary about the art and life of Oscar-winning actor Martin Landau. Mr. Jermanok wrote and produced the highly acclaimed romantic comedy, "Passionada," which was released by Columbia Tri Star in over 150 countries. His film "Em" won the Grand Jury Prize at the Seattle International Film Festival and the Criterion International Inspiration Award, among others. Also active in TV and New Media, Jim Jermanok's new web series "LIFEADVICE.TV" has drawn tremendous praise since going live globally in late 2015.