Alphabetical by Title
Acting: Make it Your Business
By Paul Russell
The Angry Filmmaker Survival Guide
By Kelley Baker
A Place to Sit
By Greg Forbes Siegman & C. Rozelle
Art & Fear
By David Bayles & Ted Orlund
By Elaine Gorgan Luttrull
A financial guide for artists, writers, performers, and other members of the creative class
*Available to check out from the SEA office
Art Fair Source Book
A book rating most art and craft shows around the country. There is a fee for the book.
The Artist’s Guide to Grant Writing
By Gigi Rosenberg
The Artist’s Guide to Public Art: How to Find and Win Commissions
By Lynn Basa
*Available to check out from the SEA office
The Artist’s Way
By Julia Cameron
Art Law Conversations: A Surprisingly
Readable Guide for Visual Artists
By Elizabeth T Russell
Also great for artists in other disciplines!
*Available to check out from the SEA office
Arts Entrepreneurship: The Business of the Arts
By Joseph S. Roberts, Ph.D. and Clarke A. Greene
*Available to check out from the SEA office
ART-WRITE: The Writing Guide for Visual Artists
By Vicki Krohn Amorose
Crafting effective artist statements and promotional materials
*Available to check out from the SEA office
the Barefoot Spirit
By Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey
How Hardship, Hustle, and Heart Built America's #1 Wine Brand
*Available to check out from the SEA office
Brand Builder Workbook
By Pamela L. Mickelson
*Available to check out from the SEA office
The Business of Being an Artist
By Daniel Grant
*Available to check out from the SEA office
The Business of Studio Photography
By Edward R. Lilley
2009 Children’s Writers & Illustrators Market
By Writers Digest
Coaching the Artist Within
By Eric Maisel
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Grant Writing
By Waddy Thompson
The Creative Habit
By: Twyla Tharp
Creative Careers: Making a Living with Your Ideas
By B. Jeffrey Maddoff
Creative Industries
By Richard E. Caves
Contracts between art and commerce
*Available to check out from the SEA office
Creativity
By Matthew Fox
Creative Screenwriting Magazine
creativescreenwriting.com
Designing a Digital Portfolio
By Cynthia L. Baron 2004
The Diamond In Your Pocket
By: Ganga-Ji
Dictionary for Artists, Performers, Managers & Entrepreneurs
By Chuck Suber
The Arts-Related Vocabulary of Columbia College Chicago
*Available to check out from the SEA office
Dip
By Seth Goden
Dramatists Sourcebook
From Theatre Communications Group Listings of contests, grants, and open submissions for new work
Emerge Already! The Ultimate Guide to Career Building for Emerging Artists
By Jade Simmons
Emerging Artist
By Margaret R. Lazzari
The E-Myth Revisited
By Michael Gerber
The Entrepreneurial Spark
By Jose M. Romaguera, PhD
Recognizing Opportunities And Developing Them Into Viable Businesses
*Available to check out from the SEA office
Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting
By Lynn Grabhorn
The Fashion Designer Survival Guide: An Insider’s Look At Starting and Running your own Fashion Business
By Mary Gehlhar
Final Draft
Software for screenwriting and AV scripts
The First Thirty
By Greg Forbes Siegman & J. Paxson
The Forest for the Trees
By Betsy Lerner
Get Clients Now
By CJ Hayden
Getting it right in print
By Mark Gatter
Digital prepress for graphic designers
Getting Things Done
By David Allen
Get Up, Get Out & Get Something
By Jerome Love
How Contrapreneurship Can Help You Build a Booming Business
*Available to check out from the SEA office
Glass Notes: A reference for the glass artist
By H. Halem
Guerrilla Marketing in 30 Days
By Jay Conrad Levinson and Al Lautenslager Entrepreneur Press
Guerilla Music Marketing Handbook
By Bob Baker
How to Be a Better Boss
By Gary Vaughan
How to Run Your Business like a girl
By Elizabeth Cogswell Baskin
Successful strategies from Entrepreneurial Women Who Made It Happen
*Available to check out from the SEA office
How to Survive and Prosper as an Artist
By Caroll Michels
Selling Yourself without Selling Your Soul
*Available to check out from the SEA office
How to Think like Leonardo da Vinci
By Michael J. Gelb
Seven Steps to Genius Every Day
*Available to check out from the SEA office
Live TV
By Tony Verna
Made to Stick
By Chip Heath
Mixing with your mind
By Michael Paul Stavra
Moneymaking Music
By Jeffrey P. Fisher
Your Complete Guide to Making, Keeping, Protecting and Growing Your Music-Success Fortune
*Available to check out from the SEA office
Music, Money & You
By Greta Pope, Ph.D
...Managing the Business
*Available to check out from the SEA office
The Only Grant Writing Book You’ll Ever Need
By Karth & Fox
Organized For Success
By Stephanie Winston
Top Executives and CEOs Reveal the Organizing Principles That Helped Them Reach the Top
*Available to check out from the SEA office
Performance Anxiety
By Eric Maisel
Personal Village
By Marv Thomas
The Power of Now
By Eckart Tolle
The Practical Handbook for the
Power Up with PR
By Jackie Abramian
A publicity guide for Artists
*Available to check out from the SEA office
The Purple Cow: Transform your business by being remarkable
By Godin Seth 2003
Producing Theatre
By Donald C. Farber
A must read for composers and playwrights on the legal and financial ins and outs of producing.
Profiles in Entrepreneurship
Edited by David C. Nelson and James D. Bell
Leaving More than Footprints
*Available to check out from the SEA office
The Real American Dream:
Creating Independence and Running a One-Person Business
by Sally Petersen
*Available to check out from the SEA office
Rebel without a Crew: Or How a 23-Year- Old Filmmaker With $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player
By Robert Rodriguez
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
By Robert KiyosakiTM
A book about finances and cash flow
The Rise of the Creative Class
By Richard Florida
and how it's transforming work, leisure, community and everyday life
*Available to check out from the SEA office
Risk only money
By Jack DeBoer
Success in Business Without risking Family, Friends and Reputation
*Available to check out from the SEA office
The Second City Almanac of Improvisation
By Anne Libera
Self-Promotion for the Creative Person
By Lee Silber
Selling the Scream
By Robert Fishbone
Tips and Steps to Becoming a Successful Entrepreneur With YOUR Crazy Idea
*Available to check out from the SEA office
The Self-Publishing Manual: How to Write, Print & Sell Your Own Book
By Dan Poynter
The Silhouette Man
By Greg Forbes Siegman & J. Paxson
Strategic Marketing Tools for Visual Artists
By Janet Bloch
*Available to check out from the SEA office
success@life
By Ron Rubin and Stuart Avery Gold
A Zentrepreneur's Guide - How to Catch and Live Your Dream
*Available to check out from the SEA office
The Successful Artist's Career Guide
By Margaret Peot
Finding Your Way in the Business of Art
*Available to check out from the SEA office
The Superman Syndrome
By Gene N. Landrum, Ph.D
You are what you believe
*Available to check out from the SEA office
Van Gogh Blues
By Eric Maisel
You Can Heal Your Life
By Louise Hay
The War of Art
By Steven Pressfield
A Whole New Mind
By Daniel Pink
Who Owns The Ice House? –
Eight Life-Lessons From an Unlikely Entrepreneur
By Gary Schoeniger
Write from the Heart
By Hal Bennett
Writing Begins with the Breath
By Laraine Herring