Focused Fandom: Cosplay, Costuming, and Careers
Are you a cosplayer, costumer, or both? Do you think about turning your interest into a career – or are looking to see how your hobbies can enhance your career?
This book is for those of you with a love of crafting outfits, dressing in them, or both. Containing over fifty different tips, suggestion and must-do guides, it will help you see your hobby with an eye towards making a new career or enhancing a current one.
Created from an extensive series of interviews and research, “Focused Fandom: Cosplay, Costuming, and Careers” is a guide for you and everyone you know to create a career out of your passion for making and wearing costumes, garb, and more!
- Easy organization – Three major sections help you focus on the advantages, career options, and career must-dos for people interested in cosplay and costuming.
- Over 50 specific tips, ideas, and suggestions – Zoom in on what’s going to help you the most!
- Exercises, challenges, and next steps – Helpful ways to get your mind moving so you can put what you learn into practice.
- Quotes from cosplayers and costumers – Get unique, personal insights from a variety of people just like you!
- Available in multiple formats – PDF, ePub, or Kindle!
Fan To Pro: Unlocking Career Insights With Your Hobbies
Created by Steven Savage of Fan To Pro, this book provides a guide to using what you love on your current job – or find a new one. This book:
* Shows the reader how their fandoms, hobbies, and interests provide them unique career insights and resources.
* How to use those resources to brainstorm new career ideas and opportunities.
* Provides a variety of exercises to find specific career opportunities in fandom, from ways to develop skills to relocation opportunities.
Fan to pro is a helpful chat, a useful guide, and a collection of mind-expanding exercises all in one book! Find out more at the Book’s Website!
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Convention Career Connection: Putting the Pro Into Your Con
Do you attend, present at, or run conventions? Are dealer’s rooms and panels your natural habitat? Then take your convention farther – by adding or expanding professional events with this guide!
Convention Career Connection presents an easy five-part system to coming up with unique career events, as well as an extensive list of ideas, suggestions, and resources for you to use. From creating high-tech panels across timezones to speakers you’ve never thought of, this book will give you new ideas, and help you create your own!
Convention Career Connection is your guide to taking a convention to the next level – the professional level! Find out more at the Book’s Website!
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Progeek Rising: The Best of Fan To Pro, Volume 1
Steve Savage takes you back to the first year of www.fantopro.com, the blog for professional geeks, fans, and otaku. Journey back to yesteryear with the best (at least in his opinion) of his columns from 2008 to 2009 and explore issues such as:
. . . relocating to the most fan-friendly areas.
. . . how to brainstorm careers.
. . . just what he means by “The Geekonomy.”
And much more!
Look back and enjoy the first year of Progeekery with this book! Find out more at the book’s website!
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Inhuman Resources: The Best of Fan To Pro, Volume 2
Steve Savage takes you back to the second year of www.fantopro.com, the blog for professional geeks, fans, and otaku. It’s his best columns of 2009 to 2010, exploring even more professional geekery, such as:
* A look into just how new media tools change what an individual can do.
* Steve arguing with himself over the role of backlog media content.
* The role of imagination in planning your career.
* How fame has changed in the internet age.
* His ever-continuing attempts to define and understand “The Geekonomy.”
Review the second year of Progeekery with this book! Find out more at the book’s website!
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