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Created by established Chicago actor and teacher Chris Agos, Acting in Chicago demystifies the question of how to earn a full-time living as an actor. Learn about the seven ways Chicago actors make money actually acting, how much career actors can earn, agents, casting directors, essential investments to make (and which to skip), the actors' union, and much, much more. This edition adds new information on self-taped auditions, how Chicago actors can prepare for a move to Los Angeles, and how to get a child actor into the business.

Voice actors across the globe rely on commercials as a good source of income, but success in this area of the voice over industry can be tricky. VO talent need a strong understanding of the many elements involved in delivering captivating, original commercial reads. Commercial Voice Over Strategies: Tell a Story, Land the Job is the answer. Veteran voice talent Chris Agos walks you through a step-by-step way of ensuring your reads will resonate with talent buyers.

There are plenty of people earning great money from home as professional voice-over artists, but if you’re not already in the business, it can seem impossible to break in. In this book you’ll gain access to the exclusive world of professional voice-over in seven simple steps. Voice-over actor Chris Agos walks you through the most effective ways to earn money in today’s professional voice-over industry.

Recommended by agents and acting coaches, Acting in Chicago, 4th Edition demystifies the question of how to build a rewarding, sustainable, and profitable acting career. Everything you need to make a full-time living as a Midwest-based actor is at your fingertips in this updated edition.

Maxat’s on a mission. Years ago, his parents went missing. What happened to them, and where are they now? Only a magical creature can help him find the truth. An animal with a sparkling horn, who can travel through time! Before he can say "strawberry cake", Maxat is whizzing through history to a very important day. It starts off very well, but soon there is danger and disaster. 

Author Chris Blake has revised and updated his best-selling book of a decade ago. Do you have questions? Do you have doubts? Have you been hurt? Are you aching for something more? Great. You qualify to take the journey this life-changing book defines.

Betrayal tore apart the Stevenson family nearly two decades ago. Now, each remaining member must search for their own truth of that day in order to reunite and right the wrongs of the past. Orphaned for as long as he can remember, Owen Bradley grew up searching for an answer to his isolation. Now, a mysterious package arrives at his doorstep, beckoning him on a harrowing journey through Chicago with promises to answer all of his questions.

Twenty years ago, his Chicago political column was syndicated in two hundred papers, but he had an affair—and a son—with his intern, and lost it all. Now he writes a local column and drives for Uber to pay his bills. Jake is playing out the string when his tranquil world is turned upside down. His biracial son—an ambitious entrepreneur—is marked for death by a street gangster, his alcoholic daughter is pregnant and wants an abortion.

Barsoom is dying, its atmosphere thinning with each passing year, the seas that once flourished upon its surface dried up eons ago. When warrior-scientist Dat Voga is asked to become Helium’s ambassador to distant cities that may provide a desperate chance at life for the people of Barsoom, he leaps at the opportunity. But even as this new hope dangles on a thread, a madman seeks to hasten the Red Planet’s doom—and Dat Voga is hurled headlong upon an odyssey across the chasm of Time itself!

Maddie Baker hasn’t seen Detective Noah Langley since he ghosted her a month ago, but now she needs his help to find a missing woman. When Maddie Baker offers a self-defense course, a terrified young woman asks her for private lessons to escape a chokehold. Maddie readily agrees to meet Amy the next morning, but when she doesn’t show up, Maddie becomes concerned.

Cy isn't the mating kind. Cy Pataki doesn't get attached. He's a damn good agent who enjoys his job protecting Crescent City, but to keep it, he must mate the witch his pack lined up for him twenty years ago.

A century and a quarter ago, Bram Stoker unleashed the unbridled horror of Count Dracula upon the world. We can only wonder if he ever imagined the impact his creation would have on not only the horror world, but across the globe. Vampires have become a foremost staple of horror stories and have been represented in both print and film countless times over the decades–and their mythos has grown unchecked, evolved, and taken root in the collective consciousness of old and young, horror fans and non-horror fans alike.

You know what I don’t have time for? The brooding, dark-eyed former love of my life showing up when my life is finally settling down. I don’t have time for Hunter Buchanan and that intense look in his eyes. The way he loved me so perfectly all those years ago.

Four hundred years ago, an apocalyptic Greatstorm shattered civilization and ushered in a new age of darkness. Now, devastating Storms strike every night, ripping open the heavens and summoning feral, alien creatures known as ghoblins. Humanity teeters on the brink of extinction. Ghoblins armies assemble as the Storms grow in fury, and in the darkness there are whispers of a new Greatstorm rising...Prophecy calls it the Worldstorm.

They’ve lived among us for decades without incident. Until now. The Caelans are a nonviolent and technically advanced people who long ago conquered anger and interstellar travel. Virtually indistinguishable from us, they hide in plain sight. They live in our neighborhoods and work in our offices. But something unexpected happens at their base of operations in the Midwestern United States. Anger begins to infect some of them - like a disease. When the mysterious outbreak takes their leader, Regulus Lafaye, he becomes hostile and violent.

Naomi Winters will be 40 soonish, and she’s only been with one man. One night. One time. Long ago. She believes everything happens for a reason, and the universe spoke about Nathan Ryder. Nathan Ryder isn’t the same man who hightailed his bike out of Green Valley, 18 years ago. As a rule breaker, women are one area he acts a fool. Case in point, the local librarian. He can’t get a read on her, but she’s one risk he’s willing to take. Again.

Until recently, Isobel has always loved The Close. A quiet road of large houses tucked away in the beautiful English countryside, it seemed like the perfect place to live. Then, six months ago, a young man was killed in a mysterious hit-and-run incident. The police investigated, but no one was charged, which left a bad feeling in this little community, a feeling that someone knows more than they are saying. 

This is an Alaska shaman thriller-terror novel that starts over 100 years ago in Alaska, and ends up in New York City during the late 1990s. Alaska Crying Baby centers around a village shaman who goes to New York City to claim the body of his slain grandson. Using his powerful medicine, the shaman finds out who killed him, and then avenges his death by summoning the northern lights that contain the evil and immortal spirit, the Crying Baby.

Professor Lily Shelley is frantic to find her wife, Penny, who vanished two weeks ago. No one else seems to be looking very hard, not the police or even Penny's family. As Lily refuses to give up hope, she continues searching for clues, even as she teaches English at Moraine University. In her search, she stumbles into a magical world: a college for wizards hidden in forgotten places at the university. Her favorite students come to her aid, helping her retrace Penny's steps to learn the secrets of the School of Applied Metaphysics in hopes of rescuing her wife. 

In a quiet church, on a busy London street, 12-year-old Donovan Blair is found dead. His hands are clasped together as if in prayer. Fearing the murderer may already have another child in his sights, Dan and Lexi work together to establish links between the two deaths and soon discover that not only were both children in care - they had attended the same school. And when it emerges that Lexi’s new boyfriend works there, things become difficult between her and Dan. How much can he tell Lexi about the case? And could she be at risk?