Here is a concise overview of everything you want to know about the magazine production process, from the conception of article ideas through printing and distribution. Looking at magazine publishing from the « micro view -- individual magazines -- to the « macro view -- industry trends, history, and issues -- this book contains chapters on how to launch a new magazine and write a business plan. Magazines: A Complete Guide to the Industry is ideal for students in magazine editing, management, and publishing courses; entrepreneurs who want to launch a new magazine; or magazine staff members who are new to the industry.

This book is an insider's guide to how the comic book industry works. You'll learn how comic book superheroes are created and the deeper meanings they represent. You'll follow the development of sequential art storytelling - from caveman wall paintings to modern manga and cinematic techniques. Here you will explore comics in all forms: those flimsy pamphlets we call comic books; thick graphic novels; Japanese manga; and blockbuster movies featuring epic battles between good and evil. But behind it all, you'll discover how comics are an intellectual property business, the real money found in licensed bedsheets and fast-food merchandise, heart-pounding theme park rides and collectible toys, video games, and Hollywood extravaganza featuring such popular superheroes as Spider-Man, Superman, X-Men, and Batman.

From a classic story by L. Frank Baum (The Wizard of Oz) to a turn-of-the-century holiday romance to Christmas on other worlds, these are short stories that only have Santa Claus in common.

14-plus murder mysteries, each solved in four minutes or less by a Key West original, an ex- NYPD homicide detective named Wharton "Four Fingers" Dalessandro. In between bar hopping, playing chess, and occasional housepainting jobs, he nails the bad guy (or gal). One finger missing on his right hand doesn't get in the way of this leftie Sherlock Holmes. "Fun puzzlers that capture the tropical color and eccentric characters of Key West," notes Mark Howell, editor of Solares Hill.

Take side trips to interesting points of interest around the US with a longtime travel writer who knows where to find lost history, rustic landmarks, little-known historic districts, interesting rock formations, scenic overlooks, millionaire islands that don't cost to visit, even the real Fountain of Youth.

Key West's Heritage House Museum created the Robert Frost Poetry Festival and Contest in 1994, based on Frost's visits to the cottage on its premises, now named after him. In 2010 the administration of the Robert Frost International Poetry and Haiku Contest event was turned over to The Studios of Key West. For the first time, the annual winners and selected entries have been collected into one volume, available both as an ebook and paperback edition. Here are more than 150 wonderful poems and haikus by some of today's most talented poets.