Bøger af Matt Dean

Welcome to Serendice, a tabletop role-playing game that embraces the thrill of unpredictability, inviting you to leap into exciting adventures! Serendice places luck at the forefront, embodying your character's resilience and their talent for turning challenges into opportunities. Instead of conventional health systems, your luck pool absorbs the impact of encounters, transforming close calls into exhilarating escapes and minor setbacks into triumphant comebacks.What sets Serendice apart is its adaptability. Unlike other tabletop RPG systems, Serendice offers a versatile framework that seamlessly integrates with any setting or world. Whether you envision medieval fantasy realms with magic and dragons or futuristic dystopias teeming with high-tech marvels and cybernetic intrigue, Serendice can be tailored to suit your unique vision. You possess the freedom to redefine rules, introduce innovative mechanics, or reimagine existing ones, sculpting a gaming experience that perfectly complements your chosen backdrop. Dive into thrilling adventures, wield the power of luck, and embark on unforgettable journeys. Serendice offers limitless potential for your creativity and storytelling. Experience the magic of Serendice in your next tabletop RPG adventure!

2010 Lambda Literary Award Finalist.Jonah Murray has known much happiness--a supportive mother, a decent job, and fulfilling hobbies. But after the end of his first great love affair, the rawness of his emotions leads him into a dangerous entanglement.Spike Peterson--heartbreakingly good-looking, imperturbably self-assured, relentlessly carnal--rekindles Jonah's longing for companionship. But Spike isn't the kind to offer companionship. Excitement, yes, but not companionship. Eliot Moon, a counselor who facilitates a support group for gay men, offers Jonah a more transcendent path to happiness. But Jonah soon discovers that to take Eliot's way, he will have to make difficult sacrifices.

Success in Film is the ultimate guide to funding, filming and finishing any independent film. Written by veteran filmmakers Julia Verdin and Matt Dean, Success in Film has been specially designed to help aspiring producers, directors, writers, actors, editors - anyone who wants to know how to take control of their own destiny in the world of film by making their own movies. Success in Film begins by helping the filmmaker define success for their film and in doing so find the best path to achieve that success. Whether you want financial success, awards, peer recognition, or just a great demo reel of what you can do, Success in Film can help you achieve that success one film at a time. Whether a film is intended for the big screen or the small, Internet release or Theatrical, this concise guide will takes the reader from inception to delivery. Topics include: how to find your story, how to find funding, how to deal with investors, how to make a business plan, how to make a budget, how to cast the film, how to find the right crew, how to work with actors, how do you get distribution, how to market the film, how to get into festivals, how to self release on amazon, iTunes or other digital platforms and much more! Success in Film is being called one the best books on the market today for aspiring producers. Written for filmmakers, by filmmakers who know the craft.

Leland Littlefield thinks he has a happy family, but the cracks are beginning to show. His wife of twenty-three years, Anna Grace, is distant and drifting further away, and his adult children are busy handling their own victories and disasters. Corinne is finding that marriage is more difficult than she expected. Ben is awaiting the end of a deployment in Afghanistan. And John Carter is on the cusp of adulthood and falling in love for the first time. In the face of change and loss and new love, will their family be a refuge, or will it fall apart?

The Beginner Drum Book 1 from Total Drummer is your first drum book to help you start learning drums. If you want to learn drumming this book will give you the perfect drum lessons to get you started whilst having fun. There's even a free digital course to support you that provides video examples of every drum beat, drum fill and exercise as well as providing play along drum tunes. It is primarily targeted at children to make the learning fun, easy to follow and with rewards after each section. But the content in this book will help all ages of children and adults to learn how to drum. By the end you will be a real drummer who can play drum beats and fills along with music. You will also understand basic sight reading and theory as well as knowing the core rudiments. It gives you a solid foundation as a drummer that allows you to push forward and continue learning to be a great drummer. This book gives you everything you need to learn at home as well as being a great book to use in lessons with your drum teacher. If you are just thinking about learning drums then this beginner drum book will give you an insight into what is needed. Because it is so easy to follow and carefully mapped out step by step it will provide all the skills and knowledge you need to be a good drummer which will give you everything you need to carry on as a drummer with confidence.If you need a children's drum book, if you need your first drum book, if you need a kids drum book, and if you need a beginners drum book, then this is THE drum book that you need!

Recent years have witnessed growing concern internationally in wellbeing and mental health across the legal community, a shift reflected in a host of initiatives, networks, reports and research studies. Changes to working patterns, generational shifts, and an increased interest in overall wellbeing have contributed to a growing movement towards better working practices - across all industries but particularly in high pressure professions such as law. The genesis of the lawyer wellbeing movement in the United States has spread to the UK, EU, Canada and Australia. In this opening chapter, Bree Buchanan, chair of the ABA Commission, covers the 2016 research regarding lawyer and law student impairment that served as the catalyst for creating the National Task Force on Lawyer Wellbeing. From this coalition of national organizations came the 2017 Report, which in turn launched a wide variety of national and state policy and practice innovations. Bree summarizes a snapshot of those developments.

Modeled on the brilliant approach first formulated by distinguished professor of music and master clarinetist Michele Gingras in Clarinet Secrets and More Clarinet Secrets (both available from Scarecrow Press), the Music Secrets for the Advanced Musician series is designed for instrumentalists, singers, conductors, composers, and other instructors and professionals seeking quick pointers to improve their work as performers and producers of music. Easy to use and intended for the advanced musician, contributions to Music Secrets fill a niche for those who have moved beyond what beginners and intermediate practitioners need.Drum Kit Secrets: 52 Performance Strategies for the Advanced Drummer is an indispensable guide for any drum kit player. Drummer and historian Matt Dean covers a broad range of drum kitrelated subjects to assist drummers already well versed in the instrument to advance and polish their skills for both live and studio performance.Drum Kit Secrets includes topics and tips on how and what to practice; how to develop one's timing and master the metronome; how to prepare for auditions and overcome stage fright; how to stay healthy as a drummer through proper eating, tried-and-true warm-up routines, and correct drum kit set up; how to select and maintain drum equipment; and how to create drum solos and improvise with ease. He also includes tips and tricks for mastering the studio setting, getting the most from one's drum kit, writing quick and easy drum charts, preparing for gigs, marketing oneself as a drummer, and much more.Drum Kit Secrets is the perfect resource for intermediate-level amateurs to working professionals. Dean draws on his many years as teacher and drum professional in this unique compilation of tips and performance strategies for advanced and expert players.

In The Drum: A History, drummer, instructor, and blogger Matt Dean details the earliest evidence of the drum from all regions of the planet, looking at cave paintings, statues, temple reliefs, and burial remains before finding existing relics of actual drums, which have survived thousands of years. Highlighting the different uses and customs associated with drumming, Dean examines how the drum developed across many cultures and over thousands of years before they became the instruments we know today.A celebration of this remarkable instrument, The Drum: A History explores how war, politics, trade routes, and religion have influenced the drum. Bringing its history to the present, Dean considers the modern cultural and commercial face of the drum, detailing its role in military settings and the development of the modern drum kit. This study charts the evolution of the recording studio environment, as well as specific analysis of the development of drum heads, sticks, and the often overlooked role of women on the drum kit. In addition, there is a look at the continuing evolution of the drum and its role through surveys of main manufacturers and the increased dependence on electronic drums, sampling machines, and drum recorders. As the first book to detail the entire development of the drum, The Drum: A History will appeal to every drummer, regardless of genre or style, as well as any reader with a general interest in the evolution of this universal instrument.