Do you want to promote your art or photography to the world's top art directors and photo editors? Do you want to be in constant communication with decision-makers everywhere? But does your promitional budget read like a bad comedy script?   Worry not. Help is at hand!   The picture postcard is one of the cheapest, easiest and most effective marketing tools invented for visual creatives, and this fun-to-read and easy-to-follow guide shows you scores of ways to generate lucrative commissions on budgets that very rarely exceed double figures.   Illustrated in full-colour throughout and featuring examples and breakdowns of real promotional postcards from some of the world's top photographers, illustrators and film makers, and written by award-winning illustrator , Max Scratchmann, author of the critically-acclaimed Illustration 101, this book could be one of the best investments that you ever make for your creative career.

How to Grab the Attention of Art Directors & Editors by the Simple Use of Postcards

Arts & Photography

Scratchmann, Max

Graphic Design

Poison Pixie Publishing

Eilean Mhor, a small island off the West Coast of Scotland, surrounded by ocean and blessed with long white sandy beaches. It is here Danny sets up home with his oldest adversary, and greatest friend. At first all is wine and roses, glowing sunsets and fun on the beach. But it isn't long before old jealousies and ugly frictions start rubbing the bloom of newfound happiness off Elysium. First there is Ewan of the violet eyes and heart-shaped face, idolising Danny and hero-worshipping the dangerous Jackson Moore charisma. Then there is Morag, buxom, sweet and keen to replace her unsatisfying local boyfriend with something hunkier. And then there is Iain – a new Iain scarily like the old one in the one way Danny fears most: a cuckoo in the nest determined to steal his life for his own. DANNY 2.2 - Eilean Mhor, the most seductive and alluring volume of The DANNY Quadrilogy, offers us a different portrait of the Jackson Moores: happy, optimistic, even secure. But how long can it last, with hungry interlopers sneaking in every door, their gaze fixed firmly on everything Danny holds dear?

Danny 2.2 - Eilean Mhor

Literature & Fiction

Stone, Chancery

Genre Fiction

Named one of the twelve best travel books of 2009 by Worldhum, Chucking It All exposes the gritty reality behind all those twee bestsellers which extol the joys of sunny rural idylls. With its remorseless true-life account of downshifting to a remote Scottish island, Chucking It All uncovers the frightening realities of relocating to “a magical island lost in the mists of time” as you follow the warts-and-all adventures of urban misanthrope, Max Scratchmann, as he valiantly tries to forge a new life in the windswept Orkney islands, and grumbles his way through unending winters with eighteen-hour nights, nocturnal visits from drunken farmers and booty calls from desperate divorcees. From struggling to fit in as a temporary postman in a wilderness where houses don’t display numbers or names, to attending drunken country ceilidhs with the island singles’ club, or finding himself up to the neck in local politics while performing in the village pantomime, Chucking It All is an urbanite’s nightmare and one of the most hilarious books that you will read this year. Irreverent, sarcastic and bitingly caustic, Chucking It All still manages to be a grudgingly affectionate portrait of rural life through the eyes of a cynical outsider, and is one of the truest accounts of “living the dream” ever published. “Does for downshifting what Lewinsky did for Clinton – only much funnier...”

Chucking It All: How Downshifting to a Windswept Scottish Island Did Nothing to Improve My Quality of Life (Maverick Lifestyles)

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Max Scratchmann was born the son of a Dundee jute wallah and spent the first six years of his life in India before being taken "home" to Scotland in the bitter winter of 1963.  In Scotland for Beginners he tells the often painful, but very funny, story of growing up in the bleak grey-harled bungalows of Dundee's newly-built suburbs and learning to adapt to his native land in an era when the very fabric of the nation was changing.   Told as a series of humorous vignettes, Scotland for Beginners takes us on a sentimental journey through "auld Dundee" as Max struggles to decipher Scots dialect; buys school clothes from the formidable Miss Hannah at the Peter Street Co-op, and heroically endures the tortures of organised games at the Junior Boys Brigade.    Then, as the Sixties become the Seventies and the country is plunged into darkness by power strikes and the Three Day Week, the teenage Max goes girl-chasing at the Ice Rink; falls in love with Sally the prompter at the church drama group, and finally blunders into a dodgy drug deal in a garishly-painted tenement in the Hawkhill.  "Vivid, well observed and very, very funny…"

Scotland for Beginners: Learning to Live in the Land of My Fathers

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How to Grab the Attention of Art Directors & Editors by the Simple Use of Postcards

Danny 2.2 - Eilean Mhor

Chucking It All: How Downshifting to a Windswept Scottish Island Did Nothing to Improve My Quality of Life (Maverick Lifestyles)

Scotland for Beginners: Learning to Live in the Land of My Fathers