Truth in Action – My eBook on Acting

I didn’t want to write it. I umm’d and aaaarrr’d and put it off. I have almost 500 blogs, plenty of resources and enough time to do it. But there always seemed like something a bit crappy about an ebook on acting. The ones that I’d seen were either free, and of about the same use and value OR they were on stupidly gaudy websites promising those things that they could never, ever deliver. Then there were real print books on acting, the which I could count on one hand the number of useful books on acting have actually been published. Those that I think are worth a read are in my Amazon aStore if you’re interested.

I’m about 100 pages in. I’ve bought the domain name, purchased the ecommerce plug-in, written the copy and now I have to finish the book.

Truth in Action is about how we need to remove the performing and the pretend from our acting if we want to reach the most truthful, organic, sincere, honest, authentic acting. It’s heavily influenced by my background, my training and my belief in the power of the individual to effect positive change for themselves. It won’t tell you how to get a job, I’m not an agent or a manager, but it will help actors to think of acting in different terms, in terms that will allow them to become the best that they can be.  I’m an acting coach, not a recruitment agent, I can help you to become a more natural actor, more honest, more authentic, but I can’t walk you in the door of a casting director, that’s not what I do.

There may still be a print book in the future, but for the time being, I’m going to enjoy the self discipline of finishing this book and sharing it with everyone.  And for those lovely people who keep visiting the website for the book, stop it! There’s nothing to buy yet, but soon… very soon!