Preston Bailey, one of the US' top event designers and a leading figure in his industry, answers questions on business. In an engaging advice-column format, he offers his guidance on the questions he is asked most frequently.

A practical and friendly guide to running your own creative service business.

By approaching workplace performance from the perspective of the theatre, my previous books2 have attempted to illustrate the connection between work and the world of drama and dramatic texts. Here now the emphasis is on performance at work, borrowing in many instances, as we shall see, from the theatre for the sake of satisfying an audience comprised of our stakeholders. That we are all performing at any moment is a noted idea. With the increasing presence of surveillance cameras in many towns and cities today, we are indeed almost continually in the spotlight. That said, personal performance in this book relates to our intentional actions as opposed to activities merely performed as habits or reactions to stimuli deriving from external sources. Focusing on performance, potential and the workplace, certain ideas were originally produced as material for my personal blog3 over the period June 2013-June 2014. Excerpted from the Introduction

An undercover cowboy is out to expose corruption when he discovers his heart’s true desire in this Western adventure romance. South Dakota, 1879. Trace Ballentine, investigative journalist, has gone undercover to expose corruption at a remote South Dakota hospital. And when his long-lost sweetheart appears out of nowhere—beautiful, vulnerable and with two adorable children in tow—he can’t risk blowing his cover. Lilleth Preston finds bumbling librarian Clark Clarkly curiously attractive . . . and strangely familiar. She’s sure there’s more to the mysterious, bookish Clark than meets the eye. But she has secrets of her own, and revealing the truth could put both Trace and Lilleth in grave danger. . . .