Product Details:

• How to Be Your Own Director!
• How to climb the Hierarchy of Mystery Entertainment!
• How to target the "Big Three" Reactions!
• Discover the Six Pillars of Entertainment Success!
• Learn powerful tips for Scripting and Rehearsing, and Choosing the Most Powerful Material!
• Discover invaluable Voice tricks and Language Skills!
• Do you know the best way for magicians to be Funny? This book will show you!
• Immensely practical tips on Sound and Lighting!
• Find out what the most successful performers do Before, During, and even After every show!
• Plus bonus chapters zeroing in on the special problems faced by Close-up magicians and Mentalists!

"I apologize for the cliché, but I just couldn't put this book down. I read it from start to finish, absorbing every word, considering every idea, and in the end I realized this is the magic book I've been looking for. I have my fair share of books, and I've learned some incredible effects and sleights from them... but Maximum Entertainment has taught me to make the most out of what I'm doing. It's a book that will teach you how to go from presenting puzzles to delivering highly entertaining performances that you will be remembered for.

Ken Weber makes clear distinctions between the average magician and a true entertainer, and it wasn't long before I realized the many mistakes I was making... some of these mistakes that I had picked up from watching others perform! He clearly illustrates his ideas on entertainment by using examples of professional magicians, highlighting the good and bad things these people have done in their attempts at entertaining their audience.

With this book, you'll learn how to effectively script and edit your presentations for maximum impact. It won't teach you any routines, but it will greatly strengthen the ones you have. The writing style is direct and to-the-point, and Weber makes efforts to cover up every angle of presentation... even sound and lighting!

If you want to maximize your performing potential (which will probably have a positive effect on your ability to book shows), I'd highly recommend Ken Weber's Maximum Entertainment. It has helped to give me direction in effective practice, and I have no doubts that I will see the benefits of my work in my future performances.

What are you waiting for? Get it now! "

"Finally! A well-written book by someone who has been there and knows what he's talking about. If you are seriously interested in making an impact with mystery entertainment, your money would be so much better spent here than on the latest trick or video. Read it, digest it. Let the material inspire you, provoke you and ultimately make you a better performer. "

"Insightful and inspiring. Fun to read. Destined to be a classic. I can think of only a few performers - a very few - who do not NEED this book! It's packed with more nitty-gritty, real-world advice than a whole shelf of magic books."