How To Make A Living as a Professional Magician by Magnus and Dover Publications

Turn your interest in close-up magic into a more informed professional career with How To Make A Living as a Professional Magician by Magnus. This practical guide covers the work beyond performing, from finding clients and pitching your act to promoting your services.

Use Magnus’s advice as you plan your approach to potential employers, choose tricks for different situations, and prepare for the demands of working with audiences and coworkers.

• Career guidance: Explore the persistence and conviction involved in pursuing professional close-up magic.
• Finding work: Learn about making a pitch to potential employers and promoting and marketing your act.
• Choosing material: Consider time-tested audience-pleasers that can suit a variety of situations.
• Practice advice: Get guidance on practicing tricks for smooth performance.
• On-the-job skills: Read advice on performance skills, working with coworkers, and handling hecklers.

This Dover Publications edition was published in 2019 as a revised and updated republication of Magnus’s 1999 self-published book, Blood, Sweat, and Pinky Breaks: A Practical Guide to Making a Living with Close-up Magic. It adds a new preface, introduction, and other chapters, giving you more to consider as you map out your next steps in magic.