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Eighteen titles from two decades inside music and entertainment — focus and discipline, the major label machine, producing, money systems, envy and betrayal, and building a career on set. Pick what you're reading for and the shelf reorders itself.
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A wake-up call for the dreamers, the grinders, and the underestimated. Pulliam dismantles the myth that money is the starting point for success and replaces it with mindset, skill, and relentless effort — a blueprint for building from nothing in the digital economy.
Read it if: Starts where most people stall: mindset and effort before money. Read it if you keep starting and never finishing.
Pulliam dissects the anatomy of distraction — from the dopamine traps of social media to the false promises of instant success — and exposes how a culture that profits from your inattention erodes discipline and identity.
Read it if: Names the dopamine traps stealing your writing hours and gives you the discipline to take them back.
An actionable blueprint for music students in Los Angeles and beyond to land internships through university routes, industry programs, personal branding, social media, and entrepreneurial projects.
Read it if: The practical path into industry rooms: traditional routes plus branding and entrepreneurial moves that actually get answered.
A behind-the-scenes journey through a typical day at a top-tier major label: intense negotiations, creative battles, budget debates, legal disagreements, and the strategic moves that shape chart-topping careers.
Read it if: Shows the negotiations, budgets, and legal fights behind hit records — the context most writers never get before signing.
A guide to the secrets behind breaking new artists, navigating major labels, and shaping careers — from playlist influence and social power to the artistry behind marketing a record.
Read it if: Breaking artists, playlist influence, and marketing craft — the mechanics behind why some records chart and yours doesn't.
The essential manual for the Producer-Executive: in today's landscape you don't get what you deserve, you get what you have the power to protect. Strategies for treating a hit record as a high-performing financial asset.
Read it if: For producers who want ownership, not credits. Treats a record as a financial asset you protect, not just art you make.
A bold exploration of how wealth, taxation, and systemic design shape the modern financial world — exposing the hidden mechanics of the tax code, capital gains, and the structures that determine who thrives.
Read it if: Read this before you sign anything. Tax code, capital gains, and the structures that quietly decide who keeps their money.
Nobody cares about the semiotics of your shadow placement when the generator blows, the lead is having a crisis, and you're bleeding $113 a minute of the investor's money. The professional reality of running a set.
Read it if: The blunt version of directing: budgets bleeding, crises on set, and why 'protecting your vision' gets you fired by lunch.
An experience-driven guide for anyone building a sustainable career in television and film — as producer, actor, or both — bridging theory and practice with candor and cinematic insight.
Read it if: A full career guide for producers and actors, drawn from real credits — BET Awards, Family Still Matters, Trap Harder.
A forensic deep-dive into the dark psychology of social parasitism and the mechanics of exploitation — not a guide to better friendships, but a manual for psychological and spiritual survival.
Read it if: For creatives whose generosity keeps getting farmed. A manual for cutting off the people quietly running you dry.
For those whose generosity has been met with deceit and whose spirit has been tested by manipulation and isolation — a testament to resilience and a map back to an unbroken life.
Read it if: Written for people whose trust was traded for someone else's gain — clarity, protection, and rebuilding after manipulation.
Jealousy is a silent predator hiding behind smiles and secrets. This book reveals the traits, signs, and secret ways envy manifests — and how gossip, slander, and deception dismantle relationships.
Read it if: Teaches you to read the traits and signs of envy before it costs you a relationship, a room, or a career.
A biblical perspective on overcoming love, jealousy, and power gone wrong — using vivid stories and scripture to show how envy and selfish ambition create disorder and every evil practice.
Read it if: Rooted in James 3:16 — how envy and selfish ambition wreck peace, partnerships, and whole communities.
Bold, ancient, and unflinching: timeless proverbs woven with modern parables across seven sections of betrayal, downfall, and redemption — reckless companions, wrathful men, flattering enemies, and false friends.
Read it if: Seven sections of proverbs and parables on foolish living versus wise conduct — decision-making you can apply this week.
Drawing on biblical metaphor and real-life reflection, Pulliam exposes how people live blind to their potential, deaf to their inner voice, and silenced by fear — then shows how to move again.
Read it if: For the writer stuck in fear and doubt — names the spiritual and psychological blocks keeping the work unfinished.
What happens when you're treated like a suspect before you've done anything wrong? A deeply personal journey into modern policing, racial profiling, institutional power, and accountability in America.
Read it if: A personal account of profiling and accountability — source material for writers telling true, high-stakes American stories.
When a ritualistic killer known as The Reaper begins a gruesome harvest in Chicago, a group of friends discovers they are the primary targets. The killer's cryptic scythe links them to a dark secret they thought was buried, and their only hope for survival lies inside the abandoned Haddonfield Hospital.
Read it if: A working model of suspense structure — escalation, paranoia, and a secret that pays off. Read it if you're building dread on the page or on screen.
A heartfelt story of faith, love, and wisdom following Alander Pulliam's journey from naive generosity to discerning compassion. Through personal trials, friendships, and spiritual reflection, he learns to balance selfless service with wisdom.
Read it if: For the giver who keeps getting drained — turns naive generosity into discernment without killing the compassion.
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