Secrets Your Textbook Will Not Tell You: About TV, Movies and Life

“Secrets Your Textbook Will Not Tell You” is an inside look at the show business industry. For anyone planning to enter the entertainment business, this book has colorful and funny stories, valuable insights, and helpful tips and tricks on how to succeed. Fries shares life hacks he learned by working with Sam Simon, co-creator of The Simpsons, Gene Roddenberry, creator of the original Star Trek television series, Joseph Barbera, co-creator of The Flintstones, and other celebrities he has known. This is a fascinating and fun book.

Sandy Fries is a Professor of Mass Communication at the College of DuPage. He was an NBC Fellow at Columbia University and has written over 100 episodes of television shows.