Rules for mavericks: a manifesto for dissident creatives

'Rules for Mavericks' is a guidebook to leading a creative life, to being a renaissance dilettante, to infesting your art form with other art forms, to taking a stand against mediocrity, to rejecting bloodless orthodoxies, to embracing your own pretension and, most of all, to dealing with your failure(s).

It is written by someone who has achieved and has failed in more than one field: Guardian columnist, award-winning teacher, award-winning broadcaster, author, editor, singer, songwriter, producer and public speaker, Phil Beadle knows a bit about leading a life producing good work in creative fields and broaches the techniques that orthodoxies use to silence dissident voices.

It is a 'how to dream' book, a 'how to create' book, a 'how to work' book and a 'how to fail productively' book.