How to plan a super party your friends, co-workers, kids, or kin will be talking about forever! The magic ingredients? A TREASURE HUNT, a SCAVENGER HUNT, and BRAINSTORMERS! What makes this a once-in-a-lifetime SPECIAL PARTY? You’ll create your own clues (it's easy and fun—we'll show you how), then just follow the book’s ready-to-go party instructions. walks you through it all, step by step… The book provides all of the details needed to amuse, delight, and bewilder your family and friends at the party of the year! It shows what you do when. It includes hundreds of ideas, a "magic checklist," and a ready-made scavenger list—precisely what you need to know and do to make you properly look like a genius! Bring back the old-fashioned treasure and scavenger hunts! Better yet, combine them into a super party! Be the host of the year! Here, Gordon Burgett gives you hundreds innovative themes and clues, a script, safety and timing guides, everything for memorable events for kids, teens, and adults. Learn... * How to write fun, challenging clues * How to avoid problems with safety * How to create a beguiling scavenger hunt list * How to plan a super party around the hunts * Where to hide the items sought so they're never taken * How to add more enjoyment with brainstormers Even more than a step-by-step guide, this book also includes 23 model Treasure Hunt clues, 145 suggestions for a Scavenger Hunt list, 15 Brainstormers, and a 70-item checklist for the Super Party! What are BRAINSTORMERS? They're Gordon’s invention. They will make your party the best ever. There are 15 of them in the book, and once you get the hang of them, you can create another dozen right away. (You'll only need 6-12 total to keep your hunters frothing with fun.) Hunts for adults, teens, kids… They can be inside your house or school or church, in a park or yard, within a city block, or city- or county-wide… Hunts that can include cars, feet, phones, computers, digital cameras—or the players can be immobile! How many can take part in the hunt? Four or 40 or a whole city. (An entire NJ town once used this book to plan their massive outing!) Hunts can be for your family, friends, church, company, cruise, lodge… Who doesn't love treasure and scavenger hunts? Here’s the book that shows you how.
Gordon Burgett currently speaks nationwide about his three arenas of specialization: "How to Get Your Book Published Free in Minutes and Marketed Worldwide in Days," "Niche Publishing: Publish Profitably Every Time," and "Empire Building by Writing and Speaking," offering keynotes, break-out sessions, and workshops at conventions, retreats, and colleges or universities. (See www.gordonburgett.com; for seminar descriptions, please see www.gordonburgett.com/seminars.htm.)
In late 2010, Gordon published "How to Get Your Book Published Free in Minutes and Marketed Worldwide in Days." In bound and/or digital format, it is available from Gordon, Amazon.com, lulu.com, lightningsource.com, createspace.com, smashwords.com, and as a Kindle book. (See www.ancillarypublishing.com.) He then published a how-to example of that book's thesis in "How to Create a High School Graduation Book."
Burgett has also published 1,700+ articles and 40 books, plus offered over 2,000 professional spoken presentations, mostly to associations and conventions and through university extension programs. During that time he has appeared extensively on radio and TV, as a guest author and a publishing specialist. Burgett is a long-standing member of the National Speakers Association, the American Society of Authors and Journalists, and the Independent Book Publishers Association and has produced 26 audio CD and cassette programs. His published books also include How to Sell 75% of Your Freelance Writing, the Travel Writer's Guide, Speaking for Money (with Mike Frank), Sell and Resell Your Magazine Articles (for Writer's Digest Books), Treasure and Scavenger Hunts, Life After Dentistry (with Dr. Jay Hislop), Standard Marketing Procedures for Dentists, The Writer's Guide to Query and Cover Letters, Standard Marketing Procedures for All Dentists (with Reece Franklin), Ten Sales from One Article Idea, and The Query Book. (See www.gordonburgett.com for specifics about each book or product.)
Four of Burgett's books have been Writer's Digest Book Club top choices: Sell and Resell Your Magazine Articles, The Travel Writer's Guide, The Writer's Guide to Query and Cover Letters, and How to Sell More Than 75% of Your Freelance Writing.
Gordon has owned and directed a publishing company, Communication Unlimited, since 1981. It originally specialized in (and continues to offer) books, reports, and cassettes about writing, empire-building, and niche publishing. In 1995, his company merged with Marsha Freeman's Team Systems and created Dental Communication Unlimited and Medical Communication Unlimited, to begin a series of standard operating procedures manuals (and other, related office operations products) for health care professionals. In 2007, Gordon sold Dental Communication Unlimited to Marsha. (See www.sops.com.) For the past five years its education imprint has published key education books for superintendents, principals, and K-12 teachers, including What Every Superintendent and Principal Needs to Know, Teachers Change Lives 24/7, The Perfect School, and Finding Middle Ground in K-12 Education: Balancing Best Practices and the Law. (See www.superintendents-and-principals.com.)
Burgett earned four academic degrees: B.A., University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana (Latin American Studies), M.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison (Luso-Brazilian Studies), M.F.T., Thunderbird Graduate School (Foreign Trade), and an M.A., Northern Illinois University (History). He was twice a university dean, taught Portuguese and history, created a city recreation program in Illinois, directed CARE (and Peace Corps) programs in Colombia and Ecuador (including the Land Directorship of the HOPE ship medical/dental program in Guayaquil), twice studied in Brazil, played professional baseball, and led a gold hunt up the Paushi Yaco (Upper Amazon) River in Ecuador.
He survived to write newsletters, articles, and books. See the newsletter at www.gordonburgett.com/nl.htm. He also has a blog at www.blog.gordonburgett.com.
