jim green

Why a 50-year old Marketing Ploy Works Even Better Today

As I approach my 80th birthday I am becoming more and more aware of the power in the old adage, "what goes around comes around". I have just introduced my daughter to an ageless marketing concept I first used as a young man fifty years ago when I launc... Read >

Galvanize Your Creative Writing with Whole-Brained Thinking

One morning in early August 2010 I awoke to irrefutable verification that I had entered the first day of my 80th year on this planet. Despite the relentless march of time I am still writing, painting watercolors, creating and running online businesses.... Read >

Magical Things Happen When You Aspire to Best Seller Status!

When you aspire to best seller status before you write a single word of your book, magical things really do happen; phenomenal occurrences such as…. • You multiply the odds one hundredfold of having a proposal for publication accepted; • You o... Read >

Why Project Researches Are Your Stock-in-Trade

You should never ever dispose of your research material. Why shouldn't you do that? Quite simply because you never know when it might come in handy; the questions to which you found answers for your first project will return again and again in diffe... Read >

How to Cash In on Your Rejected Non-Fiction Titles

Even established authors get the thumbs down from publishers on submission of new work. I should know because despite having 37 traditionally published titles under my belt, I have around a dozen still unpublished. Here is what I did and what do i... Read >

Some Thoughts on Crafting Fiction

Like any idea you conceive in life, fiction starts and ends in the mind; first in the conscious, then the subconscious, and finally digging deeper into the labyrinth of ageless wisdom; the subconscious, the ever-lasting fountain of imagination and inspira... Read >

Hitting the High Spots Without the Support of a Mainstream Publisher

Traditional publishing houses don't always get it right when it comes to spotting potential winners. Nowadays they operate under considerable pressure with profit margins cut to the bone as major retailers, online and offline act more and more like sup... Read >

Why Residual Earnings Are What Every Creative Writer Aspires To...

Residual earnings are what every creative writer sets out to achieve; passive income from traditionally published book sales, offline and online; royalties that increase year-on-year with multiple editions and reprints. Add to that PLR (public lending lib... Read >

All That Glisters is Not Gold

First time out of the traps as an embryo author I got three offers of publication. The first two were from long established publishing giants and the third from a smallish comparative newcomer. I chose the newcomer. Now why did I do that when cle... Read >

What's So Special About Traditional Publishing?

"Traditional" publishing relates to the long established practice whereby companies buy the rights to make selected works public. A traditional publisher, whether small or large, will select the best work out of many submissions, draw up a contract wit... Read >

Don't Bin Your Research; You Never Know When It Might Come In Handy Again…

It happened to me just recently… I was reviewing a mountain of files containing research material gathered over the years; years when I was churning out one book after another, articles galore for offline and online magazines, fulfilling my obligations... Read >

Why I Packed My Lifetime Knowledge Into A Single File…

Well, not quite my lifetime knowledge, but certainly all of my expertise relating to creative writing, achieving publication, and aspiring to bestseller status in every literary work I set out to create. So why have I done this: pack all my knowledge i... Read >

I'm Giving Away My Proven Formula on How to Get a Book Published

If you are going to follow any formula on how to get a book published you'd better make sure it comes from an established bestselling author. My proven formula does… During the last ten years I've had over 30 fiction and non-fiction books published;... Read >

How a Unique Little Workbook Helps Seniors Earn Money Online in Retirement

How would you like to wake up in the morning to messages in your email inbox with a subject line that reads, 'You have new funds in your PayPal account' or 'invoice @clickbank.com'; messages from electronic payment processors that confirm you have been ma... Read >

Write At Least 1000 Words Every Day For A Week

Now why would anyone want to do that: write 1000 words every day for a week? Well you wouldn't if you are an established writer; you are already pumping out much more than that on an average day. But you might want to give it a try if you are just s... Read >