Monday, January 16, 2006

The Day I Shook Hands with Betty Grable

There’s a line in a famous 1970s pop song composed and recorded by Neil Sedaka that goes something like, ‘I never met you Betty Grable…’

Well, unlike Neil Sedaka, I did, several times over, and on the first occasion I got to shake hands with the 1940s icon which was an enormous thrill for a long time fan.

So, what’s shaking hands with Betty Grable got to do with writing?

Just this: I got to thinking about that momentous first meeting the other evening and it galvanized my brain into sketching out an outline for a new book, something I should have done years ago; something that’s been languishing in my subconscious for eons.

You see, I met many famous people when I travelled the world as a publicist from the late 1950s to the early 1980s. Apart from the delightful Betty G there were chance encounters with Rory Calhoun (Betty’s partner at the time), Frank Sinatra, George Raft, Stan Kenton, Dolores Del Rio, Fess Parker (Davy Crockett), Dusty Springfield, Cilla Black, Mike Sarne, and dozens more.

Oh yeah, (can I hear you say?) anyone could make a claim like that.

That’s true, anyone could, but could they also provide photographic evidence of each and every meeting; like pictures of the luminaries and me together?

That is the essential difference; I can…

So, considering that the majority of these famous people are now either dead or forgotten, will I get my book published by a traditional house?

Yes, I will.

Will it make me a lot of money?

No.

What it will do though is provide me with a sense of fulfilment and at the same time knock out sales of a few thousand copies in the nostalgia niche.

The secret lies in stringing together a chain of offbeat events with a similar pattern - and it occurs in everyone’s life.

Could you come up with such a pattern from your own lifetime experiences?

Think about it – there could be a book in it.

Jim Green is a bestselling author with an ever-growing string of niche non-fiction titles to his credit. View his output at http://1st-creative-writing-course.com

Sunday, January 08, 2006

The Book That Opened My Eyes To Making Money

In the days leading up to Christmas 2005 I finished reading a remarkable (yet unheralded) little book that opened my eyes to what making money is really all about.

And its content is not what you might think.

It contains no highfalutin strategies, no mesmerizing theory, no razzmatazz; just plain common sense in small but effective doses.

I picked up the tome out of interest, not specifically to learn how to make money, but I must confess that even this early its innate wisdom is starting to take root in my mind and I find myself being directed to develop additional streams of incremental income from what I already do to make money.

What this little book did for me was to ask questions that forced me to think outside the box and challenge limiting beliefs; replacing them with new, empowering thought patterns that will help me chase prosperity in directions with which I am already familiar.

The book captivated me from the very start because is it practical, inspiring and motivating.

It makes me realize that making money is not such a hard job at all and it demonstrates that no matter what you are doing or where you are, you can always find ways to make money.

In essence, this little book focuses on developing the correct mindset regarding money.

Okay, so there is no earth-shattering revelation in that premise because we all know that successful wealthy people are those who have a strong wealth psychology to attract more money in their life.

However, go about matters in the wrong way and all you manage to achieve is shooting yourself in the foot and sabotaging your dreams.

I’m glad I found this little book, I’m glad I read it, and now I intend to pursue the insights it has provided me on the prospects of enhancing my financial standing.

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Monday, January 02, 2006

The Timeless Secret to Creating Bestselling Niche Non-Fiction

It is quite an achievement when a niche non-fiction book remains consistently at the top of the bestseller lists for a period spanning six months; an achievement that is all the more difficult to fathom when you consider that the subject matter has nothing to do with sex, drugs, rock and roll or the like; subject matter that might even be regarded as mundane in the extreme.

What is the secret?

1. What drives a book with a commonplace topic to the top of the lists and keeps it there for months on end?

2. What causes it to attract mass appeal within its prescribed niche?

It must be best of its kind but even that is not enough to create a No. 1 bestseller that stays the course.

You need more, much more, and it comes in the shape of a timeless but little-known secret of which 99.9 percent of writers are completely unaware.

Only a handful of established authors use it, either consciously or subconsciously.

And yet this timeless secret is freely available to every writer, every would-be published author, if only they knew how to access it.

It is simplicity personified, it is perceived wisdom handed down through the ages to a fortunate few; it is the concealed catalyst that creates bestsellers.

Let me give you an example of its incredible power…

The book to which I specifically refer in the opening paragraph is one of my own, a book that clearly identifies with a traditional, rapidly growing global mass market – but a market that is already on the brink of saturation.

“Your Retirement Masterplan” (How To Books ISBN 1857039874) was first published in October 2004, reached the No.1 spot out of 3326 competitive titles on Amazon.co.uk within days, dipped in time to No.3, then hovered in the top ten for the next six months.

Thereafter it reclaimed the No.1 spot and has retained it consistently ever since.

This incredible staying power persuaded the published to forge ahead on a 2nd upgraded, cosmetically enhanced edition which will hit bookstores world wide in February 2006.

That will sustain the momentum but only temporarily because it will be broken when my latest book “How To Earn Money In Retirement” (How To Books ISBN 1845281128) is released in April 2006 and knocks its predecessor off the No.1 spot for the keyword ‘retirement’ on Amazon.co.uk.

I tell you this not to impress but to provide positive proof of the remarkable influence of the little-known secret that creates bestselling books; an influence that spills over from topping bestselling lists online to generating massive sales offline in bookstores all over the world.

Have you guessed what the secret is?

I doubt you have guessed right but when you do discover it you will know what you must do FIRST to create a guaranteed bestseller BEFORE you write a single word…

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