What's the story behind your latest book?
Over the years I've introduced a lot of successful products (some were not so successful too). I began to notice that the successful ones all had similar characteristics even though they were in widely differing fields. So that's what I put into HOW TO SELL YOUR IDEA. It covers a lot more than just what makes a product successful because that's the easy part. It also covers things a new inventor wouldn't know such as how to protect his idea, how to present it, how to write a contract, and how to get paid. That took me years to learn and I want to make that information available to others.
What motivated you to become an indie author?
I've written a number of books as you can see. They cover different topics. Regular publishers have a template that the author is supposed to fit into. That requires that all your books should be in the same area that your last book was in. HOW TO SELL YOUR IDEA is pretty well known, but then I wrote START SELLING SMART and it doesn't deal with patents or creativity at all. A regular publisher wants a consistent product and to them changing fields means the author as a "brand" has to be developed all over again. In short, to publishers', the author is simply a product and they don't want the author roaming around from field to field. Publishing what I like, when I like suits, me better. The reader can sample and determine if any of my works have value.
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