Brian Morgan

Brian Morgan is a former business leader, and a national award-winning journalist, editor, publisher and author. He lives with his wife, Judy, and grandson, Thomas, on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia, after living most of their lifetime in Sydney.

He has always declared his family to be his first and foremost interest, and has two children (with partners) and five grandchildren.

Brian received a private school education through high school before a range of tertiary studies. He has served as a teacher at TAFE colleges, teaching writing, publishing and related subjects. He has also been a small business seminar leader, and conducted workshops for and lectured to groups like the Fellowship of Australian Writers.

Brian was the founder of a number of businesses and institutions set up for charitable, educational and business purposes. He has had several successful careers, and has now embarked on another, as co-founder and Director of the PiPS Institute (Professional Independent Publishing Standards), established in 2015.

His first career was in business, where he chalked up a number of major achievements in national and multi-national companies. For example, he worked government ministers and industry leaders to initiate reform and restructure of the credit union movement in Australia, and helped a major multi-national business restructure its operations and take over a company that was bigger than itself.

As an employee or as a consultant, he has experience in many industries, including insurance, finance and banking, manufacturing, distribution, computer industry, printing, publishing, pastoral interests, advertising and marketing, service industries and the retail sector. He has considerable experience and expertise in event organisation and management.

His particular interest, however, has been small business and he set up a number of ventures over the years for himself and others. He founded businesses in many areas, including printing, publishing, event organization, marketing and consulting.

He also founded the Australian Institute for the Self-Employed to educate and train the self-employed and small business people through his writings. He wrote a Small Business Course that was studied by many business people around Australia.

However, writing was his first love and he gave up that successful career in business to learn the writing craft through journalism. His rise was rapid. He worked as journalist, sub-editor, editor, editor-in-chief, managing editor and general manager on a range of mastheads in the Fairfax and Courier newspaper groups, winning numerous state and national awards in the process.

He also worked as CEO and publisher on one regional and five national magazines and has served as contributing editor on an Australian literary journal. Three of his five magazines were national business magazines in Australia.

His writing has been highly acclaimed and translated for Vietnamese, Chinese and Japanese audiences. He wrote a paper for the Australian Press Council Prize based on his experiences in journalism.

A literary agent in Chicago, Jane Jordan Browne, managed to present only one of Brian’s projects, The Legend of the Christmas Prayer, to publishers before her sad and untimely death. The Legend became a sell-out best-seller in America and Great Britain and was translated into Japanese, where it was also successful.

Despite this success, Brian has turned away from traditional publishing in favour of independent publishing and now has a range of books available on Smashwords and in other online stores.

Brian Morgan has also served his local community and business in a range of capacities, and past affiliations include: Associate of Australian Society of Accountants; Member of Institute of Affiliate Accountants; Member Accountants’ Professional Information Panel; Member Australian Institute of Management; Founder Australian Institute for the Self-Employed; Member Media and Entertainment and Arts Alliance and House Committee Chairman; Patron and life member of community organizations.

Website: http://www.brianmorganbooks.com

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• 6692 Pisces the Sailfish on Oct. 09, 2012
  
  The first thing I have to say about this author is that he is a real storyteller. In fact, 6692 Pisces the Sailfish, which turns out to be the first memoir by Don Darkes, is a series of stories that will keep you turning pages long after you should be asleep. I believe I can promise you have not read stories like these. Pisces is a series of true stories in the author's life, yes, but it is also a series of disasters. Real disasters. This man should not be alive to tell the tale today. Yet, he says, disaster was the best thing that ever happened to him. He lost every material thing he owned, but discovered that the only true possession of real value is love and family. What really intrigued was the fact that Don Darkes had a poisonous secret trapped inside him that was only released when someone he hated, someone that he had tried to murder, died. For 20 years, this story was bottled up inside him before he could write about it. What could cause such hatred? I wondered. Well, I found out, but I'm not going to ruin the story for you. I'll just say that Don and his family set sail in a cursed yacht on the adventure of a lifetime and the events that followed would not be believed if you read about them in fiction. But truth is stranger than fiction, is it not? I have to say that the book could do with a bit more editing and it contains plenty of adult content. And some of the graphic detail was a bit too much for such a sensitive soul as my goodself (says he with tongue in cheek). However, I also know that the book will absorb you and leave you thinking about it long after you've finished reading. There are some serious themes here, though often relieved by humour and attitude. It's the true story of how one family overcame tremendous odds to survive together and bounce back looking for more adventure. If you like daring adventure, if you like the idea of an incredible fight for survival, if you like the outcome of a family welded together forever, then I certainly recommend this book for you. Five stars for honesty in storytelling.