About The Author
Michael G. Colburn has studied and written about the creative process for several decades. He started several
businesses and one manufacturing company based on creation and invention. He served on industry associations and
was treasurer and then Food Service Consultants Society International president. He has authored over twenty
patents. His books include the bestselling Invent, Innovate & Prosper, and How Julia Found Happiness and
Financial Success. He now devotes his time to writing fiction. His first novel, Stolen Brilliance: A Lady Black
Mystery, will be released in April 2024. He lives with his wife in Vermont. When he is not writing, they like to
travel and take long-distance walking trips, exploring paths and cultures around the world. Pictures of their paths
accompany his monthly blog, A Writers Odyssey, published on Medium and posted on Facebook, Instagram, and
LinkedIn.
Publications
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Lady Edie Black harbors a secret past as a master criminal in this tale of love, crime, and adventure, with a jaw-dropping twist that will leave you stunned.
Rescued from the slums of Victorian London, Edie finds herself ensnared in a web of crime orchestrated by Mrs. Hill, the mastermind behind the Forty Elephants, an infamous gang of lady thieves. While perfecting her deception skills, Edie falls deeply in love with Benji, the man who once saved her.
Under Mrs. Hill’s direction, she embarks on a daring heist of the Steamship Ferret. Soon, Edie finds herself navigating crime and adventure in far-flung locations from France and South Africa to Brazil to Australia.
When a massive diamond heist occurs in Cape Town, Benji is implicated as the thief. He is pursued by Lloyds of London investigators, corporate interests, rival gangs, and Mrs. Hill. As secrets unravel and alliances shift, Edie must save Benji’s life and her own by seeking the true perpetrators.
Inspired by actual events, Stolen Brilliance is a historical mystery that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the final page. Join Edie Black on a journey of deceit, danger, and love as she fights to carve out her place in a world where nothing is as it seems.
HOW JULIA FOUND HAPPINESS AND FINANCIAL SUCCESS
The practical financial principals can help you make money and create powerful success habits for your business.
How Julia Found Happiness and Financial SuccessYou don’t need to be lucky, or a genius, to create a successful invention. You just need a clear process to spark ideas and bring them to market.Julia’s life as a successful product designer is interrupted in an instant when she is suddenly widowed. Devastated she abandons her career and escapes to France to heal. She returns to start her own service business but realizes she does not know how to turn talent into financial success. She is coached by a friend who leads her to develop new financial strategies and habits.
Julia is guided through a series of key financial principles about managing employees, time and services that take her business from financial starvation to thriving success. What she learns can be your guide to making money in your service-oriented business. This is a work of fiction with a lot of real-life lessons on succeeding financially in a time-based service business.
INVENT, INNOVATE & PROSPER
You don’t need to be lucky, or a genius, to create a successful invention. You just need a clear process to spark ideas and bring them to market.
Michael G. Colburn is an inventor. He wasn’t always, but he made himself into one. He’s spent the last four decades building multi-million dollar businesses around his inventions, and in that time, he’s realized a powerful truth: Inventing is a skill anyone can master.
Michael’s success was not an accident. With every invention, he followed a clear process for finding an idea, researching, testing, and bringing it to market. Along the way, Michael studied history’s great creators and realized their processes were not very different from his. Artists, writers, inventors, entrepreneurs—they all follow a similar method for bringing ideas to life. We just so rarely get to see it.
Invent, Innovate, and Prosper is a practical handbook for inventing based on Michael’s decades of work as a successful inventor. He shares his step-by-step system for launching profitable inventions, along with the surprising real-life lessons that helped him thrive. You’ll learn how to:
- Adopt a detective’s mindset to find invention ideas in everyday life
- Research your idea’s viability and troubleshoot glitches
- Design, engineer, and build prototypes with minimal financial investment
- Prepare and test your products for the market
- Navigate logistics like funding, patents, contracts, and distribution
Michael also profiles some of the world’s most prolific inventors, from Alexander Graham Bell to Lori Greiner, and offers legal templates to get you started. Whether you’re already a maker or are just starting to brainstorm new products, you’ll discover how to turn the kernel of an idea into a lucrative invention.
Check out the below audio clip featuring INVENT, INNOVATE & PROSPER’s Introduction and First Chapter:
THE CREATOR'S NOTEBOOK
Checklists, Exercises, Illustrations, and Other Aids to Guide Your Creative Process.
With every new creation, Michael has followed a clear process for finding ideas, researching them, testing them, and bringing them to market. In his book Invent, Innovate & Prosper, he explains his system for creating profitable inventions and businesses and shares the surprising real-life lessons that have helped him thrive.
Now, in The Creator’s Notebook, Michael offers even more hands-on advice, examples, and exercises to help you turn the kernel of an idea into a lucrative creation:
- Worksheets for goal setting, generating ideas, and mind mapping
- Best practices and sources for researching your idea’s viability and troubleshooting glitches
- Step-by-step instructions for designing, engineering, and building prototypes with minimal financial investment
- Checklists, forms, and other resources to help you stay organized and on track throughout the creation process
The Creator’s Notebook is a guide and a workbook that is useful on its own, or—to reach your full creation potential—you can use it alongside Invent, Innovate & Prosper on your journey to bringing your creative ideas into the world.
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NEW PROFESSIONAL REVIEW: STOLEN BRILLIANCE
Synopsis; Rescued from the slums of Victorian London, Edie finds herself ensnared in a web of crime orchestrated by Mrs. Hill, the mastermind behind an infamous gang of lady thieves. While perfecting her skills at deception, Edie falls deeply in love with Benji, a criminal who saved her from a troubled
Between the Lines — A Writer’s Odyssey 7
June has been a whirlwind in my publishing world. The meticulous preparation of a book for publishing has proven to be a formidable task, far surpassing the challenges of writing itself, at least in my experience. I’ve learned about ARCs (advance reader copies) and the importance of getting reviews and putting
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