CNY author offers behind-the-scenes look at outstanding literary success; explains method behind achieving #822,136- and 1,023,499-best ranked status on Amazon

 SYRACUSE – Despite its charming four-seasons allure, highly affordable cost of living, and outstanding school districts, this Central New York gem isn’t exactly a ground-zero target for literary plaudits. Victor Hugo never set foot here. Dante Alighieri is as much a stranger to it as Marvin Martian. Proust, Goethe, Milton, Shakespeare – none of the plots or characters in their glorious array of story indicate any knowledge of the Salt City. To help remedy this alarming condition, CNY #822,136- and #1,023,499- ranked best-selling author Joel Redmond has decided to share with the Tradecraft blog some of his deepest literary secrets.

“The first trick is not to get weighed down too seriously with nonessentials like plot, character, setting, and theme,” Redmond said. “Basically, I get a burrito, start the stopwatch on my cell phone, and write like Jackson Pollack paints for twenty minutes.” When pressed as to the source of his muse, Redmond sank into a reverie. “I remember hearing this great quote by Woody Allen,” he said. “He said something like ‘I’m all for speed-reading, I get a lot out of it. I speed-read War and Peace, for example, and I can tell you from that it definitely had something to do with Russia.’ It takes guts to read like that, and that’s why I try to write like that,” Redmond said.

Other tips? “I try to always write so I’m almost lying down,” Redmond said. “If you’re too tense, you might say something that will offend someone, and one of your characters might do something interesting,” he said. “I try to make sure all my work reads like a brokerage research report from an analyst who is very, very uncertain of his situation,” Redmond said. “I often nod off in the middle of writing a particularly inspiring passage, and it’s any writer’s hope that his readers experience the same things he does,” Redmond said. “And if there’s nothing good on TV that night, that doesn’t hurt, either.”

Redmond saw overnight success with his April 2011 release of The One-Minute Financial Planner, released by Xlibris; the book sold 7 copies worldwide its first week alone. In December 2013, Unlimited Publishing released the critically-acclaimed-by-Mr. Redmond follow-up work Tradecraft: What Spymasters Can Teach us About Investing, which has already sold three copies a mere month into its publication. The final secret to his success? Giving away something for nothing. “I’m posting the original version of Tradecraft online in a weblog called The Bricklebrit Algorithm,” Redmond said. “It’s basically my way of becoming a TV finance personality without calling all my readers ‘girlfriend’ or hitting a ‘buy’ or ‘sell’ button that sounds like an air raid siren.” And the value to readers? “They’ll find lots of math formulas and to-dos to get wealthy that they can read about and never do, because they're presumably only fluent in English,” Redmond said. “But if they do get wealthy somehow by accidentally implementing some of the advice in there, I can’t be held responsible,” Redmond said. “I have to go now, though. Stopwatch says 24:16,” he said.

Tradecraft can be found here: www.unlimitedpublishing.com/redmond.

The blog is found at http://www.tumblr.com/blog/thebricklebritalgorithm.

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