Book Concept Innovator Pillows

"That's the beauty of it — it's a memoir and a children's book!"

Ed Flanders, Deconstruction Worker

The Map of the human brain

"Hmmm ... that's interesting. Now, what about ideas that don't suck - do you have any of those?"

"You're a genius, Shaw. This is an idea whose copyright has expired."

"Ideas that jump from noggin when head not yet screwed on."

A secretary at a desk with a nameplate the says Dot Com.

Blue sky thinking

GPC needs to make its new formula foolproof.

'She posted her first blog today.'

"So start throwing together about 10 novels a week and bring them in on Wednesdays."

'Frankly, I'm not sure this whole idea-sharing thing is working.'

Lateral Thinking - Not Out & Not In trays.

"I'm really great thanks. The boss loves my ideas, he says I'm ahead of my time!" "Hi John, how are you? Good meeting?"

"If he doesn't go nuts first, he'll be the first person to ever write a novel on a cell phone."

'Have your people facebook my people.'

Suggestion and 'outside-the-box' suggestions.

"In the marketplace of ideas, we may not have the best ideas, but we have the best marketing."

'This is a 'million dollar idea', Simms, unfortunately, our debt is two million dollars.'

'Hey! I've just had a great idea! How about a light bulb...?'

Whoa, easy on the details, brother! This may be shrunk down for an e-book someday.

'I hate these cliche situations!'

'Unfortunately, our entirely Twitter and Facebook based business model was a little ahead of its time!'

This is called "The Ballad of a Self-Taught Guitarist."

Egyptology Books form Pyramid

A man stealing another person's ideas

The Big Idea vs The Small Change

'Quit if you want, Bowman, but the intellectual property stays here.'

'That's interesting Larry, but most people just use a flipchart to express their ideas.'

'Gotta hang up now. My mom wants to recycle the phone.'

"Let's all go out & get drunk."

"It's the new business model - my ideas have sex with your ideas."

"That's out idea department – the door was one of their ideas."

'If I don't think inside the box... why should I think outside the box?'

Man reading in lamp