All about Apps for iPhones and iPads
Tom Evans is already well-known as an Author and as a source of information and help for other authors through his website The BookWright.
But he’s also an expert on creating Apps for iPads and iPhones and will be sharing his knowledge with Spiritus members and friends in a teleconference on Wednesday September 8th at 8pm UK, 3pm EST (US), 12 noon PST (US).
Some of the questions I’ll be asking Tom:
1. What makes a good app?
2. What’s the process for building one?
3. How do you go about promoting apps?
4. What’s the difference between an app and an iBook?
5. Will the iPhone and iPad get taken over by clones?
If you’ve got one you want to ask, and can’t be on the call, email me in advance.
For more about Apps, see these two articles by Tom:
Call details:
Call (001 outside US) 218 632 4816, code 774748.
The recording will be available to Spiritus members in the Business Information Call Library.
(Tom’s a fascinating man!
He’s a 21st century Renaissance man. He has been described as being something between a polymath and a jack of all trades and master of none.
Throughout his career he has been a serial entrepreneur always working at the leading edge of technology. He has been living and breathing Light Bulb Moments since he was a child.
When not writing his own books, he mentors other authors and creatives on how to banish writer’s block and tap into their Creative Muse. He also acts as a catalyst, visionary and a seer [see-er] for businesses looking for new ideas and strategies.
As a boy, he was fascinated by the magic of TV and radio and used to take them apart to find out how they worked. Sometimes, to his parents’ chagrin, he had a few bits left of over. After taking a degree in Electronics, he embarked on a career as a broadcast engineer with the BBC. By the time he was 25, he was working with Sony Broadcast and recognised as one of Europe’s leading experts on camera and imaging technology .By the time he was 30, he had his own company manufacturing innovative widgets to broadcasters worldwide. He’d also received two Royal Television Society awards for his inventions and had several patents to his name.
In the 90′s, when the Internet came along, Tom built a new business providing innovative ecommerce and epublishing solutions for dot.com startups and established corporates.
Like many authors, he ended up being one sort of by accident. Like many people in his mid-forties, he paused for breath, took a holiday after giving up a perfectly good job without another to go to. On holiday, he wrote some poetry, made into an ebook and to his surprise people started downloading it – and paying for it. He had become an unexpected author – and got the bug.
A year later, the 100 Years of Ermintrude became a trilogy of interlocking stories and ended up in print. Somewhere along the way the downloads also raised loads of money for Walk the Walk breast cancer charity and Tom ended up walking round London in a bra for 26 miles. Now that same book has just been published on as an iPhone app. As an irrepressible technophile, Tom has also developed many iPhone and iPad applications.
The process of writing of this book by accident fascinated Tom and he started to research the true nature of thought, where ideas actually come from and what stops them in their tracks.
He has become a student of both the esoteric and exoteric and switched his personal research direction from technology to the magic of the human mind.
He has now trained as a hypnotherapist and specialises in past life regression and future life progression techniques. He is able to see all possible futures and helps clients manifest the ideal one for them – at the same time clearing past accumulations of karmic issues.
He is also a Master Trainer for Tony Buzan’s Mind Mapping software and teaches both Whole Brain and Whole Mind Thinking.
He started working with other authors on a one-to-one basis three years ago and he has helped many authors get in print. He has also delivered many creative writing and ideas generation workshops.
His second book, simply called Blocks, shows the enlightened way to clear writer’s block and how to connect with unlimited creativity. Removing blocks of course is a natural precursor to having unlimited light bulb moments on demand.
Later this year he has two new books being published. The first by O-Books called the Art and Science of Light Bulb Moments. The second will be self published and simultaneously published on the iPhone called The Flavours of Thought: Recipes for New Thinking.
His writing project for 2011 is to finally deliver the novel he started four years ago. You can download a free sample for the iPhone – just search for Soulwave in the App Store.
He lives in the Surrey Hills with his life partner and two Labradors who are the best friends any writer could wish for.)
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Posted by spiritus on September 2nd, 2010 filed in Business
