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Brian Jackson

Writer, Publisher and Educator

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6,166 reviews
26 Courses

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Brian Jackson Courses

Writing a Book: Creative Writing Skills for Self-publishing

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Unofficial Udemy Student Guide: Courses Free or Dirt Cheap

$19.99

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Clip Studio Paint Pro/Ex: Digital Art, Drawing and Painting

$19.99

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GIMP Complete: GIMP Graphic Design, Book Covers and Drawing

$19.99

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Writing a Book: ChatGPT AI + Self-publishing: KDP/ChatGPT AI

$19.99

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Goal Setting, Trello To-Do Lists and Excel Decision Analysis

$19.99

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Moho Pro Illustration, Character Rigging and 2D Animation

$19.99

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Self-publishing: Amazon KDP Self-publishing: Book Publishing

$19.99

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CreateStudio 2D Animation: Promotion/Marketing: CreateStudio

$19.99

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Microsoft PowerPoint: Presentations, Book Covers, Animation

$19.99

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MailChimp Free Mailing Lists: MailChimp Free Email Marketing

$199.99

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GIMP for Beginners: Free Book Covers with Free Images

$19.99

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Unofficial Udemy, Camtasia and PowerPoint Course Creation

$199.99

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KDSPY SEO: Amazon Self-publishing/Self-publish w/KDSPY SEO

$19.99

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Trello Project Management: Shared Online Trello To-Do Lists

$19.99

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Self-publishing: Free Amazon Kindle eBook Self-publishing

$199.99

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Writing and Editing: Proofreading and Copy Editing Mastery

$199.99

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Self-publishing Children's Books: Self-publish w/PowerPoint

$19.99

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Beginner Wordpress Website Design and Wordpress Development

$199.99

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Self-publishing Amazon Print on Demand (POD) Paperback Books

$199.99

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Microsoft PowerPoint: Free Book Covers for Self-publishing

$19.99

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GIMP Digital Drawing: Free GIMP with a Budget Tablet

$199.99

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Moho Intro: 2D Illustration, Rigging and Animation with Moho

$199.99

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Microsoft Excel: Excel Data Analysis: Excel for Beginners

$19.99

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Blues Guitar Chords, Blues Rhythm and Lead, Blues Guitar Tab

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Manage Information: Windows 10 File Explorer & Google Search

$19.99

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Most Recent Review

Well course is good and really amazing to get down to all the basics. Right now i am looking for advance techniques and things like 360 view, multi switch layers within inside folder and anime style art and effects also bone structuring for detailed facial and eyes expressions. Which i think i need to refer to something else for it.
- Review by Rohan Yadav on Moho Pro Illustration, Character Rigging and 2D Animation

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Instructor Bio

Hello,

My name is Brian Jackson. I'm the author of about a dozen books, the publisher of well over 100 books, and a Udemy instructor with over 40 courses.

This is my story...

1 Origins

I was born in the middle of the last century in Los Angeles, California. I graduated from Humboldt State University, surrounded by the redwoods of Northern California. After 14 years at Lockheed Missiles and Space as an IBM system programmer and 12 years at Cisco Systems as a test engineer, I retired at 48.

I instantly became bored.

2 Community College

To break the boredom, I enrolled at Columbia Community College to take writing, art, acting and statistics classes. I took 24 units over one year and received straight “A”s.

I was still bored.

3 Writing and Self-publishing

I began writing fiction and nonfiction books and self-publishing them on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Smashwords in July 2011. Though I wrote and published several books, my self-publishing business didn’t take off until my wife joined me.

4 My Wife and Author, Melanie Jackson

Melanie Jackson, my wife, was an author publishing over two romance novels per year through her New York publisher, Dorchester Press. After publishing 24 novels with Dorchester, the company folded, and Melanie was without a publisher (she wanted to write cozy mysteries anyway).

I convinced Melanie to join me in self-publishing cozy mysteries on Amazon.

5 The Self-publishing Years

For the last fourteen years, from July 2010 to now (6/22/2024), my wife and I have written and self-published cozy mysteries. At first, we continued to self-publish on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Smashwords, but eventually chose to self-publish exclusively on Amazon. To date, I've self-published well over 100 of my wife’s books on Amazon.

6 My Wife and I

When I say “my wife and I,” I mean that my wife did the writing, and I helped with the brainstorming, did half the editing, created the book covers, and self-published and marketed my wife’s books. So, my wife had it pretty good while I honed my writing, self-publishing and marketing skills.

After about five years of self-publishing a book every two months, Melanie and I burned out and slowed way, waaayyy, doowwwnnn…

7 Udemy

I began publishing courses on Udemy, Skillshare and multiple other sites in July 2014, focusing on writing, self-publishing and book covers. Within ten weeks, I had published my first 10 Udemy courses.

I currently live in Las Vegas, Nevada, with my lovely wife and author, Melanie Jackson, and Butterscotch the cat.

I'll see you in the classroom,

---Brian
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Most reviewed course Writing a Book: Creative Writing Skills for Self-publishing 4.4 · 2,120 reviews · $14.99
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