Matt Green

I am a forty something father of five and an as yet unpublished author with my first novel ready to go. I am an experienced 'hands on' business manager with a track record of success servicing clients throughout Australia and New Zealand in the publishing, media and printing industries. I have a Bachelor of Commerce degree majoring in Management and Legal Studies, with skills in Marketing, Economics and Accounting. My business acumen has enabled me to manage companies through depression, succession, recession and progression. My love of creative writing was forged in high school but accelerated in my twenties. I spent four years at the TAFE College in Ultimo studying Copy Writing, Copy Editing and Proof Reading, amongst other things. During my free time from furthering my education and raising a family I was an avid songwriter penning the poetry for children’s music as well as adult contemporary. Unfortunately my guitar playing ability was somewhat less than average so many of my rhymes lacked the rhythm required for commercial release. In my thirties I began developing story lines that I hoped to turn into quality works of fiction. I presently have a few more ‘work in progress’ novels and the beginning of a screenplay gathering dust on my hard drive. For my business I have written case studies and press releases as well as a monthly newsletter with technical information and marketing spiel. All these documents are published via our website and some have been picked up by industry trade journals and reprinted. My personal blog site is http://matthewgreen.com.au/ and I can be contacted via email: mattvgreen@gmail.com

Homepage: http://matthewvgreen.wordpress.com

iDad 007 – Mini Me Meets One Little Girl

Mini Me I have mentioned previously about God Sakes love for all things miniature and his unfortunate inclination to eat said tiny toys. Well Granny also had a predilection for the pint sized. To him, every itty-bitty item was somebody’s baby and, like his brothers before him, his favourite were prehistoric monsters. Plastic dinosaurs (or [...]

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No Home For Old Folks.

Early this morning I wandered through an old, deserted warehouse watching the dusty cobwebs drift lazily on an invisible zephyr. My three hundredth sneeze echoed in the empty silence and rattled the mercury vapour lamps hanging from the ceiling like grimy grey stalactites. I rubbed itchy eyes with the knuckle of my right index finger [...]

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Rain Dancing with Sir Joseph Banks

Tuesday 22nd November – Evening – Botany / Banksmeadow Area The incessant yet gentle precipitation had left me feeling mildly depressed. My Monday morning jog had been washed out and the Tuesday morning raincheck was, well, rainchecked again. On top of that the exercise bike was broken, which tends to happen when you plug the [...]

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Free Hugs!

Go on, give him a little cuddle. You know you want to

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Gen Y – an iDad Perspective

What is Generation Y? The simple definition of the generations is as follows: 1901 – 1924: The Greatest Generation aka The Veterans. These guys were born during the Great War, grew up through the Great Depression and fought in World War 2. They were fed on food stamps, handouts and the grapes of wrath. If [...]

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What Are You Gonna Do Now?

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R U OK?

Today is R U OK? Day. It’s a national day of action which aims to prevent suicide by encouraging Australians to connect with someone they care about and help stop little problems turning into big ones. “In the time it takes to have your coffee, you can start a conversation that could change a life. [...]

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iDad Part Six – More Cake

St Andrew’s Growing up with No.1, God Sakes and Granny was as entertaining as it was educational and iDad’s influence over his children was profound. As a fledgling golfer I was forever talking to my boys about the three or four good shots I made out of the one hundred and thirty it took me [...]

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Give iDad an iPad for Fathers Day

Last December I contacted Molly, my friend from the Net, who has a very interesting craft blog called Charlotte’s Fancy. Molly had designed a greeting card for Fathers Day called the iDad. With her kind permission, and Fathers day just around the corner, I have reproduced the steps to create the iDad greeting card below [...]

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Interesting Trivia?!

Mum sent me this so it has to be true – right? Here are some facts about the 1500s: They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot & then once a day it was taken & sold to the tannery…….if you had to do this [...]

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