On the surface, 88 Money-Making Writing Jobs may look like an excellent reference for beginners, but if you’re the kind of writer who has been in one specialty far too long and are looking to branch out, you could get quite a bit of inspiration from this book.

One reviewer criticized the book for being potentially out-of-date practically the moment it hits the shelves, and while this may be true in many cases, Bly has set himself up here to issue yearly updates; could this be the start of an annual issue from Robert Bly? We can’t say for sure, but since this book came out earlier in 2009, we daresay it’s far from irrelevant.