GhostwritingSeptember 1, 2026
Steve Levinson spent a decade auditing the systems I ran at Trader Joe's, then endorsed Family Cybersecurity. That is what earned expertise looks like on a page, and why a technical book needs a writer who was in the room.
Behind the BookSeptember 1, 2026
A realistic novel about a kid harassed online has been written a thousand times and no seven-year-old finishes one. So Jake goes inside the internet, where trolls have caves and algorithms have addresses, and the villain is a machine that…
BusinessSeptember 1, 2026
The most valuable product the firm I worked for ever sold started as two people fixing something on the side because a machine was slow and it bothered them. Nobody asked for it, nobody funded it, and nobody could have…
BusinessSeptember 1, 2026
Halfway through an interview session I stop and ask a question that has nothing to do with the chapter: are we still meeting the goal? That break is the difference between a ghostwriter and a manuscript vendor.
BusinessSeptember 1, 2026
Books die three ways, and none of them involves the draft. The client goes silent. The finished manuscript never comes out. The book publishes and nothing happens. All three were decided in the first conversation.
BusinessSeptember 1, 2026
The best hire I made in thirty-three years produced no story. The resume was accurate, the interview matched it, the background matched the interview, and the work matched all three.
Behind the BookSeptember 1, 2026
This collection is reconnaissance. I intend to write a novel in every genre, and forty short stories across forty genres was a way of dipping a toe in each one before committing a year to any of them.
BusinessSeptember 1, 2026
For 33 years I worked in enterprise technology, twenty of them running IT at Trader Joe's. Then I wrote 113+ books. Nobody predicts that line, and the pivot is the story. A crooked career is the book.
Behind the BookSeptember 1, 2026
My father died with a one-bedroom apartment filled floor to ceiling and two full storage units, while being broke. I was three thousand miles away, so I told the apartment manager to donate all of it. Nobody objected, and nobody…
Behind the BookSeptember 1, 2026
Jules Verne gave Tom Ayrton about thirty pages and never went inside him. Twelve years alone on Tabor Island, marooned as punishment, rescued and reformed and killed off as machinery for somebody else’s adventure. This is his account.
GhostwritingSeptember 1, 2026
A consultant asked me for a book he could hand people. Not an argument, a credential. He got it, and nobody read it, and it did nothing for him.
BusinessSeptember 1, 2026
The best job I ever had came from doing unglamorous maintenance work well for somebody who was watching without either of us thinking about it. No application, no resume, no search.
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