FictionFairy tales are the oldest storytelling technology humans built, and their machinery, tight structure, archetypal characters, a moral spine, will sharpen your writing in any genre. Here are ten techniques for writing fairy tales that hold up on the surface…
Book MarketingGoodreads has millions of readers and a troll problem to match, full of fake reviews, extortion scams, and no real support when things go wrong. For most authors the abuse outweighs the exposure. Here is what actually goes wrong on…
Thought LeadershipThe books that held up on rereading, the ones that betrayed me, and what the difference between them says about what a book is doing when it works.
CybersecuritySecurity is mostly dull work nobody wants to do, patching, access reviews, backups, and it is also the entire job. Two decades in, the one time everything broke, it was backups that saved us, barely: a triple failure, snapped tapes,…
Book MarketingMost book promotion fails the same way. It starts at launch, it talks to everyone, and it asks for a sale before anyone knows who you are. What works instead, and what that costs in time and money.
CybersecurityAttackers rarely come through the firewall; if they do, you were sloppy, because the firewall is the easy part. The real vectors are social engineering and the insider, and the insider is the most common and most overlooked. Two decades…
CybersecurityI wrote a company's security policies against NIST CSF and 800-53, and now I ghostwrite books for the leaders who do this work. Most policy documents fail for two reasons: nobody knows who owns each step, and nobody knows which…
Artificial IntelligenceAdoption numbers, detection accuracy, reader response, publisher policy. What the research supports, what it does not support, and where the figures everyone quotes came from.
CybersecurityI ran PCI compliance at a national retailer for twenty years and passed every audit, then started ghostwriting books for the security leaders who live this work. Here is what nobody admits: passing an audit and being secure are not…
MemoirsDialogue that sounds like a police report has no life in it. A forceful bellydancer named Marjhani taught the lesson without ever reading a word.
GhostwritingA prospective client did the thing almost nobody does and rang the people I had worked with. What came back was not what either of us expected, and it was the most useful thing that happened that year.
GhostwritingA hundred plastic kits and fifty-four ghostwritten books turn out to have the same lesson in them, about sequence, about patience, and about the parts nobody will ever see once the thing is finished.
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