Behind the BookSeptember 1, 2026
Verne wrote political manifestos with a plot wrapped around them. The situation is strong and there is nobody inside it, so this version hands the narration to the harpooner who wants off the ship.
BusinessSeptember 1, 2026
Every transformation vendor sells alignment, and alignment is not for sale. I ran a company off paper and onto computers with hundreds of people across every department wanting different things, and no version of that project existed where everyone was…
Book MarketingSeptember 1, 2026
Somewhere out there is a version of your professional history you did not write, and when a machine assembles an answer about you it reads all of them and picks.
GhostwritingSeptember 1, 2026
You will hate one chapter for no good reason. Somebody else will know your career better than you do. The hardest week is the one after the manuscript is finished.
Behind the BookSeptember 1, 2026
Wells wrote a class allegory dressed in science fiction and sent his Time Traveller forward alone, which makes the middle of the book pure narration. This version puts somebody in the seat beside him.
BusinessSeptember 1, 2026
If your team has been stuck on the same problem for more than a few days, the fastest fix is usually to delete the work and start over, and almost nobody does it. I lost weeks to a bug that…
BusinessSeptember 1, 2026
An agency posted its production schedule: sixteen weeks, contract to finished book, broken out week by week. It answers three questions the sales call never gets to, and every one of them matters more than the total.
GhostwritingSeptember 1, 2026
Some books I turn down in the first conversation. The revenge memoir has a sound: I am a victim, I am a victim, I am a victim. It fails on the page and in court, and sometimes a better book…
BusinessSeptember 1, 2026
A coach hired me to write the book he could hand people who asked what his coaching was about. The goal shaped the writing, then the cover, then the promotion. A book with a job gets done well.
BusinessSeptember 1, 2026
Before you buy AI-branded anomaly detection, ask the vendor one question: what does it compute? If the answer is a baseline and a deviation from that baseline, you are buying a method that has worked since long before anyone put…
Behind the BookSeptember 1, 2026
The Sphere began with one rule: no faster than light travel. Remove that and humanity cannot leave, which means the only remaining direction is inward. The subject is a forty thousand year construction project, which contains no action at all,…
Behind the BookSeptember 1, 2026
I was diagnosed AuADHD at sixty-four, and the diagnosis is the reason this book exists. One of the answers it supplied was that the traits my family spent nineteen years trying to suppress were the traits keeping me alive in…
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