Ghostwriting a Book About AI Without It Going Stale
Writing a book about AI is different from using AI to write a book. The craft is separating the durable from the disposable as the field moves.
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Artificial IntelligenceThe Web Used to Be Ours
The old web was better, or it was always chaos, both takes miss the point. The early web was built by individuals, and discovery ran on human curiosity instead of corporate budgets. Then money took over: SEO buried the little…
Behind the BookEthics Is the Voice That Says Maybe I Should Not Take Credit for This
Ethics at work is not the big dilemma. It is the small voice you can overrule without anybody ever finding out, which is exactly why it matters.
PublishingDogpile
Two authors asked ordinary questions in writing groups. One wanted a vote on three cover mockups, the other wanted honest readers for a book he had just published. Neither did anything wrong, and both got a stoning. A pile-on has…
GhostwritingGhostwriting Children’s Books: Tiny Word Count, Enormous Craft
Ghostwriting children's books is deceptively hard. The word count is tiny and the craft is enormous, because every word carries weight.
Artificial IntelligenceAI Does Not Know You, and That Is the Whole Problem
A model knows what people in your field generally say. That is the one thing your book must not be.
GhostwritingGhostwriting a Cloud Services Book in the Multicloud Age
Cloud stopped being a destination and became the default. A cloud services book that still explains why to move to the cloud is answering a dead question.
Behind the BookThree Posts a Week and Six Comments a Day. That Is the Whole System.
People expect a system. Three posts a week, six comments a day, keep them short. The difficulty was never the complexity.
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GhostwritingGhostwriting Self-Help Books: Turning Wisdom Into a Usable Method
Ghostwriting a self-help book means turning a person's hard-won wisdom into a system a reader can truly use, in a voice readers trust.
Thought LeadershipThe Year the Mirror Cracked
Hold two facts together. Audiences rewarded films that looked like the actual country, and the industry made fewer of them. The UCLA Hollywood Diversity Report is the closest thing American film has to an honest mirror, and in 2025 it…
GhostwritingWho Decides Which Stories Get Made? What Hollywood’s 2026 Diversity Numbers Tell Every Author
UCLA's 2026 Hollywood Diversity Report found that films reflecting the real makeup of the country earn the most, while the industry funded fewer of them in 2025, with people of color and women losing ground as leads, directors, and writers…
GhostwritingWhy I Always Write the First Chapter Last
Before the full manuscript, I write one chapter, send it over, and ask a single question: does this sound like you? Not is it accurate, not is it well-written, does it sound like you. Voice is what makes a ghostwritten…
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