I Asked for a Weekend Off. My Boss Said Fifteen Minutes or You Are Fired.
Not asking permission, just telling him I would be out of range for a weekend. He said if I did not call back within fifteen minutes of a page, I was fired.
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Thought LeadershipStop Doing the Thinking for Your Reader
Most nonfiction hands the reader a conclusion and then explains it. The books people remember hand them the evidence and let them arrive.
Behind the BookIt Took a Camera to Make Me Comfortable Around Women
I went looking for a method and found several. None of them made me comfortable in a room with a woman in it. A camera did that, years later, entirely by accident.
GhostwritingCo-author splits: 50/50, 60/40, 70/30 and when each one works
The 50/50 co-author split is the lazy default and rarely correct. Four variables decide the right one: who brings the audience, who brings the substance, who does the writing, who runs the launch. Here is the math behind 50/50, 60/40,…
Book MarketingThe ghostwriter’s role after the manuscript is done
Most ghostwriters vanish at delivery; the best stay through launch and beyond. Here is what yours should be able to help with once the manuscript is done, pitch packages, back-cover copy, podcast-tour materials, content repurposing, keynote scripts drawn from the…
GhostwritingAI audiobook for your ghostwritten book: a working ghostwriter’s guide for 2026
ACX, Findaway, and Spotify all rewrote their AI-narration rules in the past 18 months, and the rules are still moving. Here is what each platform actually permits in 2026, when AI narration is the right call for an authority book,…
Book CoachStuck at chapter 3: the four reasons authors stall and which one needs which intervention
Almost every author who starts a book stalls at chapter 3, and the reasons are predictable while the fixes are specific. Here are the four root causes, structure, voice, motivation, and expertise, and the intervention each one actually needs. Most…
Book CoachThe hybrid model: ghostwriting some chapters, coaching others
Most authors who think they need full ghostwriting actually need a hybrid: ghostwriting on the chapters they cannot write, the technical, complex, or sensitive ones, and coaching on the chapters they can write but need help shaping. Here is when…
Book MarketingApple Books for the authority author
Apple Books has 600 million active devices and a customer base that skews professional and affluent, a serious authority-author opportunity almost nobody writes about. Here is why it matters more for B2B nonfiction than for fiction, what its discovery and…
Ghostwriting10 questions to ask a ghostwriter about voice and style before you sign
Voice mismatch is the number-one reason ghostwriting projects fail, and the questions you ask before signing decide whether the manuscript sounds like you when it lands. Here are ten questions focused narrowly on voice and style, each built to reveal…
GhostwritingThe manuscript came back and it doesn’t sound like me. Now what?
The manuscript landed and the voice is wrong, the argument is yours, the structure is yours, but the prose reads like a stranger wrote it. Here is why that happens, the four root causes to diagnose before you react, and…
Book MarketingSpeaker bureaus and the conference circuit: how a book actually gets you on stages
A book is the credential that unlocks speaker-fee tiers, from free-with-a-meal all the way to $5,000-to-$20,000 keynotes. The path runs through speaker bureaus, conference networks, and a one-sheet most authors botch. Here is which bureaus take ghostwritten authors, how the…
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