HolidaySet a writing resolution in January and you have likely broken it by March, because resolutions are gym memberships in disguise, all enthusiasm and no structure. The fix is not more willpower; it is goals instead of resolutions. Here is…
GhostwritingThe word ghost is right there in the name. The entire point is that the client is the author and my name never appears, and across 54+ projects that has been true every single time. Here is how authorship and…
Book ProposalAt seventeen I wrote my first memoir, my grandfather's, a Navy cook captured at Corregidor who survived the POW camps and a march through Manila. The family's version was secondhand and partly wrong, so I interviewed him for dozens of…
Book MarketingElise announced 50,000 views on her book trailer, and three months later texted her Amazon dashboard: twelve copies sold. Those views were digital applause, lovely to hear, impossible to bank. Authors fall for vanity metrics every time. The number that…
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Artificial IntelligenceI use AI daily, wrote two free guides on it, and built 45 handbooks around it, so this is not an anti-AI rant; it is an anti-stupidity one. AI is a research assistant with infinite knowledge and zero memory, a…
GhostwritingThe hardest part of writing a book is not the writing; it is the deciding. People weigh it for months or years while the book stays a someday idea. Here are three clients who finally committed, a manager past a…
Book MarketingMost book marketing advice is not just unhelpful, it is destructive, sending writers off to dance on TikTok for years while their books gather digital dust. I have published 113+ books, sold 15,000 copies of one in three days, and…
Book CoachNo, ghostwriters do not get royalties, not as standard practice and not on any of my 54+ projects. I charge by the word with milestone payments tied to real deliverables, so the work gets paid as it gets written. Here…
Best SellerOnce a month someone asks me how to hit the New York Times list, and I tell them the truth they do not want to hear: it barely matters. The lists are corrupt and largely irrelevant to what a book…
Book MarketingPublishing the book is not the finish line, it is the starting line. A book sitting on Amazon doing nothing is a wasted asset. Here are 15 concrete ways my most successful clients put their books to work, and what…
About RichardThe more you read, the more you know, Dr. Seuss told children, and Richard Lowe built a whole career on the line. From a kid haunting libraries to a 20-year tech career at Trader Joe's to 54+ ghostwritten books and…
GhostwritingMost people picture a book as a product you sell. In business, a book is a tool you use, and the royalties are the least interesting thing about it. The real value is credibility, visibility, and turning strangers into clients.
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