GhostwritingEvery modern president, and most senators, governors, and cabinet members, has used a ghostwriter. The memoirs that shape legacies and the policy books that build authority are collaborations, and that is simply how political communication runs. Here is how leaders…
EducationI built a pretend computer out of paper clips in kindergarten, already obsessed with how systems fit together. That obsession drove four decades of choices, from running tech for a $16 billion company to publishing 113+ books. Here is how…
FictionThe food scenes that stay with you were never about the food. What a character eats, how, with whom, and what they push away quietly tells the reader about class, culture, psychology, and power, no exposition required. A meal is…
TechnologyThree hours arguing with a Commodore 64 about where to put a brass lantern, and I was not mad, I was impressed: Zork understood English, remembered my moves, and responded like it was alive. Text adventures were collaborative fiction; SimCity…
BusinessWorking under constant surveillance, every move second-guessed, is the unmistakable feeling of a micromanager. Across 33 years I have worked for them and alongside them, and watched the damage: good people who stop trying, teams that grind down. Here is…
Book ProposalA book proposal is not a summary of your book; it is a business case arguing that the book will sell, the readers are real, and you are the one to write it, the document that lands a traditional deal.…
BrandingI once wrote 25,000 words for $1,000 at a ghostwriting shop. Now a single book project runs $50,000 or more. In this interview I walk through exactly how that shift happened, from the confidence to raise rates to the business…
FictionChoosing a point of view feels easy until you are 150 pages in and realize you have been head-hopping, or describing things your narrator could never see. POV consistency breaks at novel length precisely because it looks trivial. Here is…
FictionI'm stressed about tomorrow. Did you know Mongolia has under three million people? That sideways reply is a non sequitur, and what reads as awkward in real life becomes a precision tool in fiction. A character who dodges the obvious…
AdviceI was raised never to burn bridges, so for 33 years I stayed in jobs long past the point I should have left, enduring toxic bosses to protect contacts I would never use. When I finally walked, almost no one…
GhostwritingRight now someone is watching a webinar promising a six-figure ghostwriting career, run by a presenter who got rich selling courses, not writing books, and the certification costs thousands. After 54+ client books and 113+ of my own, I can…
FictionFill out the worksheet, assign the eye color and the favorite food, list three strengths and three weaknesses, and you get a character who is technically complete and feels like small talk with a stranger. Details are not the problem;…
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