GhostwritingReedsy accepts about 3% of applicants and wants ghostwriters to show five published books. That bar runs straight into the NDA every serious ghostwriter signs, and once you're in, every message, call and payment stays on the platform. Why I've…
Critical ThinkingEvery critical need in my Clearwater apartment has a primary and at least one backup: a UPS on every device, phone tethering, sixteen self-switching night lights, a propane camp stove and a reliable car. When Hurricane Milton cut the power…
BusinessAmazon wanted $6.99 to ship a $25.95 bottle of vitamins. The manufacturer shipped it free for four cents more. Sponsored listings that bury the right product, a $2.5 billion Prime settlement, shows that wreck their source material, Echoes that wake…
Artificial IntelligenceWIRED reports that HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster and Hachette staff use AI for publicity copy, back-cover text, emails to agents and cover art without telling authors, the same year publishers canceled books over suspected AI use. The tool isn't the…
CybersecurityAbout 100 spam emails a day were getting past years of hand-built filter rules. So I pointed my domain's MX records at the MXGuardian gateway. One user with seven aliases costs $4.50 a month, setup took one evening, and the…
FictionAbout 47,000 objects are tracked in Earth orbit, and models put the untracked debris in the hundreds of millions. Kessler syndrome is the chain reaction that could make some orbits unusable, and a war would set it off. It's the…
Book MarketingAmazon is fighting bots that scrape its reviews, and real shoppers are getting caught: a handful of reviews, no one-star sort, and a days-long wait for access. Here's what that means for authors and their ARC readers.
Book MarketingA short book isn't a sad book. A novella of about 21,000 words prints to roughly 80 to 100 pages, and a paperback earns its keep at signings, in local shops and as a gift. Here's how to format, size…
Book MarketingWhen readers say they can't download your free BookFunnel book, the cause is usually a setup mistake, a lost file or someone fishing for a clean copy. Here's how to fix it, what BookFunnel costs in 2026, and how the…
FictionMost plot holes in a novel are character holes: someone does something only because the author needed them to. Here's how I check finished drafts, using the methods from my Plot Handbook with AI as the checker, not the writer.
BusinessWhy the post-Cold War trade order is breaking down and America is bringing manufacturing home, from the pandemic and the chip shortage to war, shipping attacks and rare earths, and why the suppliers, workers and test labs behind each factory…
WritingPeople say the books we were forced to read in high school were masterpieces we were too young to appreciate. Most of mine were crap, and getting older didn't change that. The few that worked had a story that moved.
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