Writing Lessons113+ books, 54+ ghostwriting projects, 12,000 words on a good day, and still some mornings a voice says I have no idea what I'm doing. It has been there through every book, including one that raised $30 million for a…
Book EmpireRomance is the single largest category in commercial fiction, bigger than mystery and thriller combined, and it rewards writers who understand what readers actually want rather than what writers assume they want. Most advice misses that entirely. Here is what…
Book EmpireMystery is the biggest commercial fiction category after romance, with thriller it claims about 35 percent of adult fiction sales. These readers move fast and spend real money, and they can feel a cheat. Most advice treats the genre as…
CybersecurityMost social media audits are about looking professional: clean up the photos, polish the profile. That misses the real risk. Your posts, check-ins, and images are a map for anyone who wants to find you. Here is how to audit…
Book MarketingMost book marketing advice comes from people who sell marketing courses, not people who have sold books. Build a list, run ads, get on BookBub: it sounds reasonable and skips the part that matters. After 113+ books, here is what…
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HolidayThanksgiving hands a writer everything at once: gratitude and guilt, warmth and dysfunction, food, family, and a tangle of uncomfortable history. It has fueled stories since long before it was a national holiday. Here is how books and movies have…
Book MarketingMost of my books sit at four and five stars, but every author eventually meets the brutal one-star takedown. The first one stings; it does not have to derail you. After 113+ books, here is how I read a bad…
FictionDead parents, abusive childhoods, betrayed trusts, writers stack trauma into character bibles like medals at a suffering Olympics. The problem is not that the past matters; it is treating it as decoration instead of the engine driving how a character…
GhostwritingGhostwriting has always been legal; no country prohibits one person writing what another signs. The interesting question is the ethical one, and that gets answered in the agreement. Here is how contracts, copyright transfer, and professional standards protect both parties…
GhostwritingYou built the company, lived the story, earned the expertise. You also know you are never going to write the book yourself, and that is not a failure; it is a clear-eyed read on your time. Here is exactly what…
AdviceI spent 33 years in technology, twenty of them at Trader Joe's, building a career that looked successful from the outside. Then at 53 I walked away from all of it. That decision taught me more about happiness than three…
Critical ThinkingIn 2011 researchers asked over 5,000 Americans how wealth is distributed. They guessed the top 20 percent owned 59 percent; the real figure was 84. They guessed the bottom 40 percent held 9 percent; the real figure was 0.3. An…
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