BrandingOne client raised over $30 million within a year of publishing, not because the book wrote the checks, but because it walked into every investor meeting ahead of him and named him the authority before he said a word. A…
Author InterviewsIn this conversation with Fiona Mcvie, I trace the whole path: where I came from, how a career got built on words, and the unglamorous realities of professional writing and ghostwriting. Updated for current numbers, it is the full story…
BusinessI am an introvert who spent years keeping my head down and treating asking for help as weakness. That nearly cost me everything. What rebuilt my career was the opposite: real relationships, built slowly through doing the work. Here is…
GhostwritingConfidentiality is not a feature of ghostwriting; it is the foundation, and without it the whole arrangement collapses. Your name goes on the book and mine never does, but only if both sides understand exactly what that means in practice.…
FictionMost dialogue advice gets the order backward, drilling technique and hoping authenticity follows. Real dialogue starts somewhere else: understanding why people actually talk the way they do. Get that, and the rules take care of themselves. Here is the psychology-first…
Writing LessonsThe wall behind my desk holds books I use, not books I display. Each one earned its spot by getting pulled down mid-project, while I draft novels, ghostwrite for clients, or build handbooks. This is not a best-of list scraped…
FictionDozens of novels sounds impossible until you see the machinery underneath: no decision fatigue, no disorganized research, no characters left half-built, no waiting on inspiration. A novel is not a mystery; it is a series of concrete problems that respond…
BrandingDoctors barely have time to eat lunch, let alone write 50,000 words. Yet a book can do things for a practice that no advertising can touch: trust, authority, and doors that open before a patient walks in. Here is why…
FictionShow, don't tell gets repeated like scripture and understood like almost nothing. Said as though it is self-explanatory, it leaves writers knowing they should show but unsure how. Here is what showing actually means on the page, what telling looks…
GhostwritingYou have already done the hard work, the companies, the problems solved, the expertise people pay for. A book turns all of it into a permanent asset that markets you around the clock and names you the authority in your…
Book CoachIn his nineties I sat with my grandfather and his lifetime of journals to write his memoir, and discovered the story I grew up on, that he survived Bataan, was wrong; the truth was a march through Manila, no less…
About RichardAt seventeen, my grandfather handed me his World War II diary and asked me to turn it into a book. He had served on the USS Panay and survived being marched through Manila as a prisoner. That first project became…
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