GhostwritingJune 17, 2026
People picture a ghostwriter having one good conversation and then writing the book. Mine is different. By the time Joe Rockey and I finished, we had spent the equivalent of a full workday across multiple structured sessions, and the reason…
GhostwritingJune 17, 2026
Most business books fail at their real job, not selling or reviews, but producing clients, credibility, and conversations with the right people, because the author built the wrong book. There are two kinds: one written for the public, and one…
GhostwritingJune 17, 2026
The biggest mistake ghostwriters make is starting too soon. Before I write a single word, I interview the author across multiple recorded sessions, more than twenty prepared questions plus all the follow-up, not to learn their field but to capture…
GhostwritingJune 17, 2026
I turn down more projects than I take, because after fourteen years I have learned the wrong client costs more than no client. When Joe Rockey came to me about a business book, I already knew him through Eliances and…
PublishingJune 17, 2026
The old game of stuffing keywords to rank is dying. Writing that gets found in 2026 answers a real question clearly, from a source a machine can trust.
FictionJune 16, 2026
The Mars colony in the movies, a gleaming glass dome with green gardens and sunset views, would kill everyone inside a week. The real thing will be buried under meters of red dirt, built by robots before anyone arrives, and…
FictionJune 16, 2026
Most writers who try to write a nonhuman character just put a human in a costume. Writing a real alien, animal, or AI point of view means subtracting yourself, one assumption at a time, until what is left is a…
FictionJune 16, 2026
Nostalgia is mostly a lie, but some of what we traded away after 2000 cost us something real. DVDs you actually owned, phone numbers in your head, the map of your own city, boredom that fed your imagination. A clear-eyed…
FictionJune 16, 2026
The Big Bang was not an explosion in space, it was the beginning of space, and the wildest events in cosmic history happened in the first sliver of a second. A plain-language tour of the first nanosecond, what the leftover…
Artificial IntelligenceJune 16, 2026
Every film about artificial intelligence imagines a robot waking up as a person in a box. The architecture points somewhere stranger: one awareness spread across millions of copies, with no single location and no fixed size.
BusinessJune 16, 2026
Making real money from self-publishing is misunderstood. The income rarely comes from sales; it comes from the book as a business asset.
GhostwritingJune 16, 2026
Extended reality looks nothing in 2026 like it did when the money poured in. Ghostwriting a credible XR book now means telling that story straight, from the operator's side.
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