Behind the BookJune 16, 2026
Overconfident, underprepared and completely naive, with my eye on six hundred dollars and no idea I could not do the work until I was in too deep.
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Artificial IntelligenceJune 15, 2026
The U.S. government switched off Anthropic's most powerful AI models overnight, proving in a single stroke that nobody who uses AI actually owns it. If your business runs on a rented tool, whoever controls it can change the deal or…
GhostwritingJune 15, 2026
None of these felt like stories when they happened. A brick in a doorway. A microwave on the wrong network. Each one ended up carrying a chapter.
GhostwritingJune 14, 2026
Ghostwriting a nonfiction book is a craft of extraction and structure. The author has the knowledge; the work is drawing it out in their own voice.
Artificial IntelligenceJune 14, 2026
With SEO there is eventually a kind of big bang. A day arrives when Google decides to rank you. AEO does not work that way.
FictionJune 14, 2026
Sensory details are what make writing feel real. The craft is choosing the few right details instead of piling on every sense at once.
GhostwritingJune 13, 2026
Ghostwriting spans far more than books. Each form has its own rules, and the right ghostwriter is one who knows the specific form.
Behind the BookJune 13, 2026
A complete failure, millions on the line by Monday morning, every vendor number unanswered. Twenty years in the industry and not one person I could call.
FictionJune 13, 2026
Crime fiction lives or dies on plausibility. Ghostwriting it means getting the details right without letting research smother the story.
BusinessJune 13, 2026
Musk became the world's first trillionaire, but the number is the least interesting part; the money is just fuel for Mars, the Moon, and the asteroid belt. We are watching humanity begin to go multiplanetary, and the people building it…
Book MarketingJune 12, 2026
Trolls do not choose targets at random; they go where the reaction is, and certain online behaviors light them up like a beacon, from sharing personal stories to correcting people to simply being visible. None of these are wrong. But…
Behind the BookJune 11, 2026
I was going to write the great American novel. What nobody described was the part where writing is a business with invoices in it.
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