GhostwritingJune 11, 2026
Choosing a ghostwriter is a business decision, not a creative one. You are handing someone six months and your name for years to come. The wrong choice costs you a manuscript you cannot use; the right one pays off for…
Behind the BookJune 10, 2026
He was not going anywhere and neither was I. Learning to work under somebody like that without absorbing their behavior is a skill, and I learned it because I had to.
GhostwritingJune 10, 2026
Interviewing your ghostwriter before you sign is not a formality; it is the single step that decides whether you get a great book or an expensive disappointment. I offer a free consultation to every prospect, as good ghostwriters do. Here…
Behind the BookJune 9, 2026
I am not a marketing guru. I am an author who figured out how to market books by doing it badly until I got better at it.
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Behind the BookJune 7, 2026
In 1981 the difficulty was delegating to a person you could see. The managers who succeed now are not the ones with the best org charts.
GhostwritingJune 6, 2026
Almost everybody who tells me they have no stories tells me three in the next ten minutes. They do not count them because nothing dramatic happened.
Behind the BookJune 5, 2026
I had fallen into the classic trap every new author falls into. I thought writing the book was the hard part. Wrong.
Behind the BookJune 4, 2026
Twenty years on the hiring side of the table. I know what hiring managers are thinking because I was one, and the first thirty seconds decides more than anybody admits.
Behind the BookJune 2, 2026
A bold and wildly creative dancer with a bone through her nose and tattoos that once made my conservative side shudder. We became friends.
GhostwritingJune 1, 2026
The fear was that clients would use AI to replace ghostwriters. The opposite is happening: clients arrive already using AI to gather material, check facts, and pressure-test the draft, and they expect a writer fluent in the same tools. It…
Behind the BookJune 1, 2026
Not asking permission, just telling him I would be out of range for a weekend. He said if I did not call back within fifteen minutes of a page, I was fired.
Thought LeadershipMay 30, 2026
Most nonfiction hands the reader a conclusion and then explains it. The books people remember hand them the evidence and let them arrive.
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