GhostwritingAt seventeen I ghostwrote my grandfather's war story, a man the family called a curmudgeon and told me to avoid. Sitting down with his account of Corregidor, the Manila Death March, and 42 months as a prisoner changed everything I…
GhostwritingYou have been planning that book for five years. You have the framework, the stories, the clients ready to write testimonials tomorrow. You just do not have the book. Meanwhile the competitor who published last fall collects the podcast invitations…
GhostwritingSomeday someone in your family will try to tell your story at a funeral, and they will get the broad strokes wrong, forgetting what defined you, scrambling the timeline, flattening decades into a few generic sentences. Within two generations, nobody…
FictionA busy street through a dog's eyes is not signs and storefronts; it is exhaust, a wall of noise, the dart of feet, the same scene rebuilt entirely from instinct and sensation. Writing an animal's POV means abandoning human-centered thinking,…
HolidayEvery month has a reason to celebrate books, if you know where to look. This calendar collects more than 100 of them: author birthdays, fictional character birthdays, reading holidays, and the odd offbeat date worth marking. Use it for content…
FictionThe difference between a story people finish and one they never forget is feeling, the ability to reach through the page and stir something real. That is emotional writing, and it starts with understanding what truly drives your characters. Here…
About RichardAt 64, after 113+ books and a tech career, I learned I am autistic and have ADHD, and probably always was, which rewrote my entire life story. For decades I thought something was wrong with me. The same wiring that…
AdviceA single post can now reach thousands of people, and that reach cuts both ways: what you say online follows you and shapes how people see you. These ten rules are not complicated. Here is how to handle yourself on…
Book MarketingEvery self-publishing success looks inevitable in hindsight and messy in the moment. This is the real version, an ALLi author's path through the wins, the false starts, and the systems that finally made it work. Here is what the journey…
BloggingIf you have ever commented on a blog and gotten a faceless gray silhouette, Gravatar is the fix, a single profile image linked to your email that follows you across thousands of sites automatically. I get asked about it constantly.…
BrandingWhat separates a LinkedIn profile that opens doors from one that sits ignored? In this conversation with host Rochel Marie Lawson, I break down the mistakes most professionals make and the practical moves that turn a profile into a branding…
GhostwritingYou have been saying I don't have time to write a book for years, and you are right, nobody has four hours a day to learn story structure and stare at a blank screen. That is exactly why ghostwriting exists.…
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