MemoirsEvery person carries a whole world inside their head, decades of lessons, turning points, close calls, failures, and when they die, all of it vanishes. Your grandkids inherit photos and a few secondhand stories that shrink with each retelling, until…
GhostwritingYou made this resolution last January, and the one before, and by March you had stopped thinking about it both times. 2026 will be no different, and not for lack of discipline or a story worth telling. Writing a book…
Book MarketingReview bombing is the practice of flooding a product, service, or creator with coordinated negative reviews that have little to do with actual quality. Here is where it hits hardest, the structural conflicts that make it worse, how to spot…
Artificial IntelligenceA client swore they got better output from ChatGPT by cursing at it. I laughed, then got curious, then realized they were right, frustrated and blunt usually means specific, and specific beats polite every time. The lesson is not really…
PeopleIn this conversation I talk about turning a decade of belly dance photography into coloring books, four of them built from real performers instead of generic clip art. Shooting dancers since 2005 is exactly what makes them different. Here is…
Book MarketingBooks without reviews struggle to sell. It is that simple. As an author of more than 113 self-published books, I have watched books with a handful of honest reviews outsell books with none, regardless of quality. Here is how to…
Book MarketingWriting the book is the part authors prepare for. Selling it is the part that ambushes them. The problem is almost never quality, it is visibility. Here is how book marketing really works and where to spend your effort so…
GhostwritingA single ghostwritten book in 1987 turned a real estate developer into a household name. Tony Schwartz wrote The Art of the Deal, took $500,000 and half the royalties, and helped build the public image that carried Donald Trump toward…
GhostwritingA computer operations director at Trader Joe's turned grief into a ghostwriting practice serving celebrities and Fortune 500 CEOs, an unlikely path I traced in an unconference talk to the Metal group. The twist: the skills that ran enterprise IT,…
Critical ThinkingNobody joins a cult; they join a group that promises something beautiful, and the cult part arrives later, after the doors lock. Cults recruit not with warning labels but with answers, belonging, purpose, love, right when you need them. A…
TechnologyThe Martian captured the raw tension of survival; Red Mars painted a future both thrilling and terrifying. But the pull of a Mars mission was never really the plot lines for me. It is what actually going would change about…
Book MarketingEvery email you send and every business card you hand over carries an address, and that address says something about you before a single word is read. An old AOL handle tells one story; your own domain tells another. Here…
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