Artificial IntelligenceFebruary 12, 2026
I use AI daily, wrote 45 handbooks on it, and consult on using it well, so this is not technophobia, it is the opposite, and that is why what I am seeing alarms me. People have stopped treating AI as…
GhostwritingFebruary 12, 2026
Most people have never seen a ghostwriting agreement, so the Statement of Work feels like a black box. It should not. Before I write a word, this document settles deliverables, payments, ownership, scope changes, and what happens if things go…
GhostwritingFebruary 12, 2026
Every political speech, op-ed, and book exists to move people toward a position, persuasion with real consequences attached. The techniques behind it are not secret; they are centuries-old rhetorical strategies, and the difference between memorable and forgettable is execution. Here…
Thought LeadershipFebruary 12, 2026
The smartest leaders I work with are often the worst communicators, and it is no accident: they built expertise so deep they forgot how to explain it to anyone who lacks it. They know everything and cannot make you care.…
Book MarketingFebruary 12, 2026
Almost no client tells me they want a book to make money. They say they need to be taken seriously, they need credibility, they need trust, and the money follows trust every time. A book builds that trust before a…
Book MarketingFebruary 12, 2026
Every client begins with a vague feeling that there is a book in them somewhere, and no idea what it looks like, and that uncertainty is completely normal. Not one of my 54+ books arrived as a finished concept; each…
Book CoachFebruary 12, 2026
I charge $1 a word, which puts a typical book between $50,000 and $80,000. When prospects hear that, some of them simply disappear. Rejection is part of this business, and almost no one talks honestly about it. Here is how…
WritingFebruary 12, 2026
I am writing ten books at once: five novels in progress, plus client work, coaching, and handbooks, producing up to 12,000 words on a typical day. I also have autism and ADHD together, the combination most people assume would make…
Book MarketingFebruary 12, 2026
A layoff makes the ground vanish: one day a title and a team, the next a kitchen table and a question. I have worked with clients in exactly that spot, suddenly holding severance and time. Here is why that unwelcome…
MemoirsFebruary 12, 2026
Set a writing resolution in January and you have likely broken it by March, because resolutions are gym memberships in disguise, all enthusiasm and no structure. The fix is not more willpower; it is goals instead of resolutions. Here is…
GhostwritingFebruary 12, 2026
The word ghost is right there in the name. The entire point is that the client is the author and my name never appears, and across 54+ projects that has been true every single time. Here is how authorship and…
MemoirsFebruary 12, 2026
At seventeen I wrote my first memoir, my grandfather's, a Navy cook captured at Corregidor who survived the POW camps and a march through Manila. The family's version was secondhand and partly wrong, so I interviewed him for dozens of…
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