TechnologyFebruary 11, 2026
Three hours arguing with a Commodore 64 about where to put a brass lantern, and I was not mad, I was impressed: Zork understood English, remembered my moves, and responded like it was alive. Text adventures were collaborative fiction; SimCity…
BusinessFebruary 11, 2026
Working under constant surveillance, every move second-guessed, is the unmistakable feeling of a micromanager. Across 33 years I have worked for them and alongside them, and watched the damage: good people who stop trying, teams that grind down. Here is…
GhostwritingFebruary 11, 2026
A book proposal is not a summary of your book; it is a business case arguing that the book will sell, the readers are real, and you are the one to write it, the document that lands a traditional deal.…
Book MarketingFebruary 11, 2026
I once wrote 25,000 words for $1,000 at a ghostwriting shop. Now a single book project runs $50,000 or more. In this interview I walk through exactly how that shift happened, from the confidence to raise rates to the business…
FictionFebruary 11, 2026
Choosing a point of view feels easy until you are 150 pages in and realize you have been head-hopping, or describing things your narrator could never see. POV consistency breaks at novel length precisely because it looks trivial. Here is…
FictionFebruary 11, 2026
I'm stressed about tomorrow. Did you know Mongolia has under three million people? That sideways reply is a non sequitur, and what reads as awkward in real life becomes a precision tool in fiction. A character who dodges the obvious…
BusinessFebruary 11, 2026
I was raised never to burn bridges, so for 33 years I stayed in jobs long past the point I should have left, enduring toxic bosses to protect contacts I would never use. When I finally walked, almost no one…
GhostwritingFebruary 11, 2026
Right now someone is watching a webinar promising a six-figure ghostwriting career, run by a presenter who got rich selling courses, not writing books, and the certification costs thousands. After 54+ client books and 113+ of my own, I can…
FictionFebruary 11, 2026
Fill out the worksheet, assign the eye color and the favorite food, list three strengths and three weaknesses, and you get a character who is technically complete and feels like small talk with a stranger. Details are not the problem;…
WritingFebruary 11, 2026
113+ books, 54+ ghostwriting projects, 12,000 words on a good day, and still some mornings a voice says I have no idea what I'm doing. It has been there through every book, including one that raised $30 million for a…
BusinessFebruary 11, 2026
Romance is the single largest category in commercial fiction, bigger than mystery and thriller combined, and it rewards writers who understand what readers actually want instead of what writers assume they want. Most advice misses that entirely. Here is what…
BusinessFebruary 11, 2026
Mystery is the biggest commercial fiction category after romance, with thriller it claims about 35 percent of adult fiction sales. These readers move fast and spend real money, and they can feel a cheat. Most advice treats the genre as…
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