FictionFebruary 11, 2026
Most writers build worlds backward, drawing maps and inventing languages before they have a story, then wonder why it all feels like a museum exhibit. World building is structure, not decoration. Here is how to build a place through geography,…
WritingFebruary 11, 2026
Writing 10,000 words in a day sounds impossible until you see the machinery behind it. I do it on top of ghostwriting, blogging, and promotion, and the secret is not talent or typing speed. It is a system of goals,…
FictionFebruary 11, 2026
It took me decades and 113+ books to learn the lesson that changed how I write: stop overthinking. The worst thing I can do starting a project is construct it intellectually before I feel my way in. Here is why…
Book CoachFebruary 11, 2026
Some clients hire me to write the whole book; others want to write it themselves and just need someone who has done it before walking beside them. That second path is coaching. Here is what it actually looks like session…
BusinessFebruary 11, 2026
The AI copyright debate everyone has, can a machine be an author, is the wrong one. It has almost nothing to do with the issues you will actually hit using AI tools. Drawing on daily use across ghostwriting and fiction,…
Artificial IntelligenceFebruary 11, 2026
AI can spit out a book-length manuscript in minutes, and the internet is full of people who wrote a book in a weekend with ChatGPT. The output exists; whether anyone will care is another matter. The machine predicts likely next…
GhostwritingFebruary 11, 2026
In late 2013 I walked away from twenty years as Director of Computer Operations at Trader Joe's, overworked and trading my health for a job that had stopped giving back. I had savings and a dream I had carried since…
FictionFebruary 11, 2026
An allegory dies the instant a reader catches it being an allegory, the moment they think this stands for that and switch from reading to decoding. Then the story becomes a lecture with a plot. The fix is a surface…
FictionFebruary 11, 2026
The most important rule of killing a character is that the death has to be earned, and it is the rule writers break most often. Pile on the emotional score all you want; an unearned death still reads as cheap.…
Book MarketingFebruary 11, 2026
One client raised over $30 million within a year of publishing, not because the book wrote the checks, but because it walked into every investor meeting ahead of him and named him the authority before he said a word. A…
PeopleFebruary 11, 2026
In this conversation with Fiona Mcvie, I trace the whole path: where I came from, how a career got built on words, and the unglamorous realities of professional writing and ghostwriting. Updated for current numbers, it is the full story…
Book MarketingFebruary 11, 2026
I am an introvert who spent years keeping my head down and treating asking for help as weakness. That nearly cost me everything. What rebuilt my career was the opposite: real relationships, built slowly through doing the work. Here is…
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