GhostwritingFebruary 10, 2026
At 65, with 120 published books and eight novels in progress, age has never once stopped me, yet it freezes a lot of people on both ends. The young think they need more credentials before anyone listens; the old think…
Book MarketingFebruary 10, 2026
Marketing gurus swear LinkedIn recommendations matter; no client has ever told me one brought them to me, and I never read anyone else's. They sit buried below where people scroll. Yet I still request and write them, because a complete…
Book MarketingFebruary 10, 2026
Finishing the book is not the finish line, it is the starting line, because a book nobody knows about is a tool gathering dust. I tell every client the same thing: start promoting the day we begin, do not wait…
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Book CoachFebruary 10, 2026
I have published 113+ books and write up to 12,000 words a day, and I also have ADHD that fights me on focus every morning. Every book got finished despite the obstacles, not in their absence. Here is what actually…
GhostwritingFebruary 10, 2026
Yesterday a client stood up at an event and thanked me publicly for his book, and I got tears in my eyes, because in 54+ projects the clients who have done that fit on one hand. The recognition is rare…
FictionFebruary 10, 2026
From ancient oral traditions to modern horror, ghost stories tap the same deep nerve: the fear of death, the question of after, the suspicion that the line between living and dead is thinner than we admit. I work in this…
BusinessFebruary 10, 2026
For twenty years I ran technology for a $16 billion retailer and wrote seriously the entire time, building the body of work that became a ghostwriting career. You do not need to quit your job to write. Here is how…
FictionFebruary 10, 2026
A sharp metaphor compresses meaning and speeds the reader up. A clumsy one halts them mid-sentence to decode it. That is the whole difference between writing that flows and writing that snags. Here is how to tell a working metaphor…
FictionFebruary 10, 2026
Every tattoo tells a story, which is exactly why they work in fiction. A character's body is a text you can read, the scars, the posture, the clothes, the habits they cannot control, each one revealing psychology with no exposition…
CybersecurityFebruary 10, 2026
Tony stole $3,000 from me at 26, and twenty-five years later that con probably saved me thousands more when a Facebook scammer came calling. I thought I understood deception, I had worked in early computer security. Tony taught me otherwise.…
Book CoachFebruary 10, 2026
My cat chased a lizard for two solid hours, pouncing and missing while it darted through the shadows, never catching it, never quitting. After 54+ ghostwriting projects, I have never seen a better picture of writing a book, the persistence,…
Book MarketingFebruary 10, 2026
LinkedIn Learning packs thousands of courses, and its real advantage is that finishing one shows up as a credential on your profile. The danger is badge-collecting, watching passively and learning nothing. Here is how to get genuine value: start from…
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