WritingFebruary 9, 2026
I put my television in a closet and left it there for ten years. Friends thought I had lost my mind. What I gained was a decade of focus that produced more than 50 books and a business. Here is…
GhostwritingFebruary 9, 2026
A 2024 study of 350-plus business authors found ghostwritten books four times more profitable than self-written ones, and the market has passed a billion dollars while growing nearly 8 percent a year. Smart people figured out what most have not.…
BusinessFebruary 9, 2026
The internet is wall to wall with programs promising millions in a week, and most are case studies in how not to make money online. My first venture with Don Lapre's 900 numbers cost $750 and returned $7.50. Here is…
PeopleFebruary 9, 2026
A misplaced comma can turn a sentence into something you never meant. Weird Al's Word Crimes made the most common mistakes catchy, but the real cost is trust: sloppy mechanics make readers quietly doubt you. Here are ten grammar and…
Book CoachFebruary 9, 2026
2:47 AM, seventeen dead drafts of one paragraph, cold tea, a cursor blinking like it is mocking you, every writer knows that graveyard. The Zeya Method is a coaching system built to get you out of it, a repeatable way…
WritingFebruary 9, 2026
I wanted a contemplative little studio philosopher and got Sylvia Plath in hamster form, waking at 6:47 AM sharp with an existential crisis disguised as a to-do list. Catfood the neurotic hamster turned out to be a perfect lens on…
Book MarketingFebruary 9, 2026
Whatever your politics, the 2024 election was a branding clinic, one campaign defining its message with precision while the other never established one. The lessons reach far past politics, into how anyone builds authority: messaging, audience, and the quiet role…
Book MarketingFebruary 9, 2026
In 2012, Gawker unmasked one of Reddit's most notorious trolls and found an ordinary man with a job and a family whose hobby was making the internet worse. Trolling follows patterns, and once you see them, you can respond. Here…
MemoirsFebruary 9, 2026
July 20, 1969: eight years old, black-and-white TV, Walter Cronkite's voice cracking as the Eagle touched down. I did not fully understand it, but I understood people were on the moon. That night lit a lifelong obsession with space and…
Book MarketingFebruary 9, 2026
Behind the whisky and the profanity, the Critical Drinker dissects setup, payoff, and character arc more sharply than most paid film critics. The persona is a drunk ranting at a bar; the analysis is anything but. The press files him…
Book MarketingFebruary 9, 2026
Social media makes broadcasting raw emotion effortless, and after a charged event thousands post themselves crying, yelling, even threatening. Feeling it is natural; publishing it is the trap, because the internet forgets nothing and the consequences arrive long after the…
Book MarketingFebruary 9, 2026
Most authors think a book makes money through royalties. Royalties are the smallest, slowest money it will ever make. The book is not the product, it is the engine that sells everything else you do. Here is how a book…
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