Critical ThinkingFebruary 9, 2026
When intelligent people make terrible arguments, logical fallacies are usually the culprit. They are wrecking our capacity for productive conversation, and social media turned it into a spectator sport. Here are the ten I see most often, with the fixes.
FictionFebruary 9, 2026
Spotless heroes take the high road; anti-heroes lie, scheme, and compromise, and somehow we love them more. Their flaws make them feel real in a way the virtuous rarely do. Here are ten reasons the anti-hero grips us, drawn from…
Artificial IntelligenceFebruary 9, 2026
Two creators launched the same month: Sarah handed everything to AI, Mike kept his own voice. Six months on, Mike's readers trusted him and bought, while Sarah's posts vanished into the feed, her fake citations got her flagged, and the…
GhostwritingFebruary 9, 2026
Most people who set out to write a book never finish; the ones who hire a professional do. That is the real advantage of a ghostwritten book, and after 54+ projects I can name the rest with specifics, from venture…
Critical ThinkingFebruary 9, 2026
On trigger warnings, both camps are half right and neither is listening, protection on one side, censorship on the other. The real question is quieter: should a book tell you what is inside before you open it? Having ghostwritten memoirs…
MemoirsFebruary 9, 2026
Most memoir attempts collapse in the middle, not from weak material but because the writer started before knowing what the book was actually about. Across 54+ memoirs, every one began not with writing but with discovery, hours of interviews finding…
Book MarketingFebruary 9, 2026
Most books that fail do not fail because the writing is terrible. They fail because the author made avoidable mistakes in structure, characters, pacing, or marketing. Here are the most common problems, each paired with a book that got it…
FictionFebruary 9, 2026
Villeneuve's Dune is gorgeous and largely faithful, but faithful is not the same as identical, and the gaps are where the real choices live, the cut dinner party, the vanished Alia, a dozen others. Some sharpened the story; some dulled…
PoliticsFebruary 9, 2026
An election is not a policy debate; it is a story, with the candidate cast as hero or villain and the voter deciding how it ends. Every modern campaign ran on a narrative, not a platform, nostalgia, urgency, a symbol…
Book MarketingFebruary 9, 2026
A political tweet looks spontaneous and almost never is, it is engineered to trigger fear and outrage in 280 characters, with context stripped out on purpose. In 2024 both campaigns weaponized the format. Once you see the machinery, it loses…
MemoirsFebruary 9, 2026
A friend scrapbooks her way through every election, clippings, printed articles, handwritten notes, and ends with a physical record of what she thought and felt while everyone else just drowned in the noise. My memoir clients hand me decades of…
Critical ThinkingFebruary 9, 2026
You step into the booth to vote your values, but the wording of a ballot initiative can quietly steer you somewhere else, loaded phrasing, deliberate confusion, false simplicity. In skilled hands, the language itself becomes the manipulation. Here is how…
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