CybersecurityJanuary 15, 2026
I ran PCI compliance at a national retailer for twenty years and passed every audit, then started ghostwriting books for the security leaders who live this work. Here is what nobody admits: passing an audit and being secure are not…
MemoirsJanuary 14, 2026
Dialogue that sounds like a police report has no life in it. A forceful bellydancer named Marjhani taught the lesson without ever reading a word.
GhostwritingJanuary 13, 2026
A prospective client did the thing almost nobody does and rang the people I had worked with. What came back was not what either of us expected, and it was the most useful thing that happened that year.
GhostwritingJanuary 12, 2026
A hundred plastic kits and fifty-four ghostwritten books turn out to have the same lesson in them, about sequence, about patience, and about the parts nobody will ever see once the thing is finished.
GhostwritingJanuary 11, 2026
The scenes memoir writers skip because they seem boring are usually where the power lives. A quiet moment in a client interview proved it.
Thought LeadershipJanuary 8, 2026
The story you keep circling and never starting is usually the one with somebody waiting on the other end of it. Why the fear is a signal instead of a warning.
Book MarketingJanuary 8, 2026
Income screenshots are the oldest trick in the writing advice business, and they tell you nothing you can act on. What a number would have to include before it meant anything at all.
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Thought LeadershipJanuary 7, 2026
Somebody wrote a book that got you through something, and they never knew it happened. That transaction runs in both directions, which is the argument for writing the one you keep not writing.
Thought LeadershipJanuary 6, 2026
The thing you have not said is the most dangerous thing you own, and the cost of keeping it is higher than the cost of writing it down.
Artificial IntelligenceJanuary 5, 2026
It is not bad writing, it is safe writing. It does not lack talent, it lacks scars. It is an excellent writer with nothing to say. Seven reframings of what is wrong with machine prose.
Artificial IntelligenceDecember 31, 2025
The threat is not AI replacing writers. It is other writers using AI replacing you. Which skills stop mattering, which start to matter more, and what the gap looks like in practice.
Writing CraftDecember 29, 2025
Writing resolutions rely on motivation, and motivation is gone by late January. Write more is not a goal. What replaces willpower, and why the resolution was usually the wrong shape to begin with.
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