GhostwritingUsing a ghostwriter for a family story isn't cheating when the memories and voice belong to the family. How to keep the book honest: your relative's own words, their letters, family review, and no invented scenes.
GhostwritingI proposed at Wendy's on our third date, and then we married four times in a single week. It is not a story about a couple who kept getting it wrong; it is about finding your person and watching the…
GhostwritingYou said you would write it this year, and you didn't, same as 2024, same as 2023, because you are busy and the business always comes first. So another year passes, your expertise stays trapped in your head, and competitors…
Business7:03 AM, driving to a Renaissance Faire shoot with camera gear rattling in the back, the BlackBerry buzzes: what do you want me to do about the computer crash? A cascade of failures had taken the servers, the backups, and…
GhostwritingDexter ran a secret lab out of his bedroom while his sister wrecked it every time she wandered in. Improbably, the cartoon is a decent primer on ghostwriting: invisible work, chaotic collaborators, rival writers, and the art of speaking in…
GhostwritingThe people who can verify your stories are getting older, and some are already gone, the brother who was there, the roommate, the mother who knows the family history you never asked about. A memoir is not just your memory;…
MemoirsEvery person carries a whole world inside their head, decades of lessons, turning points, close calls, failures, and when they die, all of it vanishes. Your grandkids inherit photos and a few secondhand stories that shrink with each retelling, until…
GhostwritingYou made this resolution last January, and the one before, and by March you had stopped thinking about it both times. 2026 will be no different, and not for lack of discipline or a story worth telling. Writing a book…
Book MarketingReview bombing is the practice of flooding a product, service, or creator with coordinated negative reviews that have little to do with actual quality. Here is where it hits hardest, the structural conflicts that make it worse, how to spot…
Artificial IntelligenceA client swore they got better output from ChatGPT by cursing at it. I laughed, then got curious, then realized they were right, frustrated and blunt usually means specific, and specific beats polite every time. The lesson is not really…
PeopleIn this conversation I talk about turning a decade of belly dance photography into coloring books, four of them built from real performers instead of generic clip art. Shooting dancers since 2005 is exactly what makes them different. Here is…
Book MarketingBooks without reviews struggle to sell. It is that simple. As an author of more than 113 self-published books, I have watched books with a handful of honest reviews outsell books with none, regardless of quality. Here is how to…
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