When Your Own Memoir Sounds Like Bragging
September 19, 2026
He sold six companies and told me chapter eleven reads like a highlight reel. It does. That is the premise, and the problem is almost never too much achievement.
Category: Memoirs
Personal narratives and practical guidance on memoir writing. These articles explore how to capture life experiences in compelling narrative form, drawing from ghostwriting memoir projects including working with clients ranging from a ninety-two-year-old resort developer to professionals documenting their career journeys.
MemoirsThe Quotation Marks That Get Authors Sued
September 19, 2026
His father said you will never amount to anything. Or did he? Memory reconstructs dialogue, it does not record it, and the quotation marks are what turn a memory into a claim.
FictionWhen Your Memoir Should Be a Novel
September 19, 2026
Every chapter is addressed to four people who will never read it. That is when I suggest we write it as a novel, change the names, and move the industry.
MemoirsHow to Organize Decades of Memories Into a Memoir
September 15, 2026
Decades of experience only become a readable memoir with structure. How to choose an organizing principle, decide what stays, and shape raw memory into a book someone wants to read.
Behind the BookBehind the Book: Behind the Wire
September 1, 2026
My grandfather survived the camps and wrote it down after the war. I was seventeen, hiding from the family, when he asked whether I wanted to know about it. The book then waited decades.
BusinessThe IT Director Who Wrote 113+ Books
September 1, 2026
For 33 years I worked in enterprise technology, twenty of them running IT at Trader Joe's. Then I wrote 113+ books. Nobody predicts that line, and the pivot is the story. A crooked career is the book.
GhostwritingThe Book I Turn Down
September 1, 2026
Some books I turn down in the first conversation. The revenge memoir has a sound: I am a victim, I am a victim, I am a victim. It fails on the page and in court, and sometimes a better book…
Behind the BookBehind the Book: My Life in Crazytown
September 1, 2026
I was diagnosed AuADHD at sixty-four, and the diagnosis is the reason this book exists. One of the answers it supplied was that the traits my family spent nineteen years trying to suppress were the traits keeping me alive in…
GhostwritingThe Policy Memoir That Became a Night
August 31, 2026
A former government official hired me for a policy memoir. What the interviews found was the night he chose to save his family. The book someone describes is rarely the book that is there.
GhostwritingDoris and the Book for Her Daughter
August 26, 2026
Doris came to me in her late seventies, knowing the end was coming, and wanted her dreams written as a novel for one reader. The book made no money and worked perfectly.
MemoirsYbor City Is the Densest Square Mile of Material Here
August 21, 2026
Ybor City was a company town built by a cigar manufacturer in 1885, run through mutual aid societies that owned their own hospitals, and used by Jose Marti to fund a revolution. For a writer it is the densest square…
MemoirsThe Mound Under the Picnic Tables
August 21, 2026
There is a Tocobaga temple mound in a county park in Safety Harbor, and the park is named for the Frenchman who showed up in 1842. Which name ends up on the sign is the useful thing to think about.