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.
BusinessSeptember 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.
GhostwritingSeptember 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 BookSeptember 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…
GhostwritingAugust 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.
GhostwritingAugust 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.
MemoirsAugust 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…
MemoirsAugust 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.
MemoirsAugust 21, 2026
Pinellas County is full of people who did something substantial somewhere else and then moved here, and almost none of them have written it down. The reasons are always the same three, and all three are wrong.
Behind the BookJuly 13, 2026
You want to know about the war, he said, making that familiar sucking sound through his teeth. It didn't start with Pearl Harbor for me.
GhostwritingJuly 7, 2026
The unspoken fear behind every delayed memoir: sitting across from a stranger and telling the true version. What the interviews actually feel like, what you control, and what happens to the hard parts.
GhostwritingJuly 7, 2026
Underneath the price and time objections sits the quiet one: is my story even worth a book? The honest evaluation criteria, the false modesty trap, and the rare cases where the answer is no.
GhostwritingJune 15, 2026
None of these felt like stories when they happened. A brick in a doorway. A microwave on the wrong network. Each one ended up carrying a chapter.
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