GhostwritingMost of the books I ghostwrite are serious work, memoirs and business books, but plenty of clients are funny in person and want the page to sound like them. Borrowing someone else's comic timing turns out to be brutally hard.…
Book MarketingAsk what shaped my writing and people expect a stack of craft books; they get 1970s science fiction and a couple of rule-breaking memoirs instead. Rama taught me plot, Riverworld character, Schwarzenegger autobiography, Foley humility. After 54+ ghostwritten books, these…
Book MarketingMost failed manuscripts are not badly written; they are badly built. The prose is fine and the ideas are interesting, but the thing wanders, doubles back, and buries its best material until the reader quits around page sixty. Structure separates…
MemoirsJuly 20, 1969: eight years old, black-and-white TV, Walter Cronkite's voice cracking as the Eagle touched down. I did not fully understand it, but I understood people were on the moon. That night lit a lifelong obsession with space and…
Critical ThinkingOn 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…
MemoirsMost 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…
MemoirsA 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…
GhostwritingIn Letters from Iwo Jima, a soldier who knows he will die sits in a cave under artillery and writes to his mother, not about honor or strategy, but about missing her cooking. That is what the best executive books…
GhostwritingTwo months after my wife died, I stood in the most spectacular wildflower bloom in Joshua Tree's recorded history, 45, newly widowed, and lost. I could have reached for medication or given up in a chair. Instead the desert my…
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…
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…
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