You Have More Material Than You Think. You Are Just Not Counting It.
June 6, 2026
Almost everybody who tells me they have no stories tells me three in the next ten minutes. They do not count them because nothing dramatic happened.
Category: Memoirs (Page 2)
GhostwritingThe acquisition memoir for founders who sold
May 28, 2026
Founders who sold their company are sitting on the most underused authority book in the market. The acquisition memoir does commercial work no other format can. Here is what to include, what your deal documents legally prevent you from saying,…
GhostwritingWriting about your former employer without getting sued
May 28, 2026
Memoir, business book, or exposé, if your manuscript touches your time at a former employer, you have to reckon with NDAs, non-disparagement clauses, trade secrets, and defamation. Here is what your old NDA actually restricts, what non-disparagement really prevents, what…
GhostwritingIsn’t using a ghostwriter dishonest?
May 28, 2026
Ghostwriting has been mainstream for two thousand years. Caesar had help. Every president writes their memoirs with a ghostwriter. Most major business books on your shelf were ghostwritten or heavily edited. So the ethical question is not whether someone helped,…
GhostwritingIs my life interesting enough for a memoir? Probably yes, and here’s the test
May 28, 2026
Is my life interesting enough for a memoir is the most common question I hear, and the framing is almost always wrong. Memoirs do not win on dramatic biography; they win on a specific voice telling a specific story honestly.…
GhostwritingMemoir, autobiography, and biography: which one are you actually writing?
May 28, 2026
Memoir, autobiography, and biography get tossed around as synonyms, but they are different books with different structures, reader expectations, and markets, and the wrong label produces one that disappoints everyone who opens it. Here is how to tell which one…
GhostwritingWriting about family in a memoir without a lawsuit or a family rupture
May 28, 2026
Writing about family is the most legally and personally fraught part of a memoir, and the worry stalls more projects than anything else. The legal exposure is real but narrower than most authors fear, and the relational side has techniques…
GhostwritingHow to hire a memoir ghostwriter, and what to look for that most articles don’t mention
May 28, 2026
Hiring a memoir ghostwriter is not the same as hiring a business-book one, and most articles miss the difference. Memoir needs emotional safety in the interviews, a personal instead of professional voice register, and a writer who has actually done…
GhostwritingThe all-in cost of a ghostwritten book, beyond the writer’s fee
May 28, 2026
The writer's fee is the biggest line item in a ghostwritten book, but far from the only one. A real budget folds in editing, design, publishing, and the optional-but-valuable extras, proposal, marketing, audio. Authors who plan only for the fee…
GhostwritingWhy a Technical Person Needs a Ghostwriter Who Gets Tech
May 28, 2026
If you are technical and weighing a memoir, your biggest fear is that a ghostwriter will not understand your world and will flatten your career into something unrecognizable. That fear is correct, most will. The fix is one who actually…
GhostwritingTen Skilled Trades Where the Knowledge Is Dying in This Generation
May 27, 2026
Skilled trades hold knowledge that does not move through textbooks, certifications, or YouTube, the kind that takes thirty years of apprenticeship to build and dies in a single generation when the master retires silent. Here are ten trades, master electricians,…
GhostwritingPastor Davis and the Book He Had Been Avoiding for Seven Years
May 27, 2026
Faith leaders face a question other professionals do not: is making money from a book at odds with the mission, and is using a ghostwriter honest? This is a short parable about Pastor Davis, who avoided the book he was…