GhostwritingPersonal historians, oral historians, biographers and memoir ghostwriters all help record a life, and each delivers something different. Ask whose voice the book will be in, whose name goes on it, and whether you'll get a book or a box…
GhostwritingHe 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.
MemoirsHis 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.
FictionEvery 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.
MemoirsDecades 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.
MemoirsSona Movsesian's book about thirteen years as Conan O'Brien's assistant is a comedy bit stretched to full length, but it's smarter than it sounds. Under the jokes about napping at work and watching television on the clock sits a real…
MemoirsPetrow started this book as a list of what his parents were doing wrong. Then they died while he was writing it, and the whole thing changed, the tone, the point, everything. By the end, he's writing instructions to himself…
Critical ThinkingJoe Pfeifer was a few blocks away on a gas call when the first plane flew over him into the North Tower, and he ran the initial response from the lobby with no working radios and no way to know…
MemoirsMick Foley's wrestling memoir became a bestseller because he wrote it himself, longhand, refusing the ghostwriter the publisher offered. The decision shaped everything: his voice, his digressions, his willingness to report hard truths without softening them. It's the clearest proof…
MemoirsOn the evening of 11 September 2001 I wrote about what I had watched that day, and never revised it. Twenty-five years later, some of it holds up and some of it is wrong in ways that took years to…
Behind the BookMy 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.
BusinessFor 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.
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