The Hypervigilance That Ruined My Childhood Made My Career
The systematic thinking I built to predict my father's explosions turned out to be the same thinking that reads a failing system. Nobody warned me the skill would transfer.
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Behind the BookI Hid in the Bedroom at My Own Party. It Was Going Fine.
Out of ice, wine on the carpet, and me having a quiet breakdown in the bedroom. The party was going perfectly well. I was measuring it wrong.
Behind the BookI Set Out to Understand What I Was Watching on YouTube
Comment sections full of people who sounded like they were preparing for a war nobody had formally declared. The view counts were too high for it to be fringe.
GhostwritingHow I Became a Writer: The Real Story
I did not set out to be a writer. I set out to understand my grandfather, and the writing followed, more than forty years and 113+ books ago. The path was never a straight line. Here is the real story…
PeopleCatastrophizing and Writers: A Personal Account
A client goes quiet for two days and my brain writes the entire catastrophe: he hated the chapter, he is firing me, the refund, the career-ending review. From he hasn't emailed to professional ruin in under an hour. If that…
GhostwritingRichard Lowe: The Writing King: From Book Lover to 54-Book Ghostwriter
The more you read, the more you know, Dr. Seuss told children, and Richard Lowe built a whole career on the line. From a kid haunting libraries to a 20-year tech career at Trader Joe's to 54+ ghostwritten books and…
Book Coach$15,000 in His First Month of Blogging. Richard Lowe’s Journey [Interview]
One month after my blog went live, it landed me a $15,000 ghostwriting project, and that was the moment I understood what a blog could do for a service business. This interview, updated for current pricing, tells the full story…
GhostwritingFrom Trader Joe’s to Ghostwriter: Richard Lowe’s Story
In late 2013 I walked away from twenty years as Director of Computer Operations at Trader Joe's, overworked and trading my health for a job that had stopped giving back. I had savings and a dream I had carried since…
PeopleAuthor Interview With Richard Lowe | Fiona McVie
In this conversation with Fiona Mcvie, I trace the whole path: where I came from, how a career got built on words, and the unglamorous realities of professional writing and ghostwriting. Updated for current numbers, it is the full story…
Book CoachWriting a Memoir from Journals, Letters, and Records
In his nineties I sat with my grandfather and his lifetime of journals to write his memoir, and discovered the story I grew up on, that he survived Bataan, was wrong; the truth was a march through Manila, no less…
CybersecurityHow I Became a Ghostwriter: From a WWII Diary to 54+ Books
At seventeen, my grandfather handed me his World War II diary and asked me to turn it into a book. He had served on the USS Panay and survived being marched through Manila as a prisoner. That first project became…
BusinessThe Eight Words That Killed My Million-Dollar Presentation
Weeks of prep, technical diagrams, airtight projections, a proposal to save millions, and halfway through my first slide the CEO raised a hand and ended it in eight words. I knew the systems cold and lost the room anyway. The…