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A reader's honest tribute to Robert Heinlein. Stranger in a Strange Land found me at twelve, and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is the one I've reread a dozen times.
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A reader's tribute to Isaac Asimov, author of I, Robot and Foundation, who shaped my love of science fiction from age eight. Nearly 500 books, one doorway in.
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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…
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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…
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Business and leadership books, technology books, franchise guides, memoirs and fiction: the range of 54+ ghostwritten books, with anonymized case studies, and what Richard Lowe won't write.
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…
GhostwritingWhat Did 33 Years in IT Teach Me About Writing Books?
Before I wrote books for a living, I spent 33 years in enterprise technology. What those years taught me that I use on every ghostwritten book: translating experts, running long projects, controlling scope, keeping confidences and staying calm.
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…
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…
People10 Critical Lessons on Grammar and Spelling from Word Crimes
A misplaced comma can turn a sentence into something you never meant. Weird Al's Word Crimes made the most common mistakes catchy, but the real cost is trust: sloppy mechanics make readers quietly doubt you. Here are ten grammar and…
BusinessWhy I Love Eliances: The Networking Group That Actually Works
Most networking groups are stale coffee and a parade of elevator pitches, everyone selling, nobody listening, a wasted morning in a hotel conference room. Eliances is the rare exception, and after nine months I still look forward to Tuesdays because…