When a Client Thinks the Ghostwriter Used AI
September 19, 2026
A publisher pulled a novel over work done by someone the author hired. If you have paid a writer and you are uneasy, ask for the trail instead of the score.
Category: Publishing
Guest appearances and interviews on publishing: self-publishing strategy, book launches, distribution, and what actually happens between finished manuscript and published book.
GhostwritingMonthly or Milestone: How Ghostwriting Gets Billed
September 19, 2026
Most authors do not know there is a choice. The billing model you agree to decides what happens when you travel for three weeks or the business has a bad quarter.
MemoirsThe Quotation Marks That Get Authors Sued
September 19, 2026
His 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.
GhostwritingThe One-Hour Call Before I Quote Your Book
September 19, 2026
Eight months is what you are buying, and almost none of it is writing. Nobody assesses that from an email thread, which is why the call is not a formality.
PublishingWhat Belongs on a Copyright Page
September 19, 2026
Readers never look at it. Librarians and cataloguers do, and if the information is not there they stop reading and move on. You never find out.
MemoirsHow to Organize Decades of Memories Into a Memoir
September 15, 2026
Decades 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.
Book MarketingWhy Amazon KDP Sucks: They Terminated My Account Overnight
September 9, 2026
Amazon terminated my KDP account overnight because two books had the same content. One of them was unpublished, by me, that afternoon, following Amazon's own rules for changing a subtitle. No warning, no human, no appeal I could find. This…
Book MarketingIngramSpark: How I Publish Now and Why
September 9, 2026
IngramSpark does hardcover, reaches the catalog libraries and bookstores order from, lets you set your own margin over a printing base price, and since BookBuilder arrived you no longer have to produce a wraparound cover PDF yourself. It pairs with…
Book MarketingSubstack Is Not Collapsing. The Promise Was.
September 6, 2026
A journalist put his real Substack and YouTube numbers on screen and called it a collapse. The platform is fine. What broke is the promise that reader subscriptions could replace a salary, and the arithmetic says it was never going…
Artificial IntelligenceAI Detection Cannot Be Evidence, and Publishing Is Using It That Way
September 4, 2026
An author can now lose a publishing contract because a stranger uploaded their manuscript to a website and got a number back. Here is why those numbers cannot bear the weight being put on them, and what a writer should…
Behind the BookBehind the Book: Publish Your Book
September 2, 2026
I clicked Publish on my first book in 2016 and watched nothing happen for two weeks. Zero sales. I had assumed writing the book was the hard part, which is the assumption every new author makes.
Behind the BookBehind the Book: Sell Your Books
September 2, 2026
I quit in 2013, moved to Florida, and decided I would be a professional writer. My first book sold about a dozen copies. The book was fine. The waiting was the problem.