GhostwritingFebruary 12, 2026
Most people have never seen a ghostwriting agreement, so the Statement of Work feels like a black box. It should not. Before I write a word, this document settles deliverables, payments, ownership, scope changes, and what happens if things go…
Book MarketingFebruary 12, 2026
Every client begins with a vague feeling that there is a book in them somewhere, and no idea what it looks like, and that uncertainty is completely normal. Not one of my 54+ books arrived as a finished concept; each…
MemoirsFebruary 12, 2026
At seventeen I wrote my first memoir, my grandfather's, a Navy cook captured at Corregidor who survived the POW camps and a march through Manila. The family's version was secondhand and partly wrong, so I interviewed him for dozens of…
Book MarketingFebruary 12, 2026
Once a month someone asks me how to hit the New York Times list, and I tell them the truth they do not want to hear: it barely matters. The lists are corrupt and largely irrelevant to what a book…
Book MarketingFebruary 12, 2026
For two decades I ran computer operations at Trader Joe's, came home drained, and had nothing left for the writing I wanted to do. I had the skills and the ideas but not the bandwidth. Making a living from self-publishing…
Book MarketingFebruary 12, 2026
The moment you publish, your book is global, Amazon hits a dozen marketplaces, ebooks land instantly, print-on-demand ships worldwide, and yet most authors quietly cap their own reach with avoidable mistakes. Having ghostwritten for clients across six countries, I have…
Book MarketingFebruary 12, 2026
Most authors picture readers in their own country and stop there, which is thinking far too small. An English book can reach every English-speaking market, and with translation, every market on earth, and the infrastructure has never been more accessible.…
GhostwritingFebruary 11, 2026
A book proposal is not a summary of your book; it is a business case arguing that the book will sell, the readers are real, and you are the one to write it, the document that lands a traditional deal.…
Book MarketingFebruary 11, 2026
I once wrote 25,000 words for $1,000 at a ghostwriting shop. Now a single book project runs $50,000 or more. In this interview I walk through exactly how that shift happened, from the confidence to raise rates to the business…
Book MarketingFebruary 11, 2026
Most book marketing advice comes from people who sell marketing courses, not people who have sold books. Build a list, run ads, get on BookBub: it sounds reasonable and skips the part that matters. After 113+ books, here is what…
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Book MarketingFebruary 11, 2026
Most of my books sit at four and five stars, but every author eventually meets the brutal one-star takedown. The first one stings; it does not have to derail you. After 113+ books, here is how I read a bad…
GhostwritingFebruary 11, 2026
Ghostwriting has always been legal; no country prohibits one person writing what another signs. The interesting question is the ethical one, and that gets answered in the agreement. Here is how contracts, copyright transfer, and professional standards protect both parties…
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