What 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.
Category: Writing
Craft articles covering the fundamentals of effective writing, from sentence-level technique to manuscript-level structure. Draws from experience as a professional ghostwriter with 54 books and a fiction author with dozens of novels, providing practical instruction grounded in daily professional writing practice.
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.
GhostwritingWhy Fiverr Sucks for Ghostwriting: The Buyer’s Side
September 9, 2026
You can buy a ghostwritten book on Fiverr for a few hundred dollars. The arithmetic of what that buys is not a secret and not a matter of opinion, and it explains what arrives. This is the buyer's side, written…
WritingBooks to Give a Writer
September 9, 2026
There are four books that get given to writers, and anyone who has been writing for more than a year owns all four. This is a guide to what to give instead, organized by what the person is struggling with…
WritingThe Beach Read Argument
September 9, 2026
Calling a book a beach read is usually a way of praising it while making clear you are not taking it seriously. The assumption underneath is that easy reading means easy writing, and that assumption is exactly backwards.
WritingWhy It’s a Wonderful Life Failed on Release
September 9, 2026
It's a Wonderful Life lost money, disappointed its studio, ended the production company its director had staked everything on, and was flagged by the FBI as possible communist propaganda. It became a Christmas institution decades later because a clerk failed…
WritingWhat to Read in Spring
September 9, 2026
Spring is the best season for difficult books and almost nobody uses it that way. The light is long, the energy is back, nothing is competing, and the hard book you keep postponing has a better chance in April than…
WritingWhat to Read in Summer
September 9, 2026
Summer is the only season most people get a genuinely uninterrupted stretch of days, and that makes it the season for the long book. A nine-hundred-page novel needs consecutive days more than it needs concentration, and nothing else in the…
ObservancesA Christmas Carol Day: December 19
September 9, 2026
A Christmas Carol was published on 19 December 1843, sold out in five days, and made its author almost nothing because he had paid for it himself and specified expensive materials. He then sued a publisher who pirated it, won…
ObservancesWalt Whitman Day: The Book He Kept Rewriting
September 9, 2026
Whitman self-published Leaves of Grass in 1855 with no author name on the cover, set some of the type himself, wrote anonymous reviews praising his own book, and then revised it for the next thirty-seven years across six editions. He…
ObservancesWhy Easter Moves
September 9, 2026
Easter can fall anywhere across a thirty-five day window, and the rule that decides it involves a fictional moon. The calculation occupied European mathematics for centuries, it is the reason Orthodox and Western Easter usually differ, and it causes genuine…
ObservancesUrsula K. Le Guin Day: The Anthropologist’s Method
September 9, 2026
Le Guin grew up in a house of anthropologists and applied their central question to places that did not exist: not what a society has, but why it arranged itself that way. That order of operations is why her worlds…