GhostwritingJune 1, 2026
The fear was that clients would use AI to replace ghostwriters. The opposite is happening: clients arrive already using AI to gather material, check facts, and pressure-test the draft, and they expect a writer fluent in the same tools. It…
Behind the BookJune 1, 2026
Not asking permission, just telling him I would be out of range for a weekend. He said if I did not call back within fifteen minutes of a page, I was fired.
Thought LeadershipMay 30, 2026
Most nonfiction hands the reader a conclusion and then explains it. The books people remember hand them the evidence and let them arrive.
Behind the BookMay 29, 2026
I went looking for a method and found several. None of them made me comfortable in a room with a woman in it. A camera did that, years later, entirely by accident.
GhostwritingMay 28, 2026
Authority experts watch peers crank out AI books in weeks and panic that the fast competitor will grab the speaking gigs and consulting deals first. But speed-to-market was never the moat in authority publishing. Here is what actually wins, why…
GhostwritingMay 28, 2026
Co-author and ghostwriter are not the same deal dressed differently; they are structurally different agreements with different IP outcomes, revenue splits, and effects on a book's commercial life, and choosing wrong locks you in for years. Here is how to…
GhostwritingMay 28, 2026
Sometimes the ghostwriter relationship fails, wrong voice, stalled pace, broken communication, lost trust, and a mid-project firing, while rare, happens. Here is how to tell a genuinely broken relationship from a rough patch, how to extract the work you have…
GhostwritingMay 28, 2026
The manuscript landed and the voice is wrong, the argument is yours, the structure is yours, but the prose reads like a stranger wrote it. Here is why that happens, the four root causes to diagnose before you react, and…
GhostwritingMay 28, 2026
Voice mismatch is the number-one reason ghostwriting projects fail, and the questions you ask before signing decide whether the manuscript sounds like you when it lands. Here are ten questions focused narrowly on voice and style, each built to reveal…
GhostwritingMay 28, 2026
ACX, Findaway, and Spotify all rewrote their AI-narration rules in the past 18 months, and the rules are still moving. Here is what each platform actually permits in 2026, when AI narration is the right call for an authority book,…
GhostwritingMay 28, 2026
The 50/50 co-author split is the lazy default and rarely correct. Four variables decide the right one: who brings the audience, who brings the substance, who does the writing, who runs the launch. Here is the math behind 50/50, 60/40,…
GhostwritingMay 28, 2026
The connective sections of a book, chapter introductions, scene transitions, the setup paragraphs that move a reader from one idea to the next, are the natural zone for AI drafting: no specific voice, predictable structure, and real writer hours when…
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