GhostwritingFebruary 12, 2026
Most people picture a book as a product you sell. In business, a book is a tool you use, and the royalties are the least interesting thing about it. The real value is credibility, visibility, and turning strangers into clients.
GhostwritingFebruary 12, 2026
There is a bottle of cat pills on my counter that my fifteen-pound tabby would rather die than swallow, and a three-hundred-page manuscript on my desk that needs to become a book. The two have far more in common than…
BusinessFebruary 12, 2026
The coaching industry has a problem it would rather you not notice: successful clients stop paying. A consultant with a published book, a real reputation, and inbound leads has no use for a coach telling them to provide value, they…
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WritingFebruary 12, 2026
For years I would not submit my fiction anywhere, not because the work was not ready but because the thought of someone judging it triggered a physical reaction I could not reason past. My chest would tighten and I would…
Book CoachFebruary 12, 2026
Should the memoir run chronologically, circle a single theme, or jump across time? Nearly every memoir project hits this wall, a lifetime of material and no obvious shape, and the wrong choice can turn a remarkable life into a book…
GhostwritingFebruary 12, 2026
I have written two YA novels about cyberbullying, one for a client and one my own. Writing for young readers about something so real forced a different set of skills than adult fiction ever did, and it made me a…
FictionFebruary 12, 2026
Plotters plan every scene; pantsers discover as they go; both produce hits and failures. I land in the middle, outlining the headers, writing the climax first, then improvising the rest. What matters is finishing with a structure that holds. Here…
ObservancesFebruary 11, 2026
September is National Library Card Signup Month. Why every writer needs a library card and how libraries shaped one author's career.
TechnologyFebruary 11, 2026
Three hours arguing with a Commodore 64 about where to put a brass lantern, and I was not mad, I was impressed: Zork understood English, remembered my moves, and responded like it was alive. Text adventures were collaborative fiction; SimCity…
ObservancesFebruary 11, 2026
A ghostwriter with 54 completed projects and 113+ published books on what the profession looks like from the inside. March 1-7 is National Ghostwriters Week.
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…
FictionFebruary 11, 2026
Choosing a point of view feels easy until you are 150 pages in and realize you have been head-hopping, or describing things your narrator could never see. POV consistency breaks at novel length precisely because it looks trivial. Here is…
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