CybersecurityFebruary 10, 2026
Coffee in hand, you open an email demanding $500 in Bitcoin to unlock your photos, tax records, and three-year novel, and yesterday's urgent delivery notice was the invitation. It happens thousands of times a day, and the habits that stop…
FictionFebruary 10, 2026
My first short story was a wizard tournament from a tabletop game, written in junior high and mailed to a gaming magazine, which returned it buried in an editor's notes. I never sold it, but that envelope taught me more…
FictionFebruary 10, 2026
The girl boss has no flaws, no arc, and never earns a thing, and she is everywhere, and she is boring. Rey earns nothing; Ripley, Sarah Connor, and Lisbeth Salander are unforgettable. The difference is consequences, flaws, and craft. The…
FictionFebruary 10, 2026
Some books drag you forward by sheer what-happens-next; others hold you because the characters feel like people you know. Plot-driven and character-driven are the two basic engines, and which you pick shapes the whole reading experience. Here are the real…
Critical ThinkingFebruary 10, 2026
The toughest echo chamber to leave is the one you were born into, because when your beliefs are stitched into your traditions, holidays, and family group chat, questioning them does not feel like curiosity, it feels like betrayal. Saying what…
WritingFebruary 10, 2026
A professor once told me to quit, that I was a crappy writer, and I believed him for thirty years before writing professionally at all. Since then: 54+ ghostwritten books, 113+ published. His judgment aged badly, but the cost was…
CybersecurityFebruary 10, 2026
Your phone holds your banking apps, your private photos, and the keys to your whole online life, and most writers guard it with nothing. One careless gap, a missing PIN, a reused password, turns a misplaced phone into a genuine…
GhostwritingFebruary 10, 2026
North America's comic and graphic novel market tops $2 billion a year, and creators are noticing it reaches readers traditional books never will. But a comic script is not prose, it needs visual pacing, tight dialogue, panel structure, and most…
FictionFebruary 10, 2026
One reviewer abandoned a historical novelist forever over a single anachronism: a spinning wheel in 13th-century England. One wrong object in one character's hands, and trust evaporated. While writing a novel about the Roman civil war between Vespasian and Vitellius,…
Artificial IntelligenceFebruary 10, 2026
Most people use AI writing tools wrong: vague prompts, vague output. A prompt is an instruction, and its quality decides the output's quality. Here are the five elements of a good prompt, ten you can copy, and what to do…
GhostwritingFebruary 10, 2026
Moehringer moved to Las Vegas for two years and logged 250 hours with Andre Agassi to write Open, a memoir that aired the hatred of tennis, the abusive father, the drug use, everything a sanitized celebrity book leaves out. The…
WritingFebruary 10, 2026
The most powerful writing tool I ever used cost me nothing: a small group of writers meeting regularly to read each other's work and tell the truth about it. I started one for science fiction through Meetup and learned what…
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