Star Trek Day: What the Original Series Taught Me About Storytelling
February 9, 2026
A lifelong Star Trek fan with over 200 hardcover Trek novels on what the original series got right about storytelling that most of its successors missed.
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WritingWriting Personalities: Meet Catfood the Hamster
February 9, 2026
I wanted a contemplative little studio philosopher and got Sylvia Plath in hamster form, waking at 6:47 AM sharp with an existential crisis disguised as a to-do list. Catfood the neurotic hamster turned out to be a perfect lens on…
MemoirsI Watched the Moon Landing at Eight Years Old. It Changed Everything I Read and Wrote.
February 9, 2026
July 20, 1969: eight years old, black-and-white TV, Walter Cronkite's voice cracking as the Eagle touched down. I did not fully understand it, but I understood people were on the moon. That night lit a lifelong obsession with space and…
Fiction10 Excellent Reasons the Anti-Hero Captures Our Hearts
February 9, 2026
Spotless heroes take the high road; anti-heroes lie, scheme, and compromise, and somehow we love them more. Their flaws make them feel real in a way the virtuous rarely do. Here are ten reasons the anti-hero grips us, drawn from…
GhostwritingAdvantages of a Ghostwritten Book: Why Hire a Ghostwriter
February 9, 2026
Most people who set out to write a book never finish; the ones who hire a professional do. That is the real advantage of a ghostwritten book, and after 54+ projects I can name the rest with specifics, from venture…
MemoirsHow to Write Your Memoir: Where to Start
February 9, 2026
Most memoir attempts collapse in the middle, not from weak material but because the writer started before knowing what the book was actually about. Across 54+ memoirs, every one began not with writing but with discovery, hours of interviews finding…
FictionDune Film Adaptation: Fascinating Differences Between Denis Villeneuve’s Film and the Book
February 9, 2026
Villeneuve's Dune is gorgeous and largely faithful, but faithful is not the same as identical, and the gaps are where the real choices live, the cut dinner party, the vanished Alia, a dozen others. Some sharpened the story; some dulled…
PoliticsHeroes, Villains, and You. The Fictional Narratives That Control Elections
February 9, 2026
An election is not a policy debate; it is a story, with the candidate cast as hero or villain and the voter deciding how it ends. Every modern campaign ran on a narrative, not a platform, nostalgia, urgency, a symbol…
WritingThe Grammar Nazi: What the Pedants Get Wrong
February 9, 2026
Someone posts a stray apostrophe and a self-appointed enforcer arrives with more smugness than the error earned. But grammar correction is about context, and the corrector usually misses the point.
GhostwritingThe $35K Ghostwriting Scam That Almost Fooled Me (And How It Could Fool You)
February 9, 2026
It looked like a dream inquiry: a businessman with fifty years of experience, a $35K budget, a six-month timeline, real-looking credentials, all of it engineered to harvest free writing samples through a fake project. It nearly worked on me. Here…
BusinessWriting Science Fiction: World-Building, Characters, and Getting Published
February 9, 2026
Science fiction hands you more freedom than any genre: invent worlds, technologies, even physics, then watch what they do to the people inside them. That freedom is also the trap, since a world without discipline collapses into noise. Here is…
Book MarketingQR Codes for Authors 2026: Marketing Guide + Security Tips
February 9, 2026
Those black-and-white squares hold up to 4,296 characters and work with any phone camera, making QR codes a wildly underused bridge from your printed book to email lists, bonus content, and sales, and a real security risk if you are…