GhostwritingThe hardest part of writing a book is not the writing; it is the deciding. People weigh it for months or years while the book stays a someday idea. Here are three clients who finally committed, a manager past a…
Book MarketingMost book marketing advice is not just unhelpful, it is destructive, sending writers off to dance on TikTok for years while their books gather digital dust. I have published 113+ books, sold 15,000 copies of one in three days, and…
Book MarketingOnce a month someone asks me how to hit the New York Times list, and I tell them the truth they do not want to hear: it barely matters. The lists are corrupt and largely irrelevant to what a book…
ObservancesA writer's reflection on Independence Day, from childhood fireworks to Big Bear Lake, from grandfather's POW camp to the freedom to build a career out of words
GhostwritingMost 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.
GhostwritingThere 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…
BusinessThe 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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WritingFor 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 CoachShould 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…
GhostwritingI 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…
FictionPlotters plan every scene and pantsers discover as they go. I write the first chapter, outline the book as a page of chapter headers, then write whichever chapters grab me and connect them together. Here's the ink blot method for…
ObservancesSeptember is National Library Card Signup Month. Why every writer needs a library card and how libraries shaped one author's career.
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