TechnologyThree 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…
ObservancesA 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 MarketingI once wrote 25,000 words for $1,000 at a ghostwriting shop. In this interview I walk through how I went from there to a full-time ghostwriting practice, from the confidence to raise rates to the business decisions that made it…
FictionChoosing 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…
ObservancesA publisher of 20 coloring books on what makes them work, why adults need them, and how real dancers became line art.
FictionI'm stressed about tomorrow. Did you know Mongolia has under three million people? That sideways reply is a non sequitur, and what reads as awkward in real life becomes a precision tool in fiction. A character who dodges the obvious…
BusinessI was raised never to burn bridges, so for 33 years I stayed in jobs long past the point I should have left, enduring toxic bosses to protect contacts I would never use. When I finally walked, almost no one…
GhostwritingRight now someone is watching a webinar promising a six-figure ghostwriting career, run by a presenter who got rich selling courses, not writing books, and the certification costs thousands. After 54+ client books and 113+ of my own, I can…
FictionFill out the worksheet, assign the eye color and the favorite food, list three strengths and three weaknesses, and you get a character who is technically complete and feels like small talk with a stranger. Details are not the problem;…
Writing113+ books, 54+ ghostwriting projects, 12,000 words on a good day, and still some mornings a voice says I have no idea what I'm doing. It has been there through every book, including one that raised $30 million for a…
BusinessRomance is the single largest category in commercial fiction, bigger than mystery and thriller combined, and it rewards writers who understand what readers actually want instead of what writers assume they want. Most advice misses that entirely. Here is what…
ObservancesThanksgiving hands a writer everything at once: gratitude and guilt, warmth and dysfunction, food, family, and a tangle of uncomfortable history. It has fueled stories since long before it was a national holiday. Here is how books and movies have…
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