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Richard Lowe, The Writing King, sits at an unusual intersection: a professional ghostwriter who spent a full career in technology and cybersecurity. That combination is the thread of this conversation, why a writer who genuinely understands security is so valuable to the founders and experts trying to explain it.

It’s a side of the business most authors never think about until they hire a ghostwriter who gets the technical details wrong.

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In this episode

A ghostwriter who speaks fluent nerd

Richard’s line on this is the cleanest summary of his edge: most ghostwriters come from journalism or English literature backgrounds and speak fluent liberal arts, while he speaks fluent nerd. That isn’t a throwaway joke. When a cybersecurity founder or a technology executive wants a book, the usual ghostwriter has to have every concept explained and still tends to flatten or garble it. Richard already knows the territory, which is why he built ghostwriting for security and technology experts into a real specialty.

Two decades inside enterprise security

The fluency comes from doing the work. Across 33 years in technology, Richard served as Director of Computer Operations and Technical Services for a major retailer, where cybersecurity, disaster recovery, and the discipline of security policy and compliance were his responsibility, not a topic he read about. That means when a client talks about threats, controls, or incident response, he’s hearing it as someone who has actually defended a large environment.

On the cybersecurity bookshelf

The credentials show up in print, too. Richard served as a technical editor on a well-known cybersecurity book, helping make sure the security material was right, and he wrote his own guide to cybersecurity for families and home users, translating the same enterprise discipline into advice ordinary people can follow. For an author writing in this space, that track record is the difference between a book that experts respect and one they quietly dismiss.

Security advice for authors

The background also makes Richard a useful person to ask about protecting your own work. A manuscript is months or years of effort, and authors are surprisingly careless with it, so the basics matter: real backups, strong account security, and sensible device and phone security for the tools you write on. Losing the file, or the accounts around it, is an avoidable disaster.

Find Richard Lowe at TheWritingKing.com.

Common questions from this conversation

What makes Richard different from other ghostwriters?
His technical and cybersecurity fluency. As he puts it, most ghostwriters speak fluent liberal arts; he speaks fluent nerd, which lets him write accurately for security and technology experts without needing every concept explained from scratch.

What is his cybersecurity background?
He spent decades in enterprise technology, serving as Director of Computer Operations and Technical Services for a major retailer with cybersecurity, disaster recovery, and compliance under his responsibility, across 33 years in IT.

Can he ghostwrite a technical or security-focused book?
Yes, and that’s a particular strength. Because he understands the material, the finished book stays accurate and credible to expert readers rather than getting dumbed-down or subtly wrong.

Has he written his own cybersecurity book?
Yes. Alongside serving as a technical editor on a well-known cybersecurity book, he authored his own guide to cybersecurity for families and home users.

What should authors do to protect their work?
Cover the basics: keep real backups of your manuscript, secure the accounts your files live in, and practice sensible device and phone security on the tools you write with. Most lost work is avoidable.