Nonfiction

Thirty-nine books across eleven series, on the work, the craft, the household, and the arguments about what is being done to you.

39Books

11Series

113+Books authored

54+Ghostwritten

Explained, not gestured at.

How to get a book made and sold. How to survive and occasionally win inside a job. How to get ready for the bad day without organizing your life around it. And a running argument about the unseen forces working against you, and who is aiming them.

No inspirational filler. Each book is built to be used, grounded in thirty-three years of watching how things really work instead of how they are supposed to. I point people to The Little Red Book of Selling by Jeffrey Gitomer as the model. It’s the bible for salespeople: dense, big bang for the buck, with no fluff at all.

The Publishing Series

The Ghostwriting Advantage: How to Get Your Book Written for You

The Ghostwriting Advantage joins The Publishing Series on The Writing King. Before I wrote a word professionally, I photographed dancers

54+ books ghostwritten, 113+ published, backed by a 2024 study of 300+ authors. How ghostwriting works for executives and what it's worth.

Publish Your Book: The Complete Self-Publishing Guide

Publish Your Book joins The Publishing Series on The Writing King. Three months of writing, and then two weeks of zero sales

Stop wasting time researching publishing options.

The Day Your Website Died: Optimizing for AI Search

The Day Your Website Died joins The Publishing Series on The Writing King. I got good at ranking websites, then the traffic changed shape

The Day Your Website Died is my field guide to how AI search decides whose name it recommends, and what to fix on your own site so the answer is you.

Sell Your Books: Marketing Without the Hype

Sell Your Books joins The Publishing Series on The Writing King. Most book marketing advice is written by people who never marketed a book

113+ books published. Thousands in ads run. Launches that worked and launches that flopped.

Make a Living as a Self-Published Author: Build the Business Behind the Books

Make a Living as a Self-Published Author joins The Publishing Series on The Writing King. Authors have never had it better, and most still make nothing

Turn writing into income. Market research, publishing systems, platform building, scam avoidance.

The Working Life

My Job Sucks: Taking Back Control of Your Working Life

My Job Sucks joins The Working Life on The Writing King. You have been lied to your entire working life.

The old social contract is dead. Learn to spot layoffs early, decode corporate doublespeak, protect yourself legally and financially.

My Boss is Insane: And Other Workplace Nightmares

My Boss is Insane joins The Working Life on The Writing King. They all think they are the only one.

Practical survival guide for toxic workplaces. Documentation, escape funds, boss-proof skills, mental health, when to walk away.

Suddenly Unemployed: The Honest Guide to Job Searching

Suddenly Unemployed joins The Working Life on The Writing King. Welcome to the worst club you never wanted to join.

From a hiring manager who spent 20 years at Trader Joe's: what to do in the first 48 hours, how long your money will last, and the job search strategy most…

The Ethical Workplace: A Survival Guide for Modern Professionals

The Ethical Workplace joins The Working Life on The Writing King. The rules changed and nobody reissued the handbook.

Handle workplace ethics in the real world, AI tools, monitoring software, toxic bosses, DEI dilemmas. Case studies from Enron to Microsoft.

Street-Smart Management Wisdom: Management Without BS

Street-Smart Management Wisdom joins The Working Life on The Writing King. Most management books make you a student. This one makes you the hero.

Three accidental managers learn that real leadership comes from surviving organizational chaos.

The Gig Economy: Cutting Through the BS

The Gig Economy joins The Working Life on The Writing King. This book started as a money problem.

Twelve years of experiments, including $10,000 in affiliate marketing and $35,000 on eBay, showed me what worked and why most gig economy advice is complete garbage.

Working for Yourself

Focus on LinkedIn: The Complete Professional Playbook

Focus on LinkedIn joins Working for Yourself on The Writing King. Fifteen thousand copies in three days

Advanced LinkedIn strategies from a Senior LinkedIn Branding Expert. 300+ executive profiles optimized. Crisis management, scam protection, algorithm mastery.

Networking Without the BS: Building Relationships That Actually Hold

Networking Without the BS joins Working for Yourself on The Writing King. Twenty years in the industry and nobody to call

An introvert spent 20 years avoiding networking, then a Trader Joe's system failure left him with no one to call. This is what he learned the hard way.

Build a Profitable Consulting Practice: The Part of Consulting Nobody Teaches

Build a Profitable Consulting Practice joins Working for Yourself on The Writing King. Expertise does not pay the bills. Contracts do.

The essential guide to building a profitable consulting practice without the common mistakes that destroy most consulting businesses.

Selling on eBay: How the Platform Works Now

Selling on eBay joins Working for Yourself on The Writing King. That eBay is gone

eBay selling guide from someone who sold $35,000 in a single year and has run profitable businesses on the platform since 2003.

Enemies of You

Turn Off the TV, Get Off Your Ass, and Do Something: Getting Your Time Back From the Screens

Turn Off the TV, Get Off Your Ass, and Do Something joins Enemies of You on The Writing King. They say they are too busy. Then they watch Netflix for four hours.

Four hours of TV a day, no time for what matters. Richard Lowe's guide to crossing the line from consuming to contributing.

The Enshittification of America: How Good Businesses Were Taken Apart

The Enshittification of America joins Enemies of You on The Writing King. I never set out to write about the decline of American business

How private equity transformed American commerce from serving customers to extracting value. Thirteen industries documented. The playbook never changes.

The Death of Thinking: What Outsourcing Judgment Costs

The Death of Thinking joins Enemies of You on The Writing King. You do not feel a slow loss going

What happens when you consistently outsource your thinking to AI? Documents that pattern, its causes, costs, and what gets lost before you notice.

The Birth of the Augmented Human: What Goes Right When You Use AI Properly

The Birth of the Augmented Human joins Enemies of You on The Writing King. A force multiplier with no real precedent

The Death of Thinking mapped the problem. This book maps the other path, the practices that maintain cognitive capacity and what they build over time.

Everybody's Prejudiced: Including the Man Who Wrote This

Everybody's Prejudiced joins Enemies of You on The Writing King. I will put mine on the table before I ask about yours

Most people think prejudice is something other people have. This book takes that apart.

The Emasculation of America: What Bezmenov Described and Nobody Acted On

The Emasculation of America joins Enemies of You on The Writing King. In 1984 a KGB defector explained exactly what was being done

A national security argument. Documents the sixty-year Soviet operation to target American masculinity and degrade national capacity. Not a culture war book.

The Villainization of America: Why the Story We Tell Ourselves Matters

The Villainization of America joins Enemies of You on The Writing King. My grandfather spent three and a half years in a Japanese prison camp

America's failures are real. This documents the operation that uses them to build a permanent indictment, who built it, who funds it, what it costs.

Stuck in the Middle: Wars, Weapons, and the Next Thirty Years

Stuck in the Middle joins Enemies of You on The Writing King. The Iran war is the entry point.

Connects cognitive decline, civic collapse, military overreach, and geopolitical competition into one structural argument about the next thirty years.

Digital Self-Defense

Family Cybersecurity: Protecting the People Who Live in Your House

Family Cybersecurity joins Digital Self-Defense on The Writing King. The phone rang at 2:47 in the morning

Practical cybersecurity for non-technical families. Home networks, kids online, password management, scam prevention. From a 20-year Trader Joe's IT director.

Ridiculous Things People Actually Believe: A Tour of the Indefensible

Ridiculous Things People Actually Believe joins Digital Self-Defense on The Writing King. I am interested in the destination, not the journey

Flat Earth, bleach cures, reptilian overlords, birds aren't real.

Sins of the Internet: What the Platforms Did to Us

Sins of the Internet joins Digital Self-Defense on The Writing King. Somebody decided to build addiction into these platforms

26 chapters on how digital platforms exploit human psychology for profit. Attention economy, algorithmic manipulation, AI bias, and what to do about it.

Prepared, Not Paranoid

Real World Survival: Preparing Without Becoming a Prepper

Real World Survival joins Prepared, Not Paranoid on The Writing King. Christmas Day, 1986, and nobody knew where we were

Practical disaster preparedness from someone who lived through Northridge, Hurricane Milton, wildfires, and COVID. No bunkers. No paranoia. What works.

The Ultimate Bug Out Bag Guide: What Goes In, and Why

The Ultimate Bug Out Bag Guide joins Prepared, Not Paranoid on The Writing King. Seventy-two hours, and what you can carry

At 4:31 AM on January 17, 1994, the Northridge earthquake threw Richard Lowe out of bed into a damaged city with a missing son.

Don't Live in Fear: The Walls You Built and How to Get Past Them

Don't Live in Fear joins Prepared, Not Paranoid on The Writing King. I lost a job I wanted because I was too chicken to talk to people

The fence is in the dog.

Real Life, Handled

Party Planning for Introverts: Hosting Without Being Drained by It

Party Planning for Introverts joins Real Life, Handled on The Writing King. The skills most parties are missing are introvert skills

Hosting guide for introverts who love bringing people together but hate traditional party planning advice.

The Dead Don't Need Stuff: Decluttering Without Destroying What Matters

The Dead Don't Need Stuff joins Real Life, Handled on The Writing King. I am not a hoarder. I am a collector. Most advice misses the difference.

Forty-five years of decluttering lessons from a collector. $35,000 eBay purge. Seven major campaigns.

The Relationship BULLSHIT Men Fall For: What Thirty Years Taught Me

The Relationship BULLSHIT Men Fall For joins Real Life, Handled on The Writing King. I am not an expert. I am a man who tried everything and kept notes.

26 predictable relationship patterns, why red pill and feminist advice both fail, and how to recognize gaslighting, narcissism, and toxic dynamics, from…

The ADHD Series

The ADHD Marketer: Marketing With the Brain You Have

The ADHD Marketer joins The ADHD Series on The Writing King. The problem was using somebody else’s operating system.

25 chapters for neurodivergent marketers. ADHD hyperfocus, autistic systems thinking, introvert strategies, structures that work with your brain, not…

The ADHD Christian: Faith With a Brain That Will Not Sit Still

The ADHD Christian joins The ADHD Series on The Writing King. Fourteen years of hard wooden pews and a brain with other plans

Written by someone who left church at 14 due to ADHD struggles.

Lived

Behind the Wire: The True Story of Frank Hoeffer II, Prisoner of War

Behind the Wire joins Lived on The Writing King. My grandfather dicing onions, straight as an arrow

The true story of a Navy cook captured at Corregidor, 1942. Three years and four months as a Japanese POW. Written from memory by his grandson at age 65.