The Library
Nonfiction
Thirty-nine books across eleven series, on the work, the craft, the household, and the arguments about what is being done to you.
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 forces quietly 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.
The Publishing Series
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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.
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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. This comprehensive guide covers every major publishing path available to authors today, from self-publishing
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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 the record of what happened when an AI engine started sending Richard Lowe paying clients before he had done anything deliberate
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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. This is what book marketing looks like, from someone who lived bot
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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. From an author who left corporate at 53 and published 113+ b
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The Working Life
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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. From someone who saw bot
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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. From someone who lived it for
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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 pe
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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.
Navigate workplace ethics in the real world, AI tools, monitoring software, toxic bosses, DEI dilemmas. Case studies from Enron to Microsoft. Practical framew
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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, not following business school theories.
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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.
$10,000 in affiliate marketing. $35,000 on eBay. Twelve years of experiments. Here's what worked, and why most gig economy advice is complete garbage.
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Working for Yourself
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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.
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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.
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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. What works in today's corporat
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Enemies of You
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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.
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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.
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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. Richard Lowe puts his own biases on the table first, then shows that t
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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.
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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.
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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 not the subject. It is the entry point.
Connects cognitive decline, civic collapse, military overreach, and geopolitical competition into one structural argument about the next thirty years.
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Digital Self-Defense
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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.
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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. A technology veteran with 45 years of experience catalogs humanity's most creative flights f
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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.
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Prepared, Not Paranoid
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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.
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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. Four decades of disasters late
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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 isn't in the yard. It's in the dog. The job you won't leave, the raise you won't ask for, the dream you filed under too late, you got shocked once,
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Real Life, Handled
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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. Real-world tested from pirate shops to botanic gard
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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, not a minimalist. $35,000 eBay purge. Seven major campaigns. Psychology, room-by-room strategy, and
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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 someo
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The ADHD Series
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The ADHD Marketer: Marketing With the Brain You Have
The ADHD Marketer joins The ADHD Series on The Writing King. The problem was never my brain. It was using somebody else's operating system.
25 chapters for neurodivergent marketers. ADHD hyperfocus, autistic systems thinking, introvert strategies, frameworks that work with your brain, not against
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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. A theological and practical guide for Christians whose brains don't fit conventional spiritual
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Lived
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My Life in Crazytown: What They Called Wrong With Me
My Life in Crazytown joins Lived on The Writing King. This is not a redemption story, because I was never broken
A memoir about how dysfunctional childhood survival skills became professional superpowers. Late-diagnosed ADHD, autism, and accidentally building a career fr
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Writing
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Show Don't Tell: The Advice Everyone Gives and Nobody Explains
Show Don't Tell joins Writing on The Writing King. Everybody said it. Nobody said what it meant.
Stop announcing emotions. Start making readers feel them. Step-by-step techniques to convert weak telling into powerful showing, with diagnostic skills to fix
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Philosophy
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God Is Everything: A Framework, Not a Faith
God Is Everything joins Philosophy on The Writing King. Not metaphor. Not poetry. A description of what everything is.
A theological framework built on direct experience. Quantum mechanics, neuroscience, consciousness research. Why evil exists. What happens after de
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