Celebrity Ghostwriting: Capturing a Voice the Public Knows
Celebrity books are ghostwriting's most visible open secret. The craft is capturing a voice the public already knows.
Tag: Author Platform
The best time to build an audience is before your book comes out. These articles cover building the platform that buys your books: email lists, websites, and the slow honest work of becoming findable. No tricks, just the steady work that puts real readers in front of your work.
Author PlatformAre Bestsellers Ghostwritten? The Machinery Behind the List
The uncomfortable truth about bestsellers is that a great many were ghostwritten. Craft plus platform is the real machinery behind the list.
Author PlatformWho Decides Which Stories Get Made? What Hollywood’s 2026 Diversity Numbers Tell Every Author
UCLA's 2026 Hollywood Diversity Report found that films reflecting the real makeup of the country earn the most, while the industry funded fewer of them in 2025, with people of color and women losing ground as leads, directors, and writers…
AI AdoptionYou’re Renting, Not Owning: What the Anthropic Shutdown Teaches Writers
The U.S. government switched off Anthropic's most powerful AI models overnight, proving in a single stroke that nobody who uses AI actually owns it. If your business runs on a rented tool, whoever controls it can change the deal or…
Author PlatformI Quit My Job, Moved to Florida, and Sold Twelve Copies
I am not a marketing guru. I am an author who figured out how to market books by doing it badly until I got better at it.
SEE » The Elephant in the Room: Marketing Your Books and Services series
Author PlatformSubstack as the pre-book platform that actually works in 2026
Most pre-book platform advice is build-on-LinkedIn or build-a-newsletter, with no real path from either to an actual book. Substack in 2026 is the underused option for authority authors who want to validate the idea, build the launch list, and pre-sell…
Author PlatformHow to land a book deal without a 10,000-follower platform
Most book-proposal advice assumes a big platform. If you have a small audience but real expertise, the proposal has to carry the weight a platform usually would. Here is exactly what changes, what publishers actually look for from low-platform authors,…
Author BusinessDirect-from-author book sales for authority experts
Every Amazon sale hands over about 65 percent of the cover price and your customer list to a company that competes with you. A direct sale through Shopify, Payhip, or your own site keeps the margin and, more importantly, builds…
Author PlatformMake a Living as a Professional Self-Published Author: The Complete Webinar | Yeadon Public Library
The full January 10, 2019 webinar for the Yeadon Public Library: why print-on-demand opened a golden age, brand-before-book, the Chicago Manual daily habit, word counts raised monthly, the woman-antagonist engagement play, Fiverr rights warnings, platform overlap traps, read-aloud proofreading, pen…
Author PlatformThe Night Before the Yeadon Webinar: Fiction Masterclass and Making a Living as an Author | The Exceptional Scribble Show
The December 4, 2018 call-in the night before the Yeadon Public Library webinar: the complete agenda preview, the Book Empire courses and 500-idea prompt books, the 15,000-word novelette visibility strategy, self-paced practical training, and daily promotion that flows outward instead…
Author BusinessProfessionals Get Paid: Rates, Deposits, and Building Your Tribe | The Exceptional Scribble Show, Episode 238
The November 2018 hour on the professional line: turning passion into a scheduled career with a defended writing space, why the author sells and the book follows, book signing realities, the Fiverr goldmine used safely, negotiate-down-never-up pricing, rate floor math,…
Author PlatformSelf-Publishing, Traditional, or Vanity: Choosing Your Path and Proving Your Market | The Exceptional Scribble Show, Episode 230
The September 2018 hour that started the monthly residency: self-publishing versus traditional versus vanity publishing, proving your genre sells when publishers say it will not, marketing poetry to the right public, the charity-event press trick, Fiction Masterclass, and the on-air…