Book CoachingSome clients hire me to write the whole book; others want to write it themselves and just need someone who has done it before walking beside them. That second path is coaching. Here is what it actually looks like session…
Book CoachingThe most important rule of killing a character is that the death has to be earned, and it is the rule writers break most often. Pile on the emotional score all you want; an unearned death still reads as cheap.…
Authority Through AuthorshipIn this conversation with Fiona Mcvie, I trace the whole path: where I came from, how a career got built on words, and the unglamorous realities of professional writing and ghostwriting. Updated for current numbers, it is the full story…
Character DevelopmentThe wall behind my desk holds books I use, not books I display. Each one earned its spot by getting pulled down mid-project, while I draft novels, ghostwrite for clients, or build handbooks. This is not a best-of list scraped…
Character DevelopmentEvery tattoo tells a story, which is exactly why they work in fiction. A character's body is a text you can read, the scars, the posture, the clothes, the habits they cannot control, each one revealing psychology with no exposition…
Character DevelopmentGhostwriting an anime book for a teenager meant writing in slang and rhythms nothing like my own, where one false note would be obvious to every reader who knew the world. Getting it right meant listening hard and researching the…
Book CoachingI have spent forty-five years writing one fantasy series, Peacekeeper, longer than I have done almost anything else. It taught me more about world-building and magic systems than any craft book could. Here is what nearly half a century inside…
Character DevelopmentRemove conflict and a story stops: characters agree, nothing happens, the reader leaves. It is true in fiction, memoir, and nonfiction alike, when a manuscript drags, the conflict is usually missing, weak, or solved too fast. Here is how to…
Character DevelopmentThe girl boss has no flaws, no arc, and never earns a thing, and she is everywhere, and she is boring. Rey earns nothing; Ripley, Sarah Connor, and Lisbeth Salander are unforgettable. The difference is consequences, flaws, and craft. The…
Character DevelopmentSome books drag you forward by sheer what-happens-next; others hold you because the characters feel like people you know. Plot-driven and character-driven are the two basic engines, and which you pick shapes the whole reading experience. Here are the real…
BiasYou inherit beliefs from your parents and your feed, sure, but also from your ZIP code. Small-town Iowa, downtown Brooklyn, a Silicon Valley condo with kombucha on tap, each quietly installs a different sense of what is obvious and normal.…
Character DevelopmentLiterary publishing loves to celebrate bold new voices, as long as they sound like last year's winners. For all the talk of diversity and risk, the award circuits and highbrow editorial rooms run as one of the tightest echo chambers…
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