How to Write a Memoir
Scope, structure, the people in it, and the truth problem. What has to be decided before the writing starts, what can safely wait, and which of those decisions is the one people get wrong.
Tag: Ghostwriting (Page 20)
Book MarketingGetting Published: Proposals, Beta Readers and the Rest
The parts of getting published that nobody explains properly. What a proposal has to prove before anyone reads the manuscript, what beta readers are genuinely for, and where the process stalls.
Book MarketingBook Promotion Tips for Authors
What promotion costs in time and money, which channels return anything at all, and the sequencing that separates a launch that works from one that vanishes in a week.
Book ROI & Business CaseWhy Successful People Use Ghostwriters
My clients' books have raised over $30 million in venture capital, landed TEDx stages, and launched businesses, and not one carries my name. That invisibility is the whole point. Most articles about ghostwriting chase celebrity tell-alls and miss it. Here…
Book ProposalHow to Hire a Ghostwriter: 5 Questions to Ask First
A professional ghostwriter can turn your expertise into a finished manuscript with your name on the cover, but finding the right one takes effort. Here are 14 questions to ask during your consultation, and what the answers tell you.
Character DevelopmentThe Ghostwriter Superhero: Defeating the Villains That Stop Your Book
Somewhere a client stares at a blinking cursor, the book they have described for years still unwritten. The villains keeping it that way have names: fear, imposter syndrome, perfectionism, procrastination, the blank page. Here is how a ghostwriter, recast as…
GhostwritingFive Book Marketing Mistakes That Kill Sales Before Launch
Typing The End is the easy part; selling the book is where brilliant authors freeze. After 54+ books I have watched it happen across every publishing path, the marketing gets neglected and the sales die before launch day even arrives.…
Book ProposalWho Uses Ghostwriters? The People Behind the Books You’ve Read
Celebrities are the smallest part of it. Executives and founders, coaches, athletes, families, people writing in a second language and people with hard stories hire ghostwriters, and more of them lately tried AI first. Here's who uses ghostwriters and why.
Book ROI & Business CaseYou’re Not Too Busy to Write a Book. You’re Too Comfortable.
Sarah and Jake worked the same sixty-hour weeks in the same industry; Jake carved out thirty minutes a morning, Sarah said she had no time. Eighteen months later Jake's book hit the bestseller list, his speaking fee jumped from $2,500…
Book ProposalWhat Do Families Get Wrong About Memoir Ghostwriting?
Families talk themselves out of memoirs with beliefs that don't hold up: the subject isn't famous enough, memory has gaps, it's too late, the book has to be published. Here's what's true instead, and the one belief that is right.
GhostwritingActive Voice in Fiction and Ghostwriting: Why It Matters
Active voice is not a grammar rule to obey; it is a pacing and clarity tool. Jessica drew her weapon moves; the weapon was drawn by Jessica sits there. Stretched across a novel, that small difference decides whether your prose…
Business BooksLogical Fallacies in Nonfiction: What Your Ghostwriter Catches
Across 54+ ghostwritten books, mostly nonfiction, I have had to catch logical fallacies the authors never saw, and that is no insult to them. They are experts in their fields; expertise and watertight reasoning simply are not the same thing.…