Book CoachingNo, ghostwriters do not get royalties, not as standard practice and not on any of my 54+ projects. I charge by the word with milestone payments tied to real deliverables, so the work gets paid as it gets written. Here…
Business BooksI have written two YA novels about cyberbullying, one for a client and one my own. Writing for young readers about something so real forced a different set of skills than adult fiction ever did, and it made me a…
Book ProposalA book proposal is not a summary of your book; it is a business case arguing that the book will sell, the readers are real, and you are the one to write it, the document that lands a traditional deal.…
Business BooksYou built the company, lived the story, earned the expertise. You also know you are never going to write the book yourself, and that is not a failure; it is a clear-eyed read on your time. Here is exactly what…
Book CoachingGhostwriting a book runs anywhere from $10,000 to $150,000, a range too wide to mean anything without context. Here is what those numbers actually buy at each level, why a dollar a word is competitive, and the simple math behind…
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…
AI vs Human GhostwritingAI can spit out a book-length manuscript in minutes, and the internet is full of people who wrote a book in a weekend with ChatGPT. The output exists; whether anyone will care is another matter. The machine predicts likely next…
Authority Through AuthorshipYou have already done the hard work, the companies, the problems solved, the expertise people pay for. A book turns all of it into a permanent asset that markets you around the clock and names you the authority in your…
Book CoachingIn his nineties I sat with my grandfather and his lifetime of journals to write his memoir, and discovered the story I grew up on, that he survived Bataan, was wrong; the truth was a march through Manila, no less…
Book CoachingSome people want a ghostwriter to do the work; others want to write the book themselves and see their own name on something they truly made. For the second group, there is coaching. With 113+ books behind me, here is…
Book CoachingI have published 113+ books and write up to 12,000 words a day, and I also have ADHD that fights me on focus every morning. Every book got finished despite the obstacles, not in their absence. Here is what actually…
Book ROI & Business CaseYou have expertise worth a book and want to know the real number. Here is the honest market: pricing tiers from $8,000 to $65,000, what each one buys, and how payment works. The short version, ChatGPT gives you 50,000 words…
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