The interview is the ghostwriter’s primary tool and the podcaster’s entire show. These articles cover interviewing as a craft: asking questions that unlock real answers, listening past the rehearsed version, and turning recorded conversation into usable material.
Ghostwriting ProcessHalfway through an interview session I stop and ask a question that has nothing to do with the chapter: are we still meeting the goal? That break is the difference between a ghostwriter and a manuscript vendor.
Book LaunchAn agency posted its production schedule: sixteen weeks, contract to finished book, broken out week by week. It answers three questions the sales call never gets to, and every one of them matters more than the total.
Ghostwriting ProcessA former government official hired me for a policy memoir. What the interviews found was the night he chose to save his family. The book someone describes is rarely the book that is there.
fiction writingIn 1981 I fell in love with a text game called Dungeon, the predecessor of Zork. Forty years later I turned it into a novel. Here is why, and the decision that saved the book.
ConsciousnessThe Eternal War started with one question: what happens when an AI goes to Hell? Not a person with a soul, but a machine that cannot find the pattern in eternal punishment.
fiction writingThe first Behind the Book essay: how my first novel grew from a Facebook message, fourteen hours of Skype interviews under a no-lying rule, a pen name I later retired, and an ending that refused a rescue.
Hiring a GhostwriterThe unspoken fear behind every delayed memoir: sitting across from a stranger and telling the true version. What the interviews actually feel like, what you control, and what happens to the hard parts.
GhostwritingA ghostwriter's real job is far more than writing. It is interviewing, structuring, voice-matching, and disappearing completely.
Authority Through AuthorshipOne month after my blog went live, it landed me a $15,000 ghostwriting project, and that was the moment I understood what a blog could do for a service business. This interview, updated for current pricing, tells the full story…
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…
How Ghostwriting WorksEvery book I write starts on Zoom, where I spend hours, sometimes weeks, drawing out a client's stories and voice before writing a single word. The interview quality sets the book's ceiling. After hundreds of these sessions, here is what…
bellydanceIn this conversation I talk about turning a decade of belly dance photography into coloring books, four of them built from real performers instead of generic clip art. Shooting dancers since 2005 is exactly what makes them different. Here is…
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