Writing and publishing come with legal questions most authors would rather ignore until something goes wrong. These articles cover the basics every writer should understand: rights, copyright, contracts, and the protections that keep your work yours.
Ghostwriting ContractInterviewing your ghostwriter before you sign is not a formality; it is the single step that decides whether you get a great book or an expensive disappointment. I offer a free consultation to every prospect, as good ghostwriters do. Here…
Contracts and AgreementsMemoir, business book, or exposé, if your manuscript touches your time at a former employer, you have to reckon with NDAs, non-disparagement clauses, trade secrets, and defamation. Here is what your old NDA actually restricts, what non-disparagement really prevents, what…
DefamationWriting about family is the most legally and personally fraught part of a memoir, and the worry stalls more projects than anything else. The legal exposure is real but narrower than most authors fear, and the relational side has techniques…
Authority Through AuthorshipFamily-law clients arrive in crisis, not shopping for a service but scared, ashamed, exhausted, making the biggest decision of their lives in the worst week of it. The book does work no website or consultation can. In six vignettes, here…
Authority Through AuthorshipEstate planning is a referral business built on a subject clients refuse to think about, which is why the book that works never reads like a sales pitch. It reads like the kindest, clearest conversation about death anyone has had…
Authority Through AuthorshipSurgeons assume a book raises their malpractice exposure; the opposite is closer to true, because plaintiff's attorneys target outliers, not established authorities, and a book inside the standard of care is a credibility asset the defense loves. Here are the…
AI WritingCustomer service is the most public AI failure category in business, and the failure mode never changes: executives hear AI handles 70 percent of tickets and read it as AI replaces the team. But the other 30 percent are the…
DefamationA revenge memoir is a bad idea for the writer and a worse one for the ghostwriter. I once turned down a former mob informant who wanted to name names and settle scores, then promised to keep my role secret,…
AI AdoptionAn edge case is any situation outside the pattern an AI was trained on, and the machine cannot handle it, because it has never seen the case and has no judgment to fall back on. The cost scales brutally: a…
DefamationThe hardest part of a memoir is never the prose; it is the people, the parent, the ex, the business partner whose presence the story needs and whose inclusion creates a problem no amount of craft can fully solve. All…
Copyright InfringementCopyright is not abstract legal theory when you have signed agreements on 54+ ghostwriting projects. It is the framework I work inside every single day. Here is what writers actually need to understand about who owns their words, what fair…
AI CopyrightCopyright intimidates a lot of writers, and that fear keeps them from understanding rights they already hold. This is not legal advice, just plain-language observations from years as an author and creator. Here is what you should know about protecting…
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