Book ReviewsMick Foley's wrestling memoir became a bestseller because he wrote it himself, longhand, refusing the ghostwriter the publisher offered. The decision shaped everything: his voice, his digressions, his willingness to report hard truths without softening them. It's the clearest proof…
AmericaOn the evening of 11 September 2001 I wrote about what I had watched that day, and never revised it. Twenty-five years later, some of it holds up and some of it is wrong in ways that took years to…
Authority Through AuthorshipA draft arrives and something is structurally wrong with it. That moment decides more about the project than anything before it.
Fiction WritingMy grandfather survived the camps and wrote it down after the war. I was seventeen, hiding from the family, when he asked whether I wanted to know about it. The book then waited decades.
Fiction WritingA realistic novel about a kid harassed online has been written a thousand times and no seven-year-old finishes one. So Jake goes inside the internet, where trolls have caves and algorithms have addresses, and the villain is a machine that…
Fiction WritingThis collection is reconnaissance. I intend to write a novel in every genre, and forty short stories across forty genres was a way of dipping a toe in each one before committing a year to any of them.
Character DevelopmentMy father died with a one-bedroom apartment filled floor to ceiling and two full storage units, while being broke. I was three thousand miles away, so I told the apartment manager to donate all of it. Nobody objected, and nobody…
Career StoryFor 33 years I worked in enterprise technology, twenty of them running IT at Trader Joe's. Then I wrote 113+ books. Nobody predicts that line, and the pivot is the story. A crooked career is the book.
Authority Through AuthorshipYou will hate one chapter for no good reason. Somebody else will know your career better than you do. The hardest week is the one after the manuscript is finished.
DefamationSome books I turn down in the first conversation. The revenge memoir has a sound: I am a victim, I am a victim, I am a victim. It fails on the page and in court, and sometimes a better book…
ADHDI was diagnosed AuADHD at sixty-four, and the diagnosis is the reason this book exists. One of the answers it supplied was that the traits my family spent nineteen years trying to suppress were the traits keeping me alive in…
Fiction WritingGideon Spilett kept two sets of records on Lincoln Island, one for the New York Herald and one for himself. What he left out of the published account was the whole of Neb, and the reason was that an equal…
Professional ghostwriting for executives, founders, coaches, and authors who want to get the book done right. 113+ books authored. 54+ ghostwritten for clients.
Ready to discuss your book?
BOOK YOUR PRIVATE CONSULTATIONNo pitch. No pressure.
© 2026 Richard Lowe. The Writing King. All rights reserved.
