Character DevelopmentI wrote this for specific friends who could not work out why relationships kept going wrong. The credential behind it is not on the sales page: eight years photographing performers meant thousands of hours of unguarded conversation with women backstage,…
Fiction WritingI wrote this alongside Gettin Laid, one from each side, to see what the difference looked like on the page instead of in an argument. The distinction turned out sharper than expected: the women learn about each other, and the…
AI WritingA new client arrived with 45,000 words she had bought from an AI service. She still hired a ghostwriter, because the tool never supplies the material. The story was in her. The manuscript was around it.
GhostwritingA 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.
GhostwritingDoris came to me in her late seventies, knowing the end was coming, and wanted her dreams written as a novel for one reader. The book made no money and worked perfectly.
HistoryYbor City was a company town built by a cigar manufacturer in 1885, run through mutual aid societies that owned their own hospitals, and used by Jose Marti to fund a revolution. For a writer it is the densest square…
Book ReviewsBillybeat Island was a bed in a Camden bedroom with five boys in it, and the floor was lava. Gerry Mecca's memoir runs from there to a Texas state championship his team won and he did not.
GhostwritingTelling your trauma story to a ghostwriter can be safe and even healing, if you stay in control. Here's what the interviews are like, what stays off the page, and why a therapist belongs in your corner.
DefamationA ghostwriter can help you write about your divorce honestly without turning the book into a weapon. Here's what to check first, how to protect your children, and how to center the book on your own rebuilding.
GhostwritingSome stories are too painful to say out loud, and you don't have to. Here are the other ways to get a hard story onto the page, and how to decide what the book needs.
HistoryAbout four in ten American prisoners of the Japanese died in captivity. For Americans held by Germany the figure was around one percent. That gap is the shape of the Pacific war, and my grandfather spent three and a half…
Book MarketingThe first month of a book project is mostly interviews and one structural decision, and having the writer twenty minutes away changes the mechanics, not the price. Sessions happen at your table with your objects in the room.
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