Book ReviewsA landmark memoir of living with bipolar disorder, written by a clinical psychologist who is herself one of the world's leading experts on the illness she has. That rare double perspective, patient and authority, makes it uniquely valuable: candid, beautifully…
Book ReviewsShippey, a philologist who held Tolkien's own academic post, answers the question every Middle-earth lover eventually asks: how did he actually do it? He reverse-engineers the deepest world in fantasy into method, build names first, let the world grow to…
Book ReviewsCorrespondence instead of craft instruction, and the closest thing we have to a recording of a masterpiece being built, slowly and doubtfully over decades. It shows Tolkien stuck, rewriting, and unsure it would work, a real tonic for any writer…
Book ReviewsThe authorized, still-definitive 1977 life, written with full access to Tolkien's papers and family. It traces the orphaned childhood, the Somme, Oxford and the Inklings, and the decades-long creation of Middle-earth. Authoritative, complete, and humane, a little reserved by being…
Book ReviewsAn award-winning, illuminating account of how World War I shaped Tolkien and the making of Middle-earth, meticulous in reconstructing his wartime experience and rare in its clarity about his theory of myth and resistance to allegory. One of the best…
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…
Authority Through AuthorshipFounders who sold their company are sitting on the most underused authority book in the market. The acquisition memoir does commercial work no other format can. Here is what to include, what your deal documents legally prevent you from saying,…
Business BooksHiring a memoir ghostwriter is not the same as hiring a business-book one, and most articles miss the difference. Memoir needs emotional safety in the interviews, a personal instead of professional voice register, and a writer who has actually done…
AudiobookThe writer's fee is the biggest line item in a ghostwritten book, but far from the only one. A real budget folds in editing, design, publishing, and the optional-but-valuable extras, proposal, marketing, audio. Authors who plan only for the fee…
Hiring a GhostwriterIs my life interesting enough for a memoir is the most common question I hear, and the framing is almost always wrong. Memoirs do not win on dramatic biography; they win on a specific voice telling a specific story honestly.…
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…
Hiring a GhostwriterMemoir, autobiography, and biography get tossed around as synonyms, but they are different books with different structures, reader expectations, and markets, and the wrong label produces one that disappoints everyone who opens it. Here is how to tell which one…
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