AI vs Human GhostwritingMay 27, 2026
A 71-year-old writing his memoir uses AI better than most professionals half his age, to find the gaps in his draft, to refocus when he loses the thread, to leave his ghostwriter notes on what to tackle next, and never…
FamilyMay 26, 2026
The systematic thinking I built to predict my father's explosions turned out to be the same thinking that reads a failing system. Nobody warned me the skill would transfer.
CultureMay 13, 2026
Comment sections full of people who sounded like they were preparing for a war nobody had formally declared. The view counts were too high for it to be fringe.
How Ghostwriting WorksFebruary 14, 2026
The hardest part of ghostwriting is invisibility. If a reader senses a second hand on the page, the job failed, your name is on the cover, not mine, and the book has to sound like you wrote it. Here is…
Personal StoryFebruary 13, 2026
After losing Georgia by 55,000 votes in 2018, Stacey Abrams spent two years telling one story, not about herself, but about 340,000 purged voters. By 2020 the state flipped by 11,779 votes. Policy did not do that; narrative did. Here…
Becoming a GhostwriterFebruary 13, 2026
I did not set out to be a writer. I set out to understand my grandfather, and the writing followed, more than forty years and 113+ books ago. The path was never a straight line. Here is the real story…
ADHDFebruary 13, 2026
A client goes quiet for two days and my brain writes the entire catastrophe: he hated the chapter, he is firing me, the refund, the career-ending review. From he hasn't emailed to professional ruin in under an hour. If that…
ChristmasFebruary 13, 2026
Christmas is brutally hard to write, because its cultural weight pulls you toward generic warmth, the lights, the cookies, the sentiment every reader has heard a thousand times and feels nothing for. The fix is specificity: not Christmas in general…
DefamationFebruary 13, 2026
The 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…
Book ProposalFebruary 12, 2026
At seventeen I wrote my first memoir, my grandfather's, a Navy cook captured at Corregidor who survived the POW camps and a march through Manila. The family's version was secondhand and partly wrong, so I interviewed him for dozens of…
Authority Through AuthorshipFebruary 12, 2026
The more you read, the more you know, Dr. Seuss told children, and Richard Lowe built a whole career on the line. From a kid haunting libraries to a 20-year tech career at Trader Joe's to 54+ ghostwritten books and…
Becoming a GhostwriterFebruary 11, 2026
In late 2013 I walked away from twenty years as Director of Computer Operations at Trader Joe's, overworked and trading my health for a job that had stopped giving back. I had savings and a dream I had carried since…
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