Writers are communicators, and the spoken word is half the job. These posts cover public speaking for introverts, Toastmasters, presentations that land, performing on camera, networking that works, and the speeches that made or destroyed reputations.
Authority Through AuthorshipA book separates a keynote speaker from every other pitch a meeting planner sees. Richard Lowe explains how a ghostwritten book gets speakers booked, how to get author copies to the hotel, and where the real return comes from.
Authority Through AuthorshipTeachers collect twenty years of classroom stories and do nothing with them. A ghostwriter turns that material into a classroom memoir, a method book or a book for students while you keep teaching.
Book LaunchYou can talk about a ghostwritten book as well as any author, because the stories in it came from your own life. How to prepare for podcasts, media interviews, readings and launch events.
CommunicationI never met Charlie Kirk, never read his books, and never listened to his show. What I saw were the campus clips, where he sat at a folding table under a Prove Me Wrong sign and let students line up…
AmericaTwain invented an American voice for prose by writing the way people spoke, went bankrupt backing a typesetting machine, outlived most of his family, and produced late work so bleak his estate suppressed parts of it. The cheerful figure on…
FebruaryLincoln had about a year of formal schooling and taught himself everything else. Then he was handed a fracturing country, and he held it together without helping himself to the power the emergency offered.
CommunicationThe first guest this show ever had returns fifty episodes later. Royce Blake on why your voice is an instrument, why you hate the sound of it on playback, and the one technique he would teach if he could only…
AmericaFourteen hedge phrases quietly discount everything a leader says, from "I'll try" to "it is what it is." Why each one backfires, the plain replacement that carries the same content standing up straight, and the shift that matters more than…
CommunicationSpeechwriting is ghostwriting for the ear and the moment. A speech has to sound right spoken aloud and carry the speaker's voice.
FebruaryPresidents' Day is the third Monday in February. The presidents we remember could write, and the words outlasted the terms. Why it still matters.
JanuaryMartin Luther King Jr. Day is the third Monday in January. The man behind the holiday was a writer first, and his words are why we still listen.
Author BusinessA book is the credential that unlocks speaker-fee tiers, from free-with-a-meal all the way to $5,000-to-$20,000 keynotes. The path runs through speaker bureaus, conference networks, and a one-sheet most authors botch. Here is which bureaus take ghostwritten authors, how the…
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