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…
JulyFebruary 12, 2026
A writer's reflection on Independence Day, from childhood fireworks to Big Bear Lake, from grandfather's POW camp to the freedom to build a career out of words
Book CoachingFebruary 12, 2026
Should the memoir run chronologically, circle a single theme, or jump across time? Nearly every memoir project hits this wall, a lifetime of material and no obvious shape, and the wrong choice can turn a remarkable life into a book…
Book CoachingFebruary 12, 2026
A client once delayed a memoir of his 85-year-old father for six months. The day he finally committed, his father had a heart attack. He survived, and the book happened, but it nearly did not. Here is why the right…
Book CoachingFebruary 11, 2026
I built a pretend computer out of paper clips in kindergarten, already obsessed with how systems fit together. That obsession drove four decades of choices, from running tech for a $16 billion company to publishing 113+ books. Here is how…
Book CoachingFebruary 11, 2026
Thanksgiving hands a writer everything at once: gratitude and guilt, warmth and dysfunction, food, family, and a tangle of uncomfortable history. It has fueled stories since long before it was a national holiday. Here is how books and movies have…
Reading LifeFebruary 11, 2026
A personal remembrance of September 11, 2001, the day that changed everything, and why the stories from that day must continue to be told.
NovemberFebruary 11, 2026
My first ghostwriting project was my grandfather's story, a WWII POW who survived. Why veterans' memoirs matter and how ghostwriting preserves them.
Book CoachingFebruary 11, 2026
In his nineties I sat with my grandfather and his lifetime of journals to write his memoir, and discovered the story I grew up on, that he survived Bataan, was wrong; the truth was a march through Manila, no less…
Becoming a GhostwriterFebruary 11, 2026
At seventeen, my grandfather handed me his World War II diary and asked me to turn it into a book. He had served on the USS Panay and survived being marched through Manila as a prisoner. That first project became…
GhostwritingFebruary 10, 2026
Moehringer moved to Las Vegas for two years and logged 250 hours with Andre Agassi to write Open, a memoir that aired the hatred of tennis, the abusive father, the drug use, everything a sanitized celebrity book leaves out. The…
MayFebruary 10, 2026
A personal tribute to my mother, her lasting influence, and the true meaning behind Mother’s Day, past the cards and flowers.
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