Behind the Book: The Ghostwriting Advantage
There are five ways to get a book written and I sell four of them. This book walks all five, including the one that does not involve me at all.
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Character DevelopmentBehind the Book: The Ultimate Bug Out Bag Guide
The Northridge earthquake threw me out of bed at 4:31 in the morning. Then the shaking stopped, we realised our son was missing, and every piece of theoretical knowledge I had was worth nothing.
AmericaBehind the Book: The Villainization of America
My grandfather would talk about what happened to him. The problem was that nobody wanted to listen, because the story made people uncomfortable, and people get tired of being uncomfortable.
Children's BooksBehind the Book: The Wild Tiger and the Answer Bot
Blaze says slow down contains no useful information. She is not wrong. It describes a direction without providing a mechanism, and a child who blurts before deciding to blurt cannot simply decide to stop.
Children's BooksBehind the Book: The Wild Tiger, The Wrong Answer
Book One gave Blaze a tool. Book Two is about what happens when the tool has a flaw and forty people have already used it. She does not fix it quietly.
Character DevelopmentBehind the Book: Turn Off the TV, Get Off Your Ass, and Do Something
People say they are too busy to exercise, too tired to cook, too overwhelmed to read and too stressed to see friends. Then they watch four hours of Netflix. Something does not add up.
FictionBehind the Book: Gettin’ Laid
This one came from nowhere in particular. Written by the inkblot method: drop one concept, drop others near it, write outward from each, and wait for the story islands to join.
Fiction WritingBehind the Book: Ghost Healer
Two hat-tips decades apart, a mission and a gardener’s plaque, and the question they share. What keeps somebody in a place after they have every reason to leave it. I do not know. Cal Rourke thinks he does.
Crime FictionBehind the Book: Killer Cuts and Dead Letters
A dark comedy about serial killers where the joke is that neither of them is clever. Nobody suspects a stupid person of being capable of it, so they get through by being underestimated.
Authority Through AuthorshipWhy the Person Who Reads It Last Matters Most
The reader who matters most picks it up in six years, knows nothing about you, and arrived because they were looking for exactly what it covers.
Authority Through AuthorshipWhat a Book Does That a LinkedIn Post Cannot
A good post reaches more people in a day than most business books reach in a year. The comparison is fair on reach and wrong on everything else.
Character DevelopmentBehind the Book: Party Planning for Introverts
I hid in the bedroom at my own housewarming, certain I had ruined it, and a guest found me eating leftover cheese and told me everybody was having a wonderful time. He was not being kind. He was reporting.