Book MarketingI have forty-six translations of my books across six languages, and never paid a dollar up front, they cost only a slice of royalties. For most authors the honest answer is yes, translate, because the barrier to trying is almost…
GhostwritingA free consult and a paid Book Feasibility Intensive do two different jobs. The free call tells you whether you might want to work together; the Intensive proves whether the book will actually happen, because you leave with a real…
HostingOut of ice, wine on the carpet, and me having a quiet breakdown in the bedroom. The party was going perfectly well. I was measuring it wrong.
Disaster RecoveryFire on both sides of the road, and when I looked back it had jumped behind me. Years of camping experience and nothing in the car that helped.
Book ROI & Business CaseA thousand items, twenty-five thousand dollars, one year. eBay has changed under sellers since 2003, and most of the advice out there describes a platform that no longer exists.
Book ROI & Business CaseI had the display case open and the pins counted. Then I checked what they were worth, and the arithmetic stopped me. Knowing when to stop is the part nobody teaches.
AI AdoptionEvery model answered in under a second, and the speed was the tell. What the different answers gave away, and why a character whose sincerity you can never verify is a harder writing problem than it looks.
AI AdoptionThe printing press arrived in the 1440s and by the 1470s the scribes had organized a resistance movement. They were not wrong that their world was ending. They were wrong about what that meant for writing. Six hundred years of…
GhostwritingScope, structure, the people in it, and the truth problem. What has to be decided before the writing starts, what can safely wait, and which of those decisions is the one people get wrong.
AI AdoptionWhere AI genuinely helps at the idea stage, where it quietly narrows your options without telling you, and how to use it without ending up with the same book everyone else is writing.
Critical ThinkingI have spent months cleaning up my own website, deleting some articles entirely and rewriting the rest, fabricated quotes, keyword-stuffed paragraphs, emojis in headers, rules between every section. Every one traces to the same mistake: I trusted someone who called…
Overcoming Writing ResistanceInspiration does not improve your writing; practice does, and practice needs a system that holds up against deadlines, fatigue, and real life. Most advice treats output as a willpower problem, which is why most advice fails. Consistency is structural. Here…
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