What’s New at The Writing King: Week of August 23, 2026

Aug 28 · Artificial Intelligence, Ghostwriting

The AI Op-Ed Argument Is Aimed at the Wrong Question

This week, the AI op-ed pile-on, why detectors measure the wrong thing, and the one question that is fair to a billionaire and a debut author alike.

Aug 28 · Ghostwriting, Technology

Number Two on the List

This week, the client who found me second on an AI engine's short list, and what the engines check before they put a name on that list.

Aug 28 · Behind the Book, Writing

Behind the Book: Sins of the Internet

This week, the story behind Sins of the Internet, a moral critique 25 years in the making.

Aug 27 · Business, Ghostwriting

Can Two Co-Founders or a Couple Write One Book With One Ghostwriter?

This week, how two co-founders or a couple can write one book with one ghostwriter.

Aug 27 · Behind the Book, Writing

Behind the Book: A Treachery of Legions

This week, the story behind A Treachery of Legions, a Roman novel set in the Year of the Four Emperors.

Aug 27 · Business, Technology

The Client Sent Us the Wrong Source Code

When a client hands you their source code, asking for it isn't the same as verifying you got the right version. One team lost weeks on a "simple" port because nobody checked until too late.

Aug 26 · Critical Thinking, Personal Growth

Hurricane Season: Do It Now, Because You Cannot Do It Later

This week, the hurricane prep list: why the run on stores happens, what to buy before the cone appears, and the pharmacy rule almost nobody knows about.

Aug 26 · Ghostwriting, Memoirs

Doris and the Book for Her Daughter

This week, Doris and the novel she wanted for her daughter, and why a book with one reader is my first data point against the idea that a book has to sell.

Aug 26 · Behind the Book, Writing

Behind the Book: Ridiculous Things People Actually Believe

This week, the story behind my first nonfiction in this series, a field guide to ridiculous beliefs.

Aug 26 · Business, Technology

The Water Kept Flowing When Nobody Was Watching

Most AI agent projects fail not because the models are bad, but because nobody decided in advance what the agent is allowed to do when humans can't reach it. One engineer shares how a 1980s water system kept flowing through months of lost connectivity, and what that teaches us about building agents that actually work.

Aug 25 · Book Marketing, Ghostwriting

My Ghostwritten Book Didn’t Sell. Whose Fault Is That?

This week, what to do when your ghostwritten book didn't sell, and whose fault it really is.

Aug 25 · Critical Thinking, Fiction

Ten Thousand Hours of Beads

This week, forty thousand years of what people have spent on the dead, and why the expenditure is the most consistently attested thing our species does.