Peter Merrett Doubled His Speaking Fee. The Book Did That.
Luxury hospitality is a craft engineered to be invisible, which is a catastrophic career problem. How Wonderlicious made thirty years legible and doubled a keynote fee inside months.
What Happens When Your Family Doesn’t Want You to Write It
The most common reason a memoir stalls, and the one nobody names out loud. How to separate what will upset people from what will harm them, and the conversation that takes eleven minutes.
Publishing Terms Explained: A Plain-English Glossary for First-Time Authors
The straight answer Publishing has its own language, and nobody hands you the dictionary. These are the terms first-time authors run into most, in plain English: the money words, the ways to get published, the editing stages and the words you’ll hear once your book goes on sale. Bookmark it. You’ll be back. You’re smart. […]
Book Coach for Founders and CEOs: Write the Book Without Losing a Quarter
The straight answer A book coach for founders keeps your book moving when your calendar won’t. You write every word. Your coach brings the chapter map, the weekly deadline and the honest notes, so the book gets finished in months instead of drifting for years. My book coaching is $10,000 USD for 12 private 60-minute […]
NaNoWriMo Is Gone. November Isn’t.
25 years, 400,000 writers, dead by March 2025 over a badly worded blog post. What actually worked about it, and a 4-week November plan built for nonfiction.
Almost All Writing Advice Is Aimed at Somebody Else
Kill your darlings was written in 1914 by a man lecturing on Elizabethan poetry. If you are an expert with a nonfiction book, most writing advice will actively slow you down.
Your First Chapter Is Probably Chapter 3
Somewhere around page 9, after the throat-clearing, the actual book starts. How to find your real opening and the 4 kinds of warm-up to cut from every chapter.
Is My Life Interesting Enough for a Memoir?
Wrong question, asked in good faith by almost everybody. Memoir runs on change a reader can feel, not drama. 3 questions that settle whether you have one.
Only 15% of What Buyers Read Is Any Good. That’s Your Opening.
Edelman asked 3,500 buyers. 60% pay a premium for good material, 86% open a door for it, and only 15% rate what they read as very good. The bar is on the floor.
How to Interview Someone About Their Own Life
The worst question is the one everybody opens with. A ghostwriter’s actual method for interviewing a parent, a founder, or anyone whose story will otherwise leave the building with them.
The Quantum Copy Method™: What Actually Happens in the Room
It’s not a vision board. It’s not “just write from the heart.” Here’s the actual framework behind every Createcation retreat.
The Median Author Earns $10,000 a Year. Write the Book Anyway.
The Authors Guild surveyed 5,700 authors: $10k median full-time book income. Treat that as true, then measure the column that actually pays. Peter Merrett doubled his speaking fee.