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30 years of pulling books out of people who swore they had nothing to say. No fluff. No gatekeeping. The truth behind building your Author Empire.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It’s not a vision board. It’s not “just write from the heart.” Here’s the actual framework behind every Createcation retreat.
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.