“The Ghostwriter’s Six-Figure Goldmine”, Now Available

This year, I’ve had many chats with ghostwriters. They talk about clients expecting to pay peanuts for ghosting nonfiction and fiction books. There’s a fundamental misconception here. Please take this to heart: YOU set your rates, no one else. Look at it this way. If I want to hire someone to take a scythe my overgrown garden, kill weeds, remove … Read more

Self-Publishing: A Vital “Essentials” Checklist For Nonfiction

Are you a self-publishing author who’s publishing nonfiction? A checklist of essential elements may help. I created this checklist for my students; you may find it useful too. Vital: please test all nonfiction ideas. Testing can save you months—even years. Self-publishing: find problems and offer solutions—and TEST We all have problems we’re not sure how to tackle. Or, perhaps we … Read more