About 20% of the time, authors I work with stop making progress. This pause often lasts months. It also saps authors’ energy and creates guilt and sadness. If this is you, I want you to feel better. So here’s some advice on what to do if your book appears to be stalled. Step 1: Forgive…
Publishers and authors are panicking about the appropriate uses of AI. It’s a nuanced problem, because AI use creates issues of quality, copyrightability, and disclosure. Wiley, publisher of vast numbers of business books, has now published its extensive guidelines online for all to see. Wiley’s guidelines are a great start Given some of the shortsighted…
Authors I work with have used AI tools in dozens of different ways. There are no fixed rules — at least not yet. But it’s been my experience that close collaborators — such as coauthors; an author and ghostwriter; or an author and a developmental editor — need to agree on what uses of AI…
I work with authors. That means my clients are idea people . . . and boy do they have a lot of ideas. I take it as my sacred duty to give honest feedback on those ideas. I am the author’s first sounding board. I can keep them from wasting time on a dumb idea,…
Newsletter 124. When the AI bubble inevitably bursts, what happens next? Plus, a book written on a mobile phone while hiking, Epstein fallout in the book business, three people to follow and three books to read. And if you’re interested, join my webinar today (Wednesday) at 1pm ET on AI and the Writing Profession. After…
AI has significantly influenced the types of clients I have now. But the fundamentals of what I help people with — clear, accurate, engaging communication — remain exactly the same. How AI has changed my projects These are the projects I’m working on right now and how AI has changed them. Writing workshop I’m conducting…
We all know that coauthors — or authors and their ghostwriters — need a close relationship. Here’s are the qualities that make that relationship work, starting with trust. Trust is the foundation of an authoring collaboration Trust is the unshakable foundation of every book collaboration relationship. That is true regardless of whether you’re talking about…
I am so freakin’ sick of all the services trying to get your to write a book. It’s as if people are coming up to you and saying “You should be an Olympic athlete” or “You should marry a fashion model.” I don’t want you to write a book. If you want to write a…
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