Your ghostwriter is going to do a lot more for you than you originally thought. They’re going to critically assess your idea, then work with you until it’s strong enough to live in the world. They’re going to calm you down and boost your spirits. They’re going to untangle your twisted logic and make it…
Every book has an acknowledgments page where you thank the people who helped you. Authors I work with have an unreasonable phobia about this. I have no idea why. Maybe it’s because they have to write like genuine humans and cast aside the expert or academic veneer, which can can be scary. On several occasions,…
Every book has acknowledgments — the page or two where you thank people for helping you. Those pages are filled with lies. Authors are certainly grateful for the help they get. But acknowledgments leave out so much of what actually happens in creating book. They’re dishonest by omission. Should acknowledgments be honest? Read this, and…