It’s not right

I’ve been married my entire life, and now I’m not. We were going along as always, making plans, sniping and hugging, irritated and proud of each other and just like that, he left. And suddenly, I’m single. A widow. A woman without a best friend. Without  someone to fight and make up with. Without the [...]

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Why do I teach GCT?.

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That’s what one of my students asked me a couple week ago. “It can’t make you much money,” she said. “Not for the amount of time and work you put in over the three months.” She’s right; it doesn’t. I spend three hours a week teaching each class–in the fall, that’s going to go up [...]

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I regularly find LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc. posts from freelance writers lamenting low fees, slow pays, and big corporations getting away with employee restraints but not providing employee benefits. Don’t you deserve better? As a book ghostwriter, I always get paid, I set my own fees, and I can work as many big-ticket projects at [...]

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Part 1 Steve Jobs thrilled some people and infuriated others when he announced that Apple’s new eBook app will use the agency model for pricing. Translation: publishers can set the price of their eBooks, and Apple will take a standard 35% discount, or commission. Amazon was up in arms, because it believes eBooks should be [...]

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I received an important email, but rather than send it on, I’d like to direct you to one of the (hopefully many) places it’s been posted. Please go to http://trinitylast.com/a-post-rather-than-an-email/ for a very important message to all Americans, be their Republican or Democrat, northerners or southerners, East Coast or West. And may God bless us [...]

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I did not accomplish all those wonderful things I claimed I would do in 2009. I did not reduce my work day from anytime/any day to nine to five, Monday through Friday. I did not get my house impeccably clean and keep it that way. I did not replace my late mother-in-law’s tank for a [...]

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So long, year of painful change and turmoil. Yup, here we are again at the end of another tough year. But since it wasn’t as tough as 2008, making that list of things I did right is going to be a lot easier, right? Of course. Because, as I wrote last year, it’s far too [...]

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I get asked that question a lot: what difference does certification make? Laya Bajpai put it nicely: it gets your foot in the door. http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2520457/ghostwriting_can_be_lucrative_pg2.html?cat=31 Certification training gives you an edge not only in the marketplace, but in doing the actual job of ghostwriting. It takes you out of the league of “just another writer” [...]

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I saw it again–another discussion on another message board about the validity of self-publishing services v. subsidy press. Please. Signing up with a self-publishing service doth not make thee a self-publisher. Actual self-publishers get LCCNs and P-CIPs so their books can be sold to libraries. Actual self-publishers do, indeed, have imprints and business addresses and [...]

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