The first draft of my now-viral TED Talk wasn’t great. 

In fact, while I thought it was pretty good, the speaking coach provided to me by the TEDxBocaRaton organizers had a different reaction. When I...

When I was a child, the four of us would sit around the dinner table every night, eating my mother's incredible home-cooked meals and discussing politics. These lively debates were the heartbeat of ...

So, this is how fast generative AI is moving these days.

As I was working on this newsletter about how easily I can recognize it when my coaching clients copy and paste from ChatGPT or Google Gemini,...

I just watched this super short clip of a talk given by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone to some very surprised students at NYU.

According to these storytelling legends, here is biggest...

I’m a fan of harnessing AI as a tool in writing your books, but NOT of actually using what AI generates to write your books. In fact, I call the writing AI generates “AI Slop.”

Well, my dear friend a...

I don’t care what you think of Ethan Hawke. Or if you don’t think about him at all, frankly. I’m a GenXer, so I grew up with him as one of the primary heartthrobs of my favorite teen movies, most memo...

I am truly blessed in this life and I will never tell anyone otherwise. Ever.

I was born into family and educational privilege. And I am currently living the life of a creative, which can bring with ...

Let’s say you were launching a new business. Would you just start selling something right away?  

No. You’d do your market research first. 

Say you're making healthier snacks for kids. Would you jus...

Most folks browse the Table of Contents when they want to discover what a book is about.

But have you ever browsed the Index?

We have a terrific hack for authors courtesy of Dr. Stephanie Cawthon, p...

Have you seen the New York Times article listing The Best 100 Books of the 21st Century?

To compile it, the editors solicited input from favorite modern authors like Stephen King, as well as celebs l...

I had the honor of meeting Josh Shelov, the founder of Written Out Loud, the other day on Zoom. Much like Your Bestselling Book, Written out Loud offers online courses designed to help people author a...

Recently, I’ve been hearing a lot of horror stories about scammers and frauds in the publishing industry. It breaks my heart because I’ve only ever worked with the most extraordinary people from top d...