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Fire On Your Head

I help authors get clear on what actually works in publishing — before they spend time or money going down the wrong road.

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I've been coaching people to finish their books while mine sat on my hard drive for a decade.

Hey Reader, I have a confession. I've been coaching other people to finish their books for years while my own memoir sat on my hard drive doing nothing. The earliest material in it goes back to around 2015. Some of it older than that. Journal entries, blog posts, notes from seasons of ministry in Lima, documents I'd written for different purposes over different years that I always suspected had a book somewhere inside them. The problem was I couldn't see it. I could feel that there was...

Sir Steve-a-lot Author, Writing Coach Hey Reader, Something happened this week that's worth talking about — especially if you've been following along with what I've been sharing about writing with AI. As of August 2nd, Claude started embedding an invisible watermark into every piece of text it generates. You can't see it. It doesn't change how the writing reads. But it travels with the text when you copy and paste it, and AI detection tools will be able to find it. A lot of people are...