About

I help authors turn the stories swirling around in their head into a book held in their hand.

I do this because I love to see people finally get their stories out to the world.

I have ghostwritten a lot of books. I have edited a lot of books. I have combined the two disciplines for a lot of books.

Why? Because however the author believes they work best, that’s how we will work best — and that’s how the best, most powerful book will be created.

If you as the author prefer in-person conversations, we’ll do that and I’ll weave it into a powerful book. If you the author prefer online conversations or over-the-phone conversations, we’ll do that and I’ll weave it into a powerful book. If you the author prefer to voice record stories and send them my way, we’ll do that and I’ll weave it into a powerful book.

And if you write, or if you have a manuscript half-done in a shelf somewhere, I love to work with and edit the written word too.

And I am there with my authors every step of the way — because teamwork is good for book work.

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I’ve been in books — writing my own, ghostwriting and co-writing with authors, and editing them — for a long time now.

My Journey with and Toward Words:

I quarterbacked professional football teams in four countries before moving to the Sierra Nevada where I lived in a loft, a hallway, a van, a tent, a trailer, and my truck—to work less, ski more, and read all I could.

I ski bummed from first chair to last call for three years amid an unfolding realization that letters were my path.

I embarked on a lit-heavy creative writing MFA at Northern Arizona University, an up-and-coming program with dynamic cohorts. And I could still ski.

I inhaled words — poetry, creative nonfiction, new stuff that ricocheted off the walls, and the classics, Hemingway, Thoreau.

And I wrote. I wrote day and night to gain a master’s understanding of our language.

I then taught both writing and literature at Northern Arizona University and the University of California Santa Cruz; I loved teaching, its lessons in language and in people, and it was more great writer’s training.

I got my first book published because I wrote 500 pages and worked it down—not without help—to a trim 186. Most books don’t need nearly as much editing rework as mine, but the whole revision process was a PhD.

For that is when I finally and truly came to understand the truth in Hemingway’s words, that “all writing is re-writing,” that we must chip away at our letters like that sculptor does his rock, until no more and no less need or should be done.

I took the lesson to soul, and now ghostwriting and editing is what I do. I elevate stories and manuscripts into books.

Drop me a line for a free consultation about yours.

My first career was that of a quarterback. In my final game, I led a two-minute drill to win the 2009 German Bowl with the Berlin Adler against the Kiel Baltic Hurricanes. The next day I retired to do something new.

And that new path led me to books. I’d love to help you with yours.

Say it. Do it. Be it.

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