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Mar292026

Rolling Stone – The Haunted Book (Every Writer Has One)

There’s a manuscript in every writer’s past—or present—that won’t stay quiet.

It may sit in a forgotten folder, buried on a hard drive with a working title that once set the writer’s heart on fire. It may be printed out and boxed in a closet, marked with notes and red ink, held together by binder clips and regret. It may have been abandoned mid-draft or rewritten ten times over, or restarted in half a dozen places. More…

Mar172026

Forbes – AI Won’t Replace Authors, But It Will Replace Lazy Thinking

I’ve built my career on words. As a bestselling author and business owner, I’ve spent years learning that great writing isn’t about stringing sentences together—it’s about thinking clearly enough to say something worth reading. So, when generative AI arrived and many in my industry worried the written word would soon be dead, I didn’t panic. I got curious. And after two years of watching this technology reshape the content economy, I have a take that might surprise people on both sides of the debate: AI isn’t coming for the best writers. It’s coming for the ones who were never really writing in the first place. More…

Mar152026

MSN – Why we’re obsessed with the origins of evil and how JD Barker is rewriting the modern thriller

For decades, popular storytelling revolved around heroes: their journeys, their moral clarity, their inevitable triumphs. But somewhere along the way, the center of gravity shifted. Audiences began asking different questions, not how evil is defeated, but how it is created. More…

Mar42026

Rolling Stone – When Nothing’s Happening: Keep Writing Anyway

There’s a quiet point in every writer’s life—sometimes early, sometimes deep into the journey—where nothing seems to be happening. The words feel sluggish. The story stalls. The inbox stays empty. The metrics don’t move. No one seems interested. More…

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