I always have a handful of writers I am mentoring — at one time I made my living doing it — and over the years have written a few tomes and mini-tomes myself. (As well as a dozen plays, a couple of screenplays, two hundred songs, three hundred poems, and a bunch of checks.)

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​I have also ghostwritten a dozen books for clients, but I’m not really interested in doing that anymore (unless the gig is really interesting) but I love to mentor. I have a tried-and-true process, and by the end of it, you’re a better writer, you know how the whole process works — and gosh-darn it, you have a book!

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Maybe your already have a book or manuscript, and it needs tweaking. And/or you need to know how to pitch it, talk to the media about it, create a Book-Shining®, promote it. Count on it, I know this stuff. (And it doesn’t matter whether you’re self-published or in the one-tenth of one percent who finds a publisher, you’re going to be responsible for marketing. Count on that too!)

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“Einstein said, ‘If you cannot explain your subject to a six-year-old, you do not understand it yourself.’ My second book is a DIY course for thinking wisely. Try explaining that to a six-year-old.  Jack Barnard understood what I wanted to accomplish and literally would not rest until my understanding of my own work was such that I could, in less than fifty words, explain Wisdom to anyone, even a six-year-old."  Doug McKee