Author Archive

Ultimately, success comes down to one thing: getting known. Whether it’s in business, scholarship, entertainment or the arts, you can’t rise to the top of your profession if people don’t know know who you are. Fair or not, when one person gets more notice and attention than another, we assume that that person has some distinction or edge or positive quality the other person doesn’t. And that’s the person that gets the job and leads the pack.

Every field has such ...

Note: my good friend and accomplished novelist, Frank J. Edwards, asked me to contribute a guest post to his eminently readable blog at www.frankjedwards.com. “On what?” said I. “You’re a ghostwriter, aren’t you? Review The Ghostwriter.”

He meant, of course, the Roman Polanski film based on Robert Harris’ fine suspense novel, The Ghost. I hadn’t yet seen the film (which I may review as well one of these days). But I couldn’t resist saying a few words the book, for in ...