About Me
A JOURNALIST Gets Asked to Write a Book…
There I was, cranking out lead-generating e-books for my own online biz I started after 12 years of staff journalism, when I got approached by a print publisher to write a how-to business book. And then it happened again. That started my journey into ghostwriting books.
For over 5 years now, I’ve been focused entirely on ghostwriting business books for innovative CEOs, consultants, investors, coaches, and other experts.
It’s definitely my favorite phase of a nonfiction writing career that dates back to the mid-1990s. My book ghostwriting brings together my experience as a business journalist, a business owner, and a content ghostwriter to do what I enjoy most: The challenge of telling a book-length business story so interesting that it gets read right through to the end.
ALSO: I built and sold a digital business that I wrote lead-gen books for.
I created two websites that help freelance writers earn more through free information, paid membership, courses, and community–the award-winning Make a Living Writing blog and the membership community Freelance Writers Den.
I wrote more than a dozen e-books that served as lead generation for these businesses, most recently The Recession-Proof Freelancer. After building the blog to nearly 1 million annual readers and the Den to 1,500 paid members, I sold my sites in 2021.
Since then, I’m back to my first love–helping fascinating people capture their unique stories and world-changing insights in an authority-building book that takes their company or career to a whole new level.
My So-Called Freelance Life
From 2005-2020, I wrote articles and blog posts for clients, including a 3-year stint with my own Forbes channel on entrepreneurship and franchising. I’ve also written for Forbes magazine, Entrepreneur (cover stories plus I was their tax columnist), The Writer’s Market and many other publications, as well as for corporate clients including Costco, Deloitte, and American Express.
I spent nearly 7 years as a staff writer at the Puget Sound Business Journal, covering business in Seattle. I wrote about retail, ecommerce, restaurant, nonprofits, legal, real estate, higher education and more. Interviewed Schultz, Nordstrom, Sinegal, Bezos, and many more. It was a great training ground for telling CEO stories.
We filed at least four stories a week at PSBJ, so let’s see…that’d be 1,200 articles or so, right there. I worked for two great editors there, Rami Grunbaum and Don Nelson. Man, I learned a lot.
Before PSBJ, I spent five glamorous years covering home improvement retailing for the trade publication National Home Center News. I went on over 100 business trips, from New York to Anchorage. I learned how to sell merchandise at 100% markup and why we all buy what’s on the endcap, even if it’s not the best deal.
A Business Writer is Born
My journey out of songwriting–my first type of writing, from age 14–began when I won an essay contest in the L.A. Weekly. My ‘day job’ while I played clubs was legal secretary at MGM, the William Morris Agency, and other entertainment companies. The organizational skills I learned keeping lawyers’ contracts and deadlines straight serve me well today, as I project-manage for my authors and keep their manuscripts on track.
I also love radio and served as on-air talent at Pacifica Radio Station KPFK Los Angeles 90.7 FM for two years.
I attended UC Santa Barbara, and studied journalism through UCLA Extension. I was born and raised in Los Angeles, but have lived in the Seattle area for 30 years now. I’ve learned how to say ‘Skagit,’ so I’m told I can say I belong here now.
When I’m not traveling in my RV (we went full-time in 2024), I’m often walking, biking, paddleboarding, seeing friends, traveling internationally, doing Israeli folk dance, or playing mah jongg.
My incredibly supportive husband is Larry Tice, and my grown kids Evan, Eylian, and Ariella all know more about technology than I do.
Media
I often hop on podcasts to discuss the process of collaborating with a ghostwriter.
Here’s an example, on the AuthorsUnite podcast:
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