A response to Jasmine Sun on the independent writer’s advantage — and why ghostwriting is more human work than ever. By Deborah Holmen, M.Ed., NBCT AI Can Write the Sentences. It Can’t Get the Story. A response to Jasmine Sun on the independent writer’s advantage — and why ghostwriting is more human work than ever. Jasmine Sun published a piece this month called “The Independent Writer’s Advantage in the Age of AI.” It ran on Substack, adapted from a talk she gave at the Once

By Deborah Holmen, M.Ed., NBCT, CLC Eye-level view of a writer’s desk with a notebook and pen Memoir Ghostwriting for Leaders, Clinicians, and Lived-Experience Authors Writing a memoir is personal work. It's your voice, your lived experience, your truth on the page. Sometimes the story you're carrying needs a partner who can shape it into a book that holds together and lands with the readers you want to reach. I'm Deborah Holmen — author, freelance writer, and memoir ghostwri

By Deborah Holmen, M.Ed. NBCT A doctor learning the stories of her patients. Most of the people who reach out to me have been carrying a book idea for months. Sometimes years. They're physicians, therapists, nurses, integrative practitioners, recovery coaches, parents who walked through something hard with a child. They've sat with patients and clients in their most vulnerable moments. They've stood beside loved ones in hospital rooms. They've gathered insights that could gen