Publish a Book. Build Your Business.

For consultants, executives, physicians, entrepreneurs, and other professionals, a well-crafted book can build credibility, showcase expertise, and help prospective clients understand the value you offer. Hi, I’m Rick Benzel, and I help turn your knowledge and experience into a clear, compelling, professionally published book.

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Experience you can trust.

Years in Publishing

Books Ghostwritten

Books Edited

Countless Ideas Shaped

My Philosophy. If you work in any professional or business capacity, you need clients. A well-written, beautifully designed book with your name on the cover can do what ordinary promotion often cannot: demonstrate your expertise, build trust, and give prospective clients a compelling reason to work with you. I will help you create that book.

Everything your book needs.

Bring Your Book Idea to Life

Whether your book is only an idea, a rough manuscript, or nearly finished, I can help you determine the clearest path forward.

Choose the level of support you need—from simply relying on me as a book coach to having me work as your editor or ghostwriter. My team and I can also help you with the entire range of steps to publish your book, including cover and interior design, printing, self-publishing, marketing, and promotion.

Discuss Your Book

We shape your concept, audience, structure, and chapter plan—then keep the writing moving with practical, experienced guidance.

Concept and audience

Book outline and chapter structure

Writing coaching

Publishing strategy

Your ideas and expertise, expressed in a clear, engaging voice. I work closely and confidentially with professionals, physicians, executives, consultants, and creative thinkers.

Interviews and source development

Collaborative drafting

Voice and tone preservation

Complete manuscript development

Confidential collaboration

From big-picture organization to sentence-level polish, I help make your manuscript clearer, stronger, and ready for readers.

Developmental editing

Line and copyediting

Final manuscript preparation

Cover and interior design, production, and publishing support bring your manuscript across the finish line as a professional print book or eBook.

Cover and interior design

Print and eBook formatting

Publishing and launch guidance

Selected book projects.

Books & Authors

A selection from decades of work with authors in leadership, business, health, parenting, psychology, creativity, and social change.

Relationships

Why Couples Drive Each Other Crazy—and How to Fix It

Science-based insights and practical tools for better communication, fewer arguments, and stronger intimacy, by Dr. Ricky Arenson (2026)

Parenting

Spaceship Parenting

Raising Smarter, Kinder, More Capable Children, by Dr. Ricky Arenson (2026).

Health + Wellness

Diabetes: The Real Cause and the Right Cure

Eight Weeks to Reverse Type 2 Diabetes, by Dr. John Poothullil (2025).

Leadership

Leadership: The Art of Inspiring People to Be Their Best

Major General Craig B. Whelden shares award-winning, story-driven lessons on character, trust, mentoring, communication, risk, and leaving a lasting leadership legacy.

Executive Recruiting

It’s All About the Fit!

Drawing on 15 years in retained executive search, Lynton Edwards presents the CompleteFIT® process for identifying, evaluating, hiring, and onboarding value-building executives whose skills, character, and values truly match the role.

Investing

Wall Street Lessons

A disciplined system for overcoming fear and greed, managing risk, and making smarter investment decisions, by James E. Demmert.

Leadership + Management

The Arch of Traits

Drawing on high-stakes corporate turnarounds, William K. Snyder presents a practical framework for balancing ten character traits and identifying leadership blind spots before they undermine teams and organizations.

Entrepreneurship

Crossing the Swamp

Founder of five startups, John Shen recounts his path from first-generation immigrant entrepreneur through business collapse and recovery, sharing eight essential qualities for succeeding as a parallel entrepreneur.

From manuscript to publication.
One experienced partner can help shape, write, edit, design, publish, and position your book.
Full-service support
Scaled to each author and project
Five decades in publishing.
Rick has held editorial positions at Houghton Mifflin, Prentice Hall, and Jeremy P. Tarcher, where he was Senior Editor for The Artist’s Way.
Rick Benzel
Editor, ghostwriter & publishing consultant
Experience across genres.
Projects span business, leadership, health, psychology, parenting, memoir, creativity, and social change.
Books with purpose
Clear ideas. Professional execution.

A clear path to publication.

How We Work

Every book is different, but a thoughtful process keeps the work focused and moving forward.

1. Ideas &
Goals

We begin with your idea, audience, goals, and the role you want the book to play in your life or business.

2. Structure &
Plan

Together we shape the concept, chapter structure, voice, scope, and a practical plan for completing the manuscript.

3. Write &
Edit

Through coaching, ghostwriting, developmental editing, or line editing, we turn the plan into a clear and compelling book.

4. Design &
Publish

We prepare the final manuscript, cover, interior, publishing files, and a sensible path for launch and promotion.

1. Ideas & Goals