About

Hi, I’m Sean. Thank you for stopping by.

Life’s better with the right words.

This tagline, conjured without much consideration the first Sunday after I started this site, has come to define my online existence.

I’ve been a serial entrepreneur most of my life, ever since my first small business was built running candy bars and comic books behind the enemy lines of my elementary school at the age of 12.

I built my first business six years later, first buying a small flower cart in a bustling shopping district of Long Beach, California, then quickly expanding the enterprise to five locations in half as many years.

After running one of the city’s most successful flower shops for a dozen years; dealing with brides, purchasing premium roses from some of the world’s finest farms and helping to run the day to day operation, it was time to move on. Though I loved working with flowers, I was a father, with a toddler and a newborn.

Days were quickly disappearing. I considered my children’s first five years of life as sacred, and wanted to miss as little as possible.

I sold my stake in the business and opened a pre-school with my wife Cindy, a teacher of 20 years. We bought an old Victorian house in the historic district of our city, where we could live upstairs and run our preschool on the bottom floor.

Cindy resigned from the district, we opened our preschool, then spent every day of the next four years together with our children.

Somewhere in the midst of reading a million children’s books out loud, I realized I might want to be a writer. Though I’d always been a heavy reader and fluid communicator, and despite my wife begging me to start writing practically since the day I met her, writing always seemed like a spectator sport to me.

Soon enough my daughter was starting Kindergarten and my son was but a beat behind. I could feel the band getting back together to play the entrepreneurial beat in the back of my brain. I wanted to write, and looked toward the limitless potential of the Internet as the best place to point my focus.

I launched Writer Dad as my first online endeavor in July of 2008. Though I didn’t really know what I was doing, I was passionate in my ignorance, establishing an immediate community in the comment section of the site while landing guest posts on A-List sites such as Copyblogger, Zen Habits and ProBlogger.

Though I spent that next year making a million mistakes, each one taught me to tighten my game and sharpen my focus.

There’s an endless number of things must learn if you want to make a living online. Success requires a steadfast and undaunted commitment.

Fortunately, I love to learn and used every opportunity to absorb and apply all the new information I possibly could. I learned the basics of marketing and writing direct response copy, then sharpened that skill set over the course of 18 months with a quickly growing stream of appreciative clients.

Writer Dad is, and always will be, my home base online. My online projects are many, but my most important businesses are Ghostwriter Dad and Collective Inkwell, both of which are run in tandem with my creative and business partner, David Wright.

At Ghostwriter Dad, we handle all types of copy, from personal to professional; direct response marketing to wedding vows and letters of complaint. Our ghostwriting service carries over to Collective Inkwell as well, where Dave and I help authors get their books to print with a full suite of publishing and pre-publishing services.

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