The Lake of the Ozarks Real Estate Guide
The buyer's, seller's, and owner's handbook for Camden, Miller, Morgan, and Benton counties: Ameren, FERC, docks, septic, and HOAs.
Legal content · Ghostwriting · 24 books
Words for the legal trade. Books with my name on them — and a few with yours.
Lake of the Ozarks, Mo. — I'm Ty McDuffey: J.D., former Montana newspaper editor, and full-time writer. I've filed more than 3,000 plain-English legal articles for LegalMatch and Thomson Reuters FindLaw, published 24 books through my own imprint, and I ghostwrite for lawyers and founders who have a book in them but no time to write it.
On the desk
All services →Legal content & SEO
Practice-area pages, legal library articles, and blogs that read like a person wrote them, because one did. 3,000+ published pieces for LegalMatch, FindLaw, and law firms nationwide.
The writing desk →Ghostwriting
Full-length books for attorneys, founders, and professionals who want their authority in print. From interviews to a finished manuscript on Amazon, under your name.
How it works →Video & audio production
Blackmagic 6K video and FL Studio audio engineering at the Lake of the Ozarks: listings, brand films, events, music videos, and records.
Production services →From the catalog
All 24 books →The mastheads
Duff Radio
Music, podcast, and documentary platform covering the Kansas City underground rap scene. 400,000+ views across 50+ countries.
duffradio.com →Rural News Wire
A fully automated daily newspaper covering Lake of the Ozarks. A new edition every morning at 6 AM, hands-free.
ruralnewswire.com →Elephant Rock Writing & Content Creation, LLC
The imprint and content shop behind the books, the legal writing, and the client work.
Services →Latest from the blog
All posts →Jul 26, 2026
Old Linn Creek, Missouri: Walk the Town Under the Lake
Old Linn Creek was the Camden County seat until Bagnell Dam drowned it in 1931. A walkable 3D reconstruction, built from the surviving photographs and the county record.
Jul 26, 2026
Old Linn Creek, Rebuilt
The Camden County seat was taken apart by hand in the winter of 1930-31, then drowned the next year. I put it back together well enough to walk down Main Street, and set the demolition on a slider.
Jun 1, 2026
Offering Lake of the Ozarks Video Production & Audio Engineering
Cinema-grade video production and audio engineering at the Lake of the Ozarks: real estate tours, brand films, events, music videos, recording, and mixing.
The Santa Fe Trail · Weekly
A raw, longform journal about building a creative life.
Fatherhood, writing for a living, martial arts, land, money, and the road. Every week, free on Substack.