I’m Richard Lowe, and I write books for people who have something worth saying and not enough hours to say it. I work out of Clearwater, Florida — about ten minutes up the road from Largo — and unlike most of the “local” ghostwriters you’ll find online, I’m not an out-of-state agency with your city pasted into a template. I actually live in Pinellas County, and I’ve worked with clients in Largo.
Why Largo
Largo sits right in the middle of Pinellas County, and it has a calm, unhurried feel that I’ve always liked. I’m not a beach person, but the Gulf beaches — Indian Rocks Beach and the others along that stretch — are an easy drive from anywhere in Largo, close enough that you forget how lucky that is until you’ve lived somewhere without them.
What actually draws me to Largo is the Florida Botanical Gardens. It’s roughly 150 acres, it’s free, and it’s one of the best quiet places in the county to walk and think. If you want the full picture, here are my ghostwriting services. I’m a photographer as well as a writer, and the gardens are the kind of place I’ll happily spend a few hours with a camera — the butterfly garden, the tropical walks, the wetlands. The same eye that frames a photograph frames a story: knowing what to leave in, what to cut, and where the reader’s attention should land. Heritage Village sits right next door, and the whole Pinewood Cultural Park area rewards slowing down.
Largo is also full of lakes, like most of this part of Florida, and dotted with good seafood — the unfussy, been-here-forever kind of places I’ve eaten at over the years. It’s a relaxed town, and that’s exactly the environment good writing needs. Books don’t get written in chaos. They get written in the long, undisturbed stretches of focus this part of the Gulf Coast makes possible. I serve clients throughout Pinellas County.
What I Actually Do
I take your ideas, your expertise, your story — and turn them into a finished book that reads as if you wrote it on your best day. That’s the whole job. You stay the author. Your name’s on the cover. My job is to disappear into your voice.
I’ve written more than 113+ books under my own name, including the Kindle bestseller Focus on LinkedIn, and ghostwritten over 54+ for other people. Some of those clients have been right here in Pinellas County, Largo included — and being close enough to meet in person, when a client wants to, is part of what makes local work easy.
How I Work
Every book starts with a conversation. I do an initial interview to draw out the shape of the book and build a working outline. From there we go deep — sometimes twenty interviews, sometimes as many as forty, depending on the size and complexity of the book. Those interviews are where your real voice and knowledge come out, and they’re the raw material everything else is built from.
I use AI tools to help structure the overview outline, which you then approve before any writing begins. Then we work chapter by chapter. For each chapter I build an outline first, write the chapter myself, and send it to you. I also work across Florida. You approve it or ask for changes, I revise, and we go back and forth until that chapter is right — usually about a week per chapter. You get revisions as we go, and one full revision pass at the end once the whole manuscript is drafted. Nothing gets locked in without your sign-off.
How long the whole thing takes depends on length. A 30,000-word book generally runs about four months through the writing; an 80,000-word book is more like seven to eight. I’d rather give you an honest timeline than a flattering one.
Local Clients Welcome
Most of my work is done remotely — the interview-and-draft process works just as well over a call as in person. But I genuinely enjoy working with local clients, and when someone’s nearby, we’ll meet up. I also write for authors in Clearwater. Largo is only a few minutes from Safety Harbor, where I usually meet clients at the Safety Harbor Resort and Spa. There’s something about starting a book over a good meal, face to face, that a phone call can’t quite match.
The Technical Difference
Here’s what most ghostwriters can’t offer: before I wrote books, I spent decades in information technology — data centers, systems, the hard technical side of the business world. That background means I can write the books most ghostwriters quietly turn down. Artificial intelligence. Digital transformation. Cybersecurity. Machine learning. The Internet of Things. If your book lives in a technical or business space, you won’t spend the first month teaching your ghostwriter what you do. I already speak the language.
That’s rare. Most ghostwriters are generalists who’ll happily write your memoir and then struggle the moment the subject turns technical. I’m the opposite — a writer who came out of the technical world, not one trying to fake his way into it.
Common Questions
Do I keep the rights to my book?
Yes. You keep all rights and all credit. It’s your book and your name on it. I also write for authors in St. Petersburg. I’m rarely listed on the cover — usually just acknowledged on the copyright page or in the back, if at all.
Is the book written by AI?
No. I use AI to help structure outlines, but I write every chapter myself, and you approve each one. The thinking, the writing, and the back-and-forth that makes a book sound like you is human work.
How long will my book take?
It depends on length. Roughly four months for a 30,000-word book and seven to eight months for an 80,000-word book, including the interviews, the chapter-by-chapter writing, and the final revision pass.
Do you work with clients in person or remotely?
Both. Most of my work is remote, but local Largo and Pinellas County clients are welcome to meet in person — usually in nearby Safety Harbor.
Nearby and related
I cover the whole county. You might also be looking at Clearwater, a few minutes north, St. Petersburg to the south, and the wider Pinellas County area.
Let’s Talk
If you’re in Largo, anywhere in Pinellas County, or the wider Tampa Bay area, and you’ve got a book in you that isn’t getting written, let’s have a conversation. The first consultation is free and there’s no pressure. You tell me about your book; I’ll tell you honestly whether I’m the right person to write it.
Set up a free consultation, and let’s get your book started.