I’ve spoken in St. Petersburg, written a memoir for a St. Pete client, and spent years pointing a camera at this city’s walls. I’m Richard Lowe, a ghostwriter based up the road in Safety Harbor. I’ve authored 113+ books under my own name and ghostwritten 54+ more. The agencies with “St. Petersburg” pasted into a template can’t tell you any of that about themselves, because they’ve never been here.
Why hire a ghostwriter in St. Petersburg?
St. Pete makes things. It traded an old ban on street art for more than 600 murals across downtown, and walking the Central Arts District along Central Avenue and the walls are a gallery. Every October the SHINE Mural Festival brings artists from around the world to add to it. I’m a photographer as well as a writer, and between the murals, the waterfront and the Pier, this city’s never let me run out of subjects.
The Dalí Museum stuck with me more than anything else. Its “Dalí Lives” exhibit trained an AI on hundreds of interviews and archival films until a life-size, talking Dalí greets you from the screens and talks about his own work decades after his death. I spend my working life around AI, cybersecurity and digital transformation, so watching a dead surrealist brought back by machine learning hit me harder than it hits most visitors. A city whose marquee museum does that is a good place for a technical writer to have clients.
What talk did Richard Lowe give in St. Petersburg?
On July 11, 2016, I gave a talk called “Home Computer Security” for the Quak Center Lifelong Learning Program at Westminster Suncoast. Westminster Suncoast is a retirement community, and that audience looks a lot like my memoir clients: people with long lives behind them who still show up to learn something new.
“I asked Richard, What do I do next? His response was simple but powerful. He gave me the exact guidance I needed, and just like that, everything clicked.”
Ben “The Automator” Christensen, CTO
How would a St. Petersburg book project work?
It starts with a free call. From there, the work runs on recorded interviews of an hour or two, in person or by phone, whichever you like. You get a written summary after every session, and chapters come to you one at a time so you can push back before the next one’s written. Most books take four to eight months, and your share is roughly 20 to 40 hours. The details are in how a ghostwriting project works.
Can we meet in person in St. Petersburg?
Yes. Most of my local meetings happen up the road, over lunch at Poblanos Mexican Grill (2451 N McMullen Booth Rd, Clearwater; book a free call to set it up) or at the Safety Harbor Resort & Spa, and working sessions are in a reserved room at the Safety Harbor Public Library. Plenty of St. Pete people make that drive. If you’d sooner stay put, I’ll come down to you, and meetings on your end of the county add my travel time and expenses. Phone works too, recorded the same way.
Can a St. Petersburg ghostwriter handle a technical book?
Yes. St. Pete’s tech companies and its marine-science community have stories that need someone who knows the ground. I spent 33 years in enterprise IT, 20 of them as Director of Computer Operations and Technical Services at Trader Joe’s. A book about software, security or the research you’ve spent your life on won’t need a glossary from you first. More in why technical books need a ghostwriter who gets tech.
What does St. Petersburg give a writer?
More literary history than it advertises. I’ve written about the house where Jack Kerouac died, the journalism school that owns the Tampa Bay Times, and the pink hotel a man built out of one sentence. When your book’s done, there are five independent bookstores in this city worth walking it into.
More St. Pete, and the rest of the bay, is in my Writing in Tampa Bay hub.
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St. Pete’s the south end of my local work. You might also be looking at Largo, just north, Clearwater, up the coast, Tampa, across the bay, or the wider Pinellas County area.
How do you start a book with a St. Petersburg ghostwriter?
Book a free call below. We’ll talk about the book, who it’s for, and whether I’m the right writer for it. If you’d like to see my work on your own material first, the Book Discovery Intensive ends with a sample chapter in your voice.
This city paints its stories on the sides of buildings. Yours deserves at least a book. Book the call.
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