I’m Richard Lowe, a ghostwriter and author based just across the bay in Clearwater, on Florida’s Gulf Coast. Tampa is close enough that I’m over there regularly, 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 the Tampa Bay area, and I know Tampa well. (See also the bookstores on that side of the bay)
Why hire a ghostwriter in Tampa?
If there’s a serious business or technology convention anywhere on this coast, it’s almost always in Tampa. The alternative is Orlando, which is too far for a half-day event, so Tampa is where the region’s professional life happens. Over the years I’ve been to a good number of those conventions at the downtown convention center on the waterfront, and they’re a large part of how I stay connected to the business and tech world I write about.
One in particular stands out: a cybersecurity convention that was interesting and turned into real networking, with a few solid contacts I kept. The business conventions are always worth the trip too, even if a day on the floor in Florida’s humidity can wear you down. The point is that Tampa is where the people with technical and business stories actually gather, and those are exactly the people whose books I’m built to write.
I’m a photographer as well as a writer, and Tampa gives a camera plenty to do, from the Riverwalk and the downtown skyline to the water itself. The same eye that finds a photograph in a busy street is the one I bring to a manuscript: noticing what matters, and framing it so a reader sees it too.
How would a Tampa book project work?
For a Tampa book, we can meet on your side of the bay, though many Tampa clients are happy to start at the Safety Harbor Resort and Spa and carry on by Zoom or phone. Every interview is recorded, you get a summary after each session, and chapters come to you one at a time. The whole process is in how a ghostwriting project works.
Can we meet in person in Tampa?
Most of my work is done remotely, and the interview-and-draft process works just as well over a call as in person. But Tampa is an easy drive from my home base, so local clients are welcome to meet face to face. I usually meet clients on the Pinellas side, at the Safety Harbor Resort and Spa, though for a Tampa client I’m happy to cross the bay. There’s something about starting a book over a good meal, in person, that a phone call can’t quite match.
Can a Tampa ghostwriter handle a technical book?
Tampa is where the region’s cybersecurity and business conventions happen, and those are the people whose books I’m best placed to write, after 33 years in enterprise IT. More detail: why technical books need a ghostwriter who gets tech.
What does Tampa give a writer?
Tampa has literary history most people here have never heard. I have written about the lectores of Ybor City, the readers cigar workers hired out of their own wages, and about getting a book into a Tampa Bay bookstore and getting local media to cover it.
Frequently asked questions about working with a Tampa ghostwriter
Nearby and related
Tampa sits just across the bay from my home turf. You might also be looking at Clearwater, my home base, Safety Harbor, where I meet local clients, the wider Pinellas County area, or ghostwriting across Florida.
How do you start a book with a Tampa ghostwriter?
The Book Discovery Intensive lets you see my interviewing and writing on your own material before you commit. Details and my rate are on the ghostwriting services page.
If you’re in Tampa, anywhere in the Tampa Bay area, or across the water in Pinellas County, 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. Tell me the story you want told, and I’ll tell you whether I’m the one to tell it.
Set up a free consultation, and let’s get your book started.