Celebrity Ghostwriting: Capturing a Voice the Public Knows
Celebrity books are ghostwriting's most visible open secret. The craft is capturing a voice the public already knows.
Series: Ghostwriting (Page 4)
GhostwritingThe Business of Ghostwriting: Pricing, Positioning, and Getting Found
Running a ghostwriting business is a different skill from ghostwriting. Pricing, positioning, and pipeline decide whether a writer makes a living.
GhostwritingWhy Cheap Ghostwriting Is the Expensive Mistake
Cheap ghostwriting is expensive. Content mills produce books that look like books and fail at the one thing a book is for: building authority.
GhostwritingWhat Does a Ghostwriter Really Do?
A ghostwriter does far more than type your words. Here is the real scope of the role, what it costs, and the honest question behind putting your book off.
GhostwritingWhy Most Writers Never Get Paid
Talent is not what separates writers who get paid from writers who do not. Here is what really moves the needle, from voice and story to selling your work.
GhostwritingBook Promotion Tips for Authors
What promotion costs in time and money, which channels return anything at all, and the sequencing that separates a launch that works from one that vanishes in a week.
GhostwritingThe Emotional Truth Problem in Memoir
Memory does not record, it reconstructs. A memoir carries two kinds of truth, factual and emotional, and most writers only think about the first. Where the two diverge is where the book gets difficult.
GhostwritingGetting Published: Proposals, Beta Readers and the Rest
The parts of getting published that nobody explains properly. What a proposal has to prove before anyone reads the manuscript, what beta readers are genuinely for, and where the process stalls.
GhostwritingHe Called the References. They Were Mostly Negative.
A prospective client did the thing almost nobody does and rang the people I had worked with. What came back was not what either of us expected, and it was the most useful thing that happened that year.
GhostwritingWhat the 2024 Business Book ROI Study Actually Found
What does publishing a business book actually return? The 2024 ROI study put real numbers to it, surveying 301 published authors on revenue, credibility, and whether they would do it again. The answers upend a few common assumptions about where…
GhostwritingMemoir Structure Beyond Chronological
Chronological order is the default, and it is why most memoir drafts stall somewhere in the middle. Braided timelines, opening in the middle of the crisis, and frame narratives, with the case for each.
GhostwritingWhat Building 100 Model Kits Taught Me About Ghostwriting
A hundred plastic kits and fifty-four ghostwritten books turn out to have the same lesson in them, about sequence, about patience, and about the parts nobody will ever see once the thing is finished.