GhostwritingEvery writer knows the blinking cursor at 11 PM and the client's face falling over a draft that missed. A handful of old laws from engineering and military strategy, Murphy's, Kidlin's, Gilbert's, explain almost everything that goes right and wrong…
GhostwritingMost people who contact me already know their subject; what they do not know is how to turn a subject into a book. An executive who wants to write about leadership has territory, not yet a topic. Here is how…
GhostwritingA holiday poem in the spirit of Clement Clarke Moore, rewritten for the author with a book trapped inside them and the ghostwriter who shows up to coax it out. It is light seasonal reading, but the relief running through…
GhostwritingOne client critiqued every sentence in real time, eight hours a day, until a quibble over and versus but became a two-hour standoff. At $175 an hour the money was real, but so was the strain. Across fifty-plus projects I…
GhostwritingWhy pay so much when they are just typing up my ideas? It is the most common assumption about ghostwriting, and the most wrong. The work is research, fact-checking, voice matching, mid-project pivots, and relentless collaboration, not transcription. After 54+…
GhostwritingHiring a ghostwriter is a smart decision, but it is not like hiring a contractor and walking away. The best books come from clients who know how to stay involved without getting in the way. Here is how to support…
GhostwritingNorth America's comic and graphic novel market tops $2 billion a year, and creators are noticing it reaches readers traditional books never will. But a comic script is not prose, it needs visual pacing, tight dialogue, panel structure, and most…
GhostwritingA rock star once called me with a whole post-apocalyptic world running on sound waves, vivid, passionate, and completely unbuilt. That is the typical sci-fi client: a dazzling vision and no framework to turn it into a novel. World-building, internal…
GhostwritingAn insurance professional hired me to write a short book explaining, in plain language, the thing his clients were paying for but never understood. He handed it out instead of a brochure, and it did not get thrown away. Here…
GhostwritingSome people want a ghostwriter to do the work; others want to write the book themselves and see their own name on something they truly made. For the second group, there is coaching. With 113+ books behind me, here is…
GhostwritingSome clients hire me to write the whole book; others want to write it themselves and just need someone who has done it before walking beside them. That second path is coaching. Here is what it actually looks like session…
GhostwritingMost of what you pay a ghostwriter for happens before a chapter reaches you: interviews, transcripts and summaries, research, structure, drafting, revisions and months of project management. Here's where the money goes, stage by stage, and what gets skipped when…
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