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THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION & TECHNOLOGY BOOK SYSTEM

PHASE 1: WHY THIS BOOK?
(Your Strategic Reason)
  • Own the category you helped build
  • Win higher-value consulting work
  • Establish thought leadership
  • Turn hard-won lessons into a system
  • Get cited instead of compared on price
  • Leave a record of what you learned
PHASE 2: DISCOVERY
(Surfacing the Expertise)
You Explain
→
We Probe
→
The Thesis Emerges
  • Methodology and structure sessions
  • War stories and what they taught
  • The patterns nobody writes about
  • Your real argument takes shape
PHASE 3: ARCHITECTURE
(Structuring the Book)
  • Clear thesis and through-line
  • Logical chapter progression
  • Frameworks made usable
  • Case studies placed for impact
  • The argument that holds up
Your expertise + professional structure = a book leaders finish and act on
PHASE 4: CREATION
(The Division of Labor)
You: 20%The Writing King: 80%
  • You: expertise, direction, review, approval
  • The Writing King: structure, prose, craft, polish
PHASE 5: REFINEMENT
(Sharpen Until It Lands)
  • Draft review rounds
  • Your corrections integrated
  • Technical accuracy verified
  • Final approval: YOU decide
Draft

Done

PHASE 6: LAUNCH
(Optional Package)
  • Publishing path guidance
  • Ebook + print editions
  • Distribution setup
  • Authority and pipeline strategy

✓ Signs You’re Ready

✓You led transformations others only theorize about
✓You explain the same lessons over and over
✓You have a method but it lives in your head
✓You want to own a category, not chase leads
✓You have the expertise but not the time
✓Ready to invest in a serious book

📈 What Your Book Can Do

🏛️
Own the Category
💼
Win Bigger Clients
🎤
Land Speaking & Stages
🧭
Turn Method into IP
📈
Shorten Sales Cycles
🏆
Cement Your Authority

💎 The Investment

Priced per word

Transparent per-word pricing with monthly advance payments. The current rate is on the ghostwriting services page. Business and authority books typically run in these word-count ranges:

30K-50K words
Focused Structure Book (30,000-50,000 words)

→

50K-70K words
Standard Authority Book (50,000-70,000 words)

→

70K+ words
Comprehensive / Reference (70,000+ words)

Timeline: 3-6 months from kickoff to finished manuscript. You own the manuscript completely.

“You Did the Work. The Book Makes You the Source.”

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Frequently Asked Questions

Can you handle the technical material?
Yes. The Writing King spent 33 years in enterprise technology, including 20 years as Director of Computer Operations and Technical Services, and personally led two enterprise digital transformations: one automating back-end processes that had been manual for years, the other automating warehouses. On top of that, he has ghostwritten three digital transformation books for clients. The technical and political complexity of this work is familiar territory. You can go deep without stopping to translate every term.
How long does it take to write a business or transformation book?
Most run three to six months from first interview to finished manuscript. A tightly scoped structure book finishes at the faster end. A research-heavy, case-study-driven, or highly technical book runs longer. Your availability matters too: weekly interviews and quick chapter reviews keep the project moving. The discovery call is where a realistic timeline gets set against your specific book.
Will the book sound like me, or like a generic business book?
It sounds like you. The early interviews are partly about content and partly about how you argue, explain, and frame problems. The first chapters come back written in your voice. If something is off, you say so and the next pass corrects it. I iterate the early chapters until you read a draft and say it sounds like you at your sharpest. Then I write the rest of the book in the voice you approved.
My material is confidential and some of it is under NDA. Can you handle that?
Yes. Discretion is standard. Confidential client details, proprietary methods, and anything under NDA are handled accordingly. Where a story matters and a client or employer can’t be named, I tell it in a way that keeps the lesson and protects the identity. A nondisclosure agreement covers the project from start to finish.
Who owns the rights to the book?
You do, completely. The arrangement is work-for-hire. That means you are the sole copyright holder the moment the manuscript is delivered. You publish it under your name, license it, build a course or keynote from it, or do nothing with it at all. The Writing King has no claim on royalties, derivative rights, or future earnings. It is written into the Statement of Work before any work begins.
What if I have a methodology but no outline?
That is a normal starting point. Some clients arrive with a fully developed structure and a clear table of contents. Others arrive with a decade of strong opinions and patterns that have never been organized into a system. The interview process builds whatever you have into a complete structure with a clear argument, before I write a single chapter. If you arrive with an outline, it gets pressure-tested first. If you arrive with scattered expertise, the early interviews develop it into a working structure you approve.
How does the collaboration work?
It starts with structured interviews over video call, recorded with your permission, covering your methodology, your war stories, the patterns you see, and the argument you want the book to make. From there, The Writing King builds an outline you approve, then writes the book in stages, sending chapters for your review as it develops. You stay involved throughout, including correcting anything technical that is not exactly right, so the book never drifts from what you intended.
What is included in the investment?
Full-service ghostwriting at the published per-word rate covers discovery and interviews, outlining, the complete manuscript, structural editing, and revision rounds based on your feedback. Pricing is locked in your Statement of Work before work starts. Publishing and launch support is available as a separate package if you want help getting the book in front of the right readers.
What makes The Writing King different for a transformation or tech book?
Most ghostwriters write about business and technology from the outside. The Writing King led two enterprise digital transformations himself and has ghostwritten three transformation books, on top of 33 years in enterprise IT and 54+ ghostwritten projects across 113+ books authored in total. That means he has sat in your chair and written this exact book before. You get a ghostwriter who understands the work, the stakes, and the politics, not one learning your field on your project.

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