A traditional deal usually starts with a proposal, not a finished book. These articles cover writing the proposal that lands an agent or editor. What they look for, what makes them say no, and how to give them a reason to say yes.
Book ProposalA ghostwriter can't get you a book deal or an agent, though an experienced one knows people who can. Here's how three ghostwritten books reached traditional publishers, and why I steer most clients elsewhere.
Book ProposalDecades of experience only become a readable memoir with structure. How to choose an organizing principle, decide what stays, and shape raw memory into a book someone wants to read.
Book ProposalA book proposal is a business pitch, not an audition for your prose. Editors are asking whether they can sell it, not whether it is beautiful. Learn to make
Book ProposalThe traditional publishing questions answered straight: proposal contents, agent expectations, rejection realities, timelines, and when the route is worth it.
Author PlatformMost book-proposal advice assumes a big platform. If you have a small audience but real expertise, the proposal has to carry the weight a platform usually would. Here is exactly what changes, what publishers actually look for from low-platform authors,…
AudiobookThe writer's fee is the biggest line item in a ghostwritten book, but far from the only one. A real budget folds in editing, design, publishing, and the optional-but-valuable extras, proposal, marketing, audio. Authors who plan only for the fee…
Amazon & KDPClients usually know they want a book and have barely thought about how it reaches readers, but that choice decides control, speed, money, and whether the book does its job. Three paths are worth weighing. Here is traditional, self-publishing, and…
Book ProposalA professional ghostwriter can turn your expertise into a finished manuscript with your name on the cover, but finding the right one takes effort. Here are 14 questions to ask during your consultation, and what the answers tell you.
Book ProposalCelebrities are the smallest part of it. Executives and founders, coaches, athletes, families, people writing in a second language and people with hard stories hire ghostwriters, and more of them lately tried AI first. Here's who uses ghostwriters and why.
Book ProposalFamilies talk themselves out of memoirs with beliefs that don't hold up: the subject isn't famous enough, memory has gaps, it's too late, the book has to be published. Here's what's true instead, and the one belief that is right.
Authority Through AuthorshipAfter ghostwriting 54+ books, the patterns are clear. Certain decisions produce books that generate speaking invitations and consulting leads; others produce books that disappear. Here are the dos and don'ts that make the difference.
Authority Through AuthorshipNothing loses a reader faster in a political book than campaign-ad language, the sweeping promise, the slogan that means nothing. Voters have heard it and been let down, and a book that reads like a stump speech gets treated like…
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