The first question every prospective author asks is “what does a ghostwriter cost.” These posts give the real answer: pricing tiers, the complexity behind the number, what a book actually costs to produce, and why a book is one of the best investments a business can make.
Book CoachingLooking for an affordable ghostwriter? Here is what ghostwriting actually costs, why cheap ghostwriters backfire, and the real budget options: coaching, handbooks, and prep. From a ghostwriter with 54+ completed books.
Book ROI & Business CasePeople ask me to ghostwrite for free more than you would believe, offering exposure, royalty splits, or a vague favor in exchange for a supposed bestseller. The answer is always no. Here is what the money actually buys, why cheap…
GhostwritingA free consult and a paid Book Discovery Intensive do two different jobs. The free call tells you whether you might want to work together; the Intensive proves whether the book will actually happen, because you leave with a real…
Book CoachingExecutives usually sense a book would help before they can prove it, and what they want is data to justify the spend. The 2024 ROI study delivers it: a median of $92,500 in revenue tied to ghostwritten business books. Here…
Becoming a GhostwriterI charge $1 a word, which puts a typical book between $50,000 and $80,000. When prospects hear that, some of them simply disappear. Rejection is part of this business, and almost no one talks honestly about it. Here is how…
Book CoachingNo, ghostwriters do not get royalties, not as standard practice and not on any of my 54+ projects. I charge by the word with milestone payments tied to real deliverables, so the work gets paid as it gets written. Here…
Book ProposalA book proposal is not a summary of your book; it is a business case arguing that the book will sell, the readers are real, and you are the one to write it, the document that lands a traditional deal.…
Becoming a GhostwriterI once wrote 25,000 words for $1,000 at a ghostwriting shop. Now a single book project runs $50,000 or more. In this interview I walk through exactly how that shift happened, from the confidence to raise rates to the business…
Book CoachingGhostwriting a book runs anywhere from $10,000 to $150,000, a range too wide to mean anything without context. Here is what those numbers actually buy at each level, why a dollar a word is competitive, and the simple math behind…
Book ROI & Business CaseYou have expertise worth a book and want to know the real number. Here is the honest market: pricing tiers from $8,000 to $65,000, what each one buys, and how payment works. The short version, ChatGPT gives you 50,000 words…
For Executives & ProfessionalsWhy 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+…
Becoming a GhostwriterGetting paid to write is harder than it should be, but hard is not impossible. The writers who earn well are rarely the most talented, they are the ones who treat writing as a business. Here is what that actually…
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