How professional ghostwriting actually works, from client selection through interviews, outlining, and voice. The invisible craft made visible.
Authority Through AuthorshipNational Podcast Day falls on September 30. The word is barely twenty years old, Serial turned the format mainstream in 2014, and for authors a podcast does two jobs: it puts a writer in front of readers, and it's a…
Book MarketingBefore I write chapter one of any book, I build a reader avatar: one specific person the whole book is written to. A book or its PR aimed at everybody works for nobody, so I build the avatar first and…
GhostwritingAt 65, I'm not going to build a ghostwriting business that scales. Scaling means hiring other writers, and the client pays for it by losing the one person who knows their story.
Digital TransformationI'll start on the code before I even have a strategy, and it has cost me rework I hate. These days I go bottom-up and top-down at the same time, on software and on books.
Contracts and AgreementsWhen a ghostwriter goes silent mid-book, a week of ordinary follow-up is enough before you send written notice. Read the contract, recover your drafts and recordings, and set a firm date for hiring someone to finish.
Contracts and AgreementsA ghostwriting deadline should never slip without warning, because a working ghostwriter reports status as the book goes. When one does, fix the communication first, then the date.
GhostwritingYou can hate the first draft of a chapter and fix it in a week. Hating a whole ghostwritten manuscript means both sides waited too long, and the fix starts with sorting out exactly what's wrong.
Contracts and AgreementsOne or two revisions is enough when your ghostwriter delivers chapter by chapter and revises as the book goes. The contract should define what a revision is and handle new scope with a written change order.
Contracts and AgreementsA ghostwriter can write your book over Zoom, by phone or from the other side of the world. Richard Lowe explains how he runs remote projects, why many clients prefer the phone, and what to settle before you sign.
Authority Through AuthorshipScientists are trained to write for other scientists. That training produces books the public won't finish. A ghostwriter converts your research into a trade book while you stay the authority on every fact.
Authority Through AuthorshipTeachers collect twenty years of classroom stories and do nothing with them. A ghostwriter turns that material into a classroom memoir, a method book or a book for students while you keep teaching.
FamilyWriting a memoir about depression or mental illness can do you real good, and a ghostwriter takes the blank page off your hands. Pace the interviews to your health, keep your therapist in the loop, and decide early how much…
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