GhostwritingPeople cry in ghostwriting interviews all the time, and it usually means you've reached the part of your story that matters most. Here's what a good ghostwriter does, and how to stay in control of the pace.
GhostwritingA ghostwriter does far more than type your words. Here is the real scope of the role, what it costs, and the honest question behind putting your book off.
Contracts and AgreementsA ghostwriter can end a contract, and a fair one spells out when and how. Here's why it happens, what you're owed, and how to keep it from happening to your book.
Contracts and AgreementsMost ghostwriters work alone, and a solo professional is one illness away from an unfinished book. Here's how to protect your drafts, recordings and money before anything happens.
GhostwritingA little of a ghostwriter's own story can help an interview. Too much steals the time you're paying for and thins your book. Here's how much a ghostwriter should talk and how to redirect one who won't stop.
Contracts and AgreementsA ghostwritten book can come in short for good reasons and bad ones. Here's how to tell which, whether shorter is worse, and how to add length without padding.
Contracts and AgreementsYou can switch ghostwriters in the middle of a book without losing what you've paid for. Here's how to get your files, brief the new writer and keep the project moving.
GhostwritingThe fear that hiring help means surrendering the wheel: the writer's structure, the writer's ideas, your name on someone else's book. The actual control map of a professional engagement.
Business BooksBefore the full manuscript, I write one chapter, send it over, and ask a single question: does this sound like you? Not is it accurate, not is it well-written, does it sound like you. Voice is what makes a ghostwritten…
Business BooksI turn down more projects than I take, because after fourteen years I have learned the wrong client costs more than no client. When Joe Rockey came to me about a business book, I already knew him through Eliances and…
Business BooksThe interviews are done and the knowledge base is built, and now comes the hardest part: turning all of it into a structure that holds. An outline for a business book is not a table of contents; it is the…
Business BooksMidway through discovery, almost every client asks the same thing: how much of this actually goes in the book? It is the right question, and the answer shapes the whole second half: principles, not application, share the thinking generously and…
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