Business BooksA business book's title is the first argument it makes, the concept the author attaches their name to in every conversation for as long as it is in print. Finding the right one for Joe Rockey's book took several candidates…
Business BooksPeople picture a ghostwriter having one good conversation and then writing the book. Mine is different. By the time Joe Rockey and I finished, we had spent the equivalent of a full workday across multiple structured sessions, and the reason…
Business BooksMost business books fail at their real job, not selling or reviews, but producing clients, credibility, and conversations with the right people, because the author built the wrong book. There are two kinds: one written for the public, and one…
Business BooksThe biggest mistake ghostwriters make is starting too soon. Before I write a single word, I interview the author across multiple recorded sessions, more than twenty prepared questions plus all the follow-up, not to learn their field but to capture…
Contracts and AgreementsSometimes the ghostwriter relationship fails, wrong voice, stalled pace, broken communication, lost trust, and a mid-project firing, while rare, happens. Here is how to tell a genuinely broken relationship from a rough patch, how to extract the work you have…
GhostwritingThe manuscript landed and the voice is wrong, the argument is yours, the structure is yours, but the prose reads like a stranger wrote it. Here is why that happens, the four root causes to diagnose before you react, and…
Book CoachingVoice mismatch is the number-one reason ghostwriting projects fail, and the questions you ask before signing decide whether the manuscript sounds like you when it lands. Here are ten questions focused narrowly on voice and style, each built to reveal…
Book LaunchMost ghostwriters vanish at delivery; the best stay through launch and beyond. Here is what yours should be able to help with once the manuscript is done, pitch packages, back-cover copy, podcast-tour materials, content repurposing, keynote scripts drawn from the…
Book WritingMost ghostwriting timelines online are wrong because they treat word count as the only variable. A serious project runs four to eight months, and the spread depends on whether the source material exists yet, how available the author is for…
FreelancingThe April 16, 2019 hour: editor before proofreader, cover designers versus graphic designers, Bowker ISBN packs and library cataloging blocks, styles-not-manual-formatting, the $1,000-a-book origin and the $15,000 contract one day later, seven hats priced honestly, the full contract walkthrough, and…
Author BusinessThe March 21, 2019 Voice America interview: ghostwriting as method acting across six to twelve simultaneous voices, 50-cents-a-word pricing with 25 percent down, why one keynote pays the book back, the process from free consultation to handshake termination, and why…
Career StorySage the Poet hosts Richard Lowe for a full interview hour on ghostwriting: the childhood Asimov dream, the leap from Trader Joe's, market research before writing, contract clauses that protect the writer, scope creep, revision limits, rates, pen names, plagiarism,…
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