The interview is the ghostwriter’s primary tool and the podcaster’s entire show. These articles cover interviewing as a craft: asking questions that unlock real answers, listening past the rehearsed version, and turning recorded conversation into usable material.
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.
FamilyA ghostwriter can turn the stories of everyone who knew a person into a tribute book. Richard Lowe explains how a tribute book differs from a eulogy or obituary, what the family needs to gather, and why the flaws belong…
Hiring a GhostwriterA musician's memoir is just another memoir, with two traps: the people still around to read it, and lyrics you don't control anymore. A ghostwriter who knows memoir handles both.
Hiring a GhostwriterA pilot's memoir is just another memoir, except that other pilots will read it and catch every wrong radio call. A ghostwriter who learns your aircraft and a chapter-by-chapter accuracy review keep the book credible.
FamilyAn immigrant's crossing belongs on paper before the last person who remembers it is gone. A ghostwriter can work through a translator and the family's records to write it, whether the story is yours or your grandmother's.
GhostwritingWhat a good ghostwriter asks, how light the preparation should be, and why going blank, crying or feeling boring won't stop your book.
AI WritingAn AI detector looks like a breathalyzer and works nothing like one. It measures resemblance, not residue, and careful editing is what makes honest writing fail it.
GhostwritingMost authors do not know there is a choice. The billing model you agree to decides what happens when you travel for three weeks or the business has a bad quarter.
GhostwritingHalfway through an interview session I stop and ask a question that has nothing to do with the chapter: are we still meeting the goal? That break is the difference between a ghostwriter and a manuscript vendor.
Book LaunchAn agency posted its production schedule: sixteen weeks, contract to finished book, broken out week by week. It answers three questions the sales call never gets to, and every one of them matters more than the total.
AI WritingA new client arrived with 45,000 words she had bought from an AI service. She still hired a ghostwriter, because the tool never supplies the material. The story was in her. The manuscript was around it.
GhostwritingA former government official hired me for a policy memoir. What the interviews found was the night he chose to save his family. The book someone describes is rarely the book that is there.
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