DefamationYour story is yours, but the people in it have rights of their own. A memoir ghostwriter explains release forms, photo and letter permissions, libel insurance and what a legal read catches.
HealthA ghostwriter can help you write a cancer or serious illness memoir from recorded interviews, at a pace your health allows. When to start, how much medical detail belongs in it, and how to handle the parts you can't yet…
FamilyPersonal historians, oral historians, biographers and memoir ghostwriters all help record a life, and each delivers something different. Ask whose voice the book will be in, whose name goes on it, and whether you'll get a book or a box…
FearHe sold six companies and told me chapter eleven reads like a highlight reel. It does. That is the premise, and the problem is almost never too much achievement.
DialogueHis father said you will never amount to anything. Or did he? Memory reconstructs dialogue, it does not record it, and the quotation marks are what turn a memory into a claim.
FictionEvery chapter is addressed to four people who will never read it. That is when I suggest we write it as a novel, change the names, and move the industry.
GhostwritingEight months is what you are buying, and almost none of it is writing. Nobody assesses that from an email thread, which is why the call is not a formality.
GhostwritingHe signs, he pays, he says next week. Next week does not come. Some of these files are ten years old now and I still have them.
Book ProposalDecades of experience only become a readable memoir with structure. How to choose an organizing principle, decide what stays, and shape raw memory into a book someone wants to read.
Book ReviewsSona Movsesian's book about thirteen years as Conan O'Brien's assistant is a comedy bit stretched to full length, but it's smarter than it sounds. Under the jokes about napping at work and watching television on the clock sits a real…
AgingPetrow started this book as a list of what his parents were doing wrong. Then they died while he was writing it, and the whole thing changed, the tone, the point, everything. By the end, he's writing instructions to himself…
Book ReviewsJoe Pfeifer was in the North Tower lobby when the first plane hit, running the initial response with no working radios and no way to know his younger brother Kevin was dying in the stairwell above him. This book follows…
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