I’m Richard Lowe, a ghostwriter and author based just across the bay in Clearwater, on Florida’s Gulf Coast. Tampa is close enough that I’m over there regularly, and unlike most of the “local” ghostwriters you’ll find online, I’m not an out-of-state agency with your city pasted into a template. I actually live in the Tampa Bay area, and I know Tampa well.
Why Tampa
If there’s a serious business or technology convention anywhere on this coast, it’s almost always in Tampa. The alternative is Orlando, which is too far for a half-day event, so Tampa is where the region’s professional life happens. Over the years I’ve been to a good number of those conventions at the downtown convention center on the waterfront, and they’re a large part of how I stay connected to the business and tech world I write about.
One in particular stands out: a cybersecurity convention that was genuinely interesting and turned into real networking, with a few solid contacts I kept. The business conventions are always worth the trip too, even if a day on the floor in Florida’s humidity can wear you down. The point is that Tampa is where the people with technical and business stories actually gather, and those are exactly the people whose books I’m built to write.
I’m a photographer as well as a writer, and Tampa gives a camera plenty to do, from the Riverwalk and the downtown skyline to the water itself. The same eye that finds a photograph in a busy street is the one I bring to a manuscript: noticing what matters, and framing it so a reader sees it too.
What I Actually Do
I take your ideas, your expertise, and your story and turn them into a finished book that reads as if you wrote it on your best day. You stay the author; your name goes on the cover. I’ve written more than 113 books under my own name, including the Kindle bestseller Focus on LinkedIn, and ghostwritten over 54 for other people across a wide range of subjects.
How I Work
Every book starts with a conversation. I do an initial interview to draw out the shape of the book and build a working outline. From there we go deep, twenty to forty interviews depending on the size and complexity of the book. Those interviews are where your real voice and knowledge come out, and they’re the raw material everything else is built from.
I use AI tools to help structure the overview outline, which you then approve before any writing begins. Then we work chapter by chapter. For each chapter I build an outline first, write the chapter myself, and send it to you. You approve it or ask for changes, I revise, and we go back and forth until that chapter is right, usually about a week per chapter. You get revisions as we go, plus one full revision pass at the end once the whole manuscript is drafted. Nothing gets locked in without your sign-off.
How long the whole thing takes depends on length. A 30,000-word book generally runs about four months through the writing; an 80,000-word book is more like seven to eight. I’d rather give you an honest timeline than a flattering one.
Local Clients Welcome
Most of my work is done remotely, and the interview-and-draft process works just as well over a call as in person. But Tampa is an easy drive from my home base, so local clients are welcome to meet face to face. I usually meet clients on the Pinellas side, at the Safety Harbor Resort and Spa, though for a Tampa client I’m happy to cross the bay. There’s something about starting a book over a good meal, in person, that a phone call can’t quite match.
The Technical Difference
Here’s what most ghostwriters can’t offer: before I wrote books, I spent decades in information technology: data centers, systems, the demanding technical side of the business world. That means I can write the books most ghostwriters quietly turn down. Artificial intelligence. Digital transformation. Cybersecurity. Machine learning. The Internet of Things. If your book lives in a technical or business space, you won’t spend the first month teaching your ghostwriter what you do. I already speak the language, which is exactly why those Tampa cybersecurity and business conventions felt like home rather than homework.
That’s rare. Most ghostwriters are generalists who’ll happily write your memoir and then struggle the moment the subject turns technical. I’m the opposite: a writer who came out of the technical world, not one trying to fake his way into it.
Common Questions
Do I keep the rights to my book?
Yes. You keep all rights and all credit. It’s your book and your name on it. I’m rarely listed on the cover, usually just acknowledged on the copyright page or in the back, if at all.
Is the book written by AI?
No. I use AI to help structure outlines, but I write every chapter myself, and you approve each one. The thinking, the writing, and the back-and-forth that makes a book sound like you is human work.
How long will my book take?
It depends on length. Roughly four months for a 30,000-word book and seven to eight months for an 80,000-word book, including the interviews, the chapter-by-chapter writing, and the final revision pass.
Do you work with Tampa clients in person or remotely?
Both. Most of my work is remote, but Tampa is an easy drive from my Pinellas base, so local clients are welcome to meet in person, usually in Safety Harbor or across the bay in Tampa.
Nearby and related
Tampa sits just across the bay from my home turf. You might also be looking at Clearwater, my home base, Safety Harbor, where I meet local clients, the wider Pinellas County area, or ghostwriting across Florida.
Let’s Talk
If you’re in Tampa, anywhere in the Tampa Bay area, or across the water in Pinellas County, and you’ve got a book in you that isn’t getting written, let’s have a conversation. The first consultation is free and there’s no pressure. You tell me about your book; I’ll tell you honestly whether I’m the right person to write it.
Set up a free consultation, and let’s get your book started.