Ghostwriting
Your story, your voice, written by someone whose job it is
Ghostwriting is mostly interviewing. We spend twenty to thirty hours in recorded conversation, and I go away and turn that into chapters that sound like you on your best day. The test is not whether the prose is good. It is whether the people who know you read it and hear you.
What's included
- Twenty to thirty hours of recorded interviews, scheduled around your life
- A chapter-by-chapter outline you approve before any drafting starts
- Drafts delivered a chapter at a time, so nothing goes badly for long
- Two full revision passes across the completed manuscript
- A confidentiality agreement, and my name nowhere near the cover unless you want it there
Worth asking any editor
This is the most expensive thing on this page by a wide margin, and it is the one most likely to be the wrong purchase. If you actually want to write the book yourself, coaching costs a fraction and you end up with a book you wrote.
★★★★★
“My family read it and said it sounded exactly like me telling a story at the table. That was the whole assignment.”
See the edit before you buy the edit
Send your first ten pages and I will edit them properly and send the notes back, free. Not a summary of what I would do, the actual marked-up pages. If those notes are not worth having, we both learned something cheaply and you owe me nothing.
Thinking about ghostwriting?
Send the first ten pages. I will edit them properly and send the marked pages back within a week, free.