Anyone who’s been in therapy knows that the professional sitting in front of them speaks in neutral and objective tones to provide a safe, non-judgmental environment where the person can explore the deepest thoughts, feelings, and issues without fear of bias or criticism. A good ghostwriter does the same thing for you. If you’re considering…
Why else might someone hire a ghostwriter? “There’s a book here somewhere. I just need someone to help me find it.” “I have specific goals for my book. I need to reach the right audience to meet those goals.” “I know a professional can do a better job than me.” These are three other reasons…
Why hire a ghostwriter? “I know I’m not a writer.” “I don’t have the time.” “I don’t know how to turn my experiences into a book.” “I want a better book than I could produce alone.” “I want to achieve something beyond the book itself.” When I think about why my clients have sought to…
When I meet a prospect for the first time, I always ask four questions. The second one is, “Who is your target audience?” In many cases, the prospect will say, “everybody,” to which I respond, “Well, no book is for everyone. The widest read book is the Bible, and not everybody reads it.” Usually, the…
I recently began a course on AI programs, specifically what artificial intelligence can do for ghostwriters. The first or four two-hour sessions dealt with how it can generate material, identify and recognize patterns, and transform a rough version into something more polished and complete. What I learned primarily was the importance of the prompt, the…
I saw a report from Verified Market Research that valued the ghostwriting market at about $3.3 billion in 2024 and that it was expected to reach $6.2 billion by 2032. A different report, from HTF Marketing Intelligence in 2023, forecast the market’s value to reach $8 billion in 2030. I would say both reports didn’t…
As a member of the human ghostwriters club, I have had numerous clients who insisted on particular stories in their manuscript. In one case, it was memory after memory about his mother. In another, it was a fishing trip gone to hell. In a third, it was numerous sailboat trips around the Mediterranean and across…
Today, I’m writing about AI slop. Similar to spam, it’s low-quality, high-volume copy (and images, though that’s not relevant here) AI creates to fill space, trick algorithms, clog the internet and monetize clicks rather than provide anything valuable. Ghostwriters need to pay attention to this trend…because it can make them rich. They are now being…
As part of my service, I often introduce my ghostwriting clients to various humans how edit because if they want their manuscript published, it needs to be edited, and I as ghostwriter can’t do it. One client at first declined my offer to introduce him to editors because “I’m undecided about going to an editor…
The manuscripts are almost done. After more than a year of conversing, probing, analyzing, writing, receiving feedback, and rewriting, I have two clients who appear to be backsliding. One client rewrote the entire manuscript, in the process ignoring the outline we agreed on and the feedback from his brother, a journalist who wrote his own…
