United Ghostwriters

HOW TO DATE A GHOST

August 12, 2018August 12, 2018
by Martin Toseland

You walk into the coffee shop, searching intently for the person who matches the emailed description. In the corner, a person sits at a table looking around, fiddling with a bag of sugar. You make eye contact, fashion your facial muscles into a half smile and raise your eyebrows enquiringly. The person nods. You walk over, shake hands, look into their eyes again and ask yourself: is there chemistry? Is this someone I can spend time with, someone who will trust me, someone I can understand? Can we create something together? No, not a first date but a first meeting

July 30, 2018July 31, 2018
by Emma Murray

A big part of what we do as ghostwriters is to write in the voice of our clients. This is why interviews are so important because they offer us a chance to understand the person’s point of view, the way they talk, and the method in which they describe scenarios, or relay certain information. But now and then, we get approached by someone who prefers our voice over theirs. Not long ago, I was contacted by a businessman from Germany to write a business memoir. While he had excellent spoken English, he did not like the way his personality came

July 27, 2018
by PhilipWhiteley

While I nurtured vague ambitions to be an author as a young man, I made sure I combined impactful life experiences with learning the craft of journalism. After volunteering to help London’s homeless, I backpacked around Europe, taught myself Spanish in Chile, and worked in Nicaragua towards the end of the Sandinista regime. This was my apprenticeship. Or so I assumed. Yet while I was accumulating what I thought were valuable insights, and trying to earn a living wage from journalism, the fashion in literature changed. Since the publication of The Remains of the Day and Atonement in the 1990s,

July 19, 2018July 20, 2018
by Teena Lyons

I am not a gambling person, but I would be prepared to put a small wager on the fact the phrase my fellow United Ghosts most often hear from prospective authors is: Everyone tells me I should write a book. In fact, if you are scanning this website with a view to writing one, it’s probably something you’ve heard once or twice yourself. I’m not knocking it. After all, writing books is my bread and butter, so it is a marriage made in heaven. However, I am also very keen to write books that will sell. Let me say from

July 11, 2018July 11, 2018
by ShannonKyle

When it comes to writing, self-doubt is part of the process, as much as typing, editing and re-writing are. But it’s the one emotion few of us writers openly talk about. Recently I was at an event where someone told me that a multi-millionaire author who has had numerous Sunday Times bestsellers (the first was turned into a major film) openly suffers from crippling self-doubt. A baffling concept which also made me wonder; ‘God, if they doubt themselves, what hope is there for the rest of us?’ Self-doubt. Saying it out loud might make us seem more vulnerable than we

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