United Ghostwriters

“Someone might steal my idea!”

November 16, 2020November 17, 2020
by Ben Jeapes

“That text might have been plagiarised!” That was the attention-grabbing headline of a bit of spam that recently popped into the United Ghostwriters inbox. It was selling plagiarism-detecting software. “What are you doing to protect United Ghostwriters from the effects of unwanted plagiarism?” it went on. You’re preaching to the wrong choir, mate. We don’t and won’t steal from other people; we’re capable of writing our own stuff, thanks. But let’s talk about plagiarism. Call it what you will: plagiarism, passing off, idea theft – these are important issues and we take them very seriously. They can also be taken

November 10, 2020November 10, 2020
by Simon Rae

A few weeks back I opened my copy of The Author, journal of the Society of Authors. For the first time I could remember in over twenty years of membership, the magazine contained not one but two articles on ghostwriting. Talk about waiting for a bus. Not that I had been, particularly, in that although I have been a published author for three decades, I have only recently become a ghostwriter. Anyway, I read the articles by Tom Henry and Andrew Crofts with interest and much agreement. One stand-out question was: ‘Are ghostwriters real writers?’ The answer was a resounding

November 4, 2020November 4, 2020
by Martin Toseland

Only four days in and November really hasn’t been the best, has it? Without repeating every line of the list of rubbish things that have happened and those that are, as I write, ‘rubbish-in-progress’, the first week of November 2020 is fast becoming the very model of Rubbish First Weeks. One item on that list which has really got to me is that, as a consequence of England’s second lockdown, bookshops will close along with pubs, restaurants, gyms and all other ‘non-essential’ businesses. Whatever the rights and wrongs of the decision, the prospect of the potentially terminal damage to those

October 20, 2020October 20, 2020
by PhilipWhiteley

The law’s delay and the insolence of office are listed, in arguably the English language’s most sublime speech, as examples of the natural shocks that we humans will encounter, simply through the act of being born. This has not changed since Shakespeare’s day. When the wait for justice becomes unacceptably long, people look for other ways to have their case heard. From time to time, as a ghostwriter, I am contacted by individuals who declare themselves to be whistleblowers. They have witnessed health and safety breaches, bullying, price fixing or worse, and they feel that they haven’t been heard. Each

October 14, 2020October 14, 2020
by Ginny Carter

It’s an exciting moment when you first start working on your book. And it can be tempting to dive straight in and start writing. Or, if you’re lucky enough to have a ghostwriter to do the heavy lifting for you, to pitch up to your first meeting with all sorts of ideas buzzing around in your head. However, this is the moment when it pays to step back, take a deep breath, and gather your thoughts. Because a book that’s well thought through from the beginning will almost certainly turn out to be better than one that flows from your

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