United Ghostwriters

We’re stuck with English

October 26, 2018
by PhilipWhiteley

Last month, on the UG blog, we covered how modern communications technology facilitates international collaborations between people who rarely, or perhaps never, actually meet. There is a closely linked theme around the dominance of the English language. This has grown in recent decades. I recall visiting a trade fair in northern Italy in the late 1980s with many visitors from the eastern Mediterranean, where the common language was French. Nowadays, with the rise of China and Pacific trade, and the internationalization of business education based on the US model, English is the lingua franca (why isn’t there an English phrase

October 16, 2018October 16, 2018
by Teena Lyons

So, you’ve decided to work with a ghostwriter. Congratulations. Or, maybe you are just thinking about it. It’s still a good call. The issue you have now is: how do you choose the right ghost for you? On this website there are 13 hugely talented, professional ghosts, all with an enviable record of bestsellers and award-winning books. Take a look at our profiles. We’re all awesome. Ok, I may actually be making the whole decision-making process worse. Let me help you break it down. First and foremost, the goal is to find a ghost who ‘gets’ you. In other words,

October 11, 2018
by ChrisWest

Writing a book is an enormous task. It makes it seem a little less enormous to break it down into stages. The Basics. Your Elevator Pitch. Some people may balk at this, asking angrily what the Elevator Pitch of War and Peace is. But most books benefit from having a basic premise, a basic something that makes them special. If Tolstoy were looking for a book deal today, he might say something like ‘A group of people search for meaningful lives against the background of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia’. Your Target Readership. Think who the book is for. Managers? Women

October 2, 2018
by ChrisWest

The term ‘ghostwriter’ conjures up certain images. Ghostwriters are invisible. Nobody apart from the named author and the publisher knows who she is. No moans or rattling chains for these ghosts. They are also imitators. Ghostwriters have a chameleon-like quality that enables them to write with other people’s voices. ‘You always end up sounding like me’ is a great compliment to a ghost. The reality is more complex. Some ‘ghostees’ insist on total secrecy. Others like to have the ghost on the cover (‘by Fred Bloggs with Joanna Doe’), out of respect or because they think the ghost’s name will

September 25, 2018September 25, 2018
by Ian Shircore

OK, OK. What’s so good about Killing Eve? Well, the short answer is ‘Almost everything’. OK, so it’s a load of hokum about an icily gorgeous, ridiculously athletic, wittily multilingual, sexually ambivalent, engagingly psychopathic assassin and the woman who sets out to bring her to justice. But isn’t everything on telly like that these days? More or less. Give or take the odd detail. Killing Eve has so much going for it. The casting and direction are terrific and the three female leads – Sandra Oh, Jodie Comer and Fiona Shaw – all give stunning performances. The plot, though, is

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