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January 25, 2018
by Martin Toseland

Choosing your ghostwriter – a subject that has been very well covered in other blogs on the United Ghostwriters website – is an active process. You find someone you feel you can talk to, work with, has the necessary experience and who fits in with your timetable. Ultimately you should feel you can trust the person you’ll be sharing your story with. But that should not signal the end of your preparations. To make the most of your collaboration, there are several extra steps you can take. They will save you time and money and you’ll end up with a

January 9, 2018January 9, 2018
by Ginny Carter

Decisions, decisions . . . For many prospective authors, choosing whether or not to work with a ghostwriter is a simple one. Saving time and effort, plus being able to feel confident in the quality of the end product, make hiring a ghostwriter a no-brainer. But for you, this decision might be a dilemma. How will the experience of writing your own book be different to that of working with a quality ghostwriter? What can you expect? And what are the pros and cons? To help you, I’ve taken the four key elements which make a difference between writing your

December 18, 2017December 18, 2017
by Ginny Carter

You’ve got something special to share in a book. It could be to help people with your expertise, tell your fascinating life story, or even explore a topic that everyone’s talking about. But there’s a niggle in your mind. A suspicion that you’ve missed something special for your readers. You know you’ve got a world-changing message to put out, but will your book reflect that? You need to know one thing. What’s the gold in your book? Because readers don’t buy books. Really. They buy solutions which encourage them to feel good. Even if your book advocates that they do some hard work to

December 14, 2017December 15, 2017
by ShannonKyle

This week, while I was interviewing my latest client, she expressed her fears about being ‘too honest’ with me. ‘You might think this sounds weird…’ she began nervously, as we explored her feelings about a particular part of her story. But I was quick to reassure her I appreciated her honesty and no, nothing (and I mean absolutely nothing) would make her seem weird to me. Since I began ghostwriting in 2009, I have written 14 books, including four Sunday Times bestsellers, and I can hand on heart say any book’s success is thanks to the author’s ability to be

December 5, 2017December 5, 2017
by Ian Shircore

There are 450,000 teachers in the UK, 236,000 doctors and 142,000 solicitors. There are also 55,000 authors. The teachers are overworked, the doctors are under huge pressure and the solicitors probably suffer in ways we can’t really imagine or sympathise with. But they do all get paid. The authors don’t. Of those 55,000 authors whose books are published each year, just 6,000 manage to scrape together a living wage. So if you want to be an author, to see your books in Waterstones and up there on Amazon, to influence the way people think and live their lives, I’ve got

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