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Ghostwriting.. what actually is it?

June 13, 2017June 27, 2017
by ShannonKyle

Raised eyebrows, a confused look, lots of questions, that’s the usual response I get when I tell people my job is a ghostwriter. To date, I have written memoirs for most genres, from the first hand account of a coal miner’s wife who picketed alongside her husband in the 1980’s to TV celebrities, to one of the bravest whistle-blowers in sport. The age range of my authors is from 27 to 86- years- old and their stories all have one thing in common- they are extraordinary. ‘Sounds exciting,’ people tell me, and sometimes this is spot on. I have been

May 30, 2017June 27, 2017
by Emma Murray

One of the most common questions people ask me is how I find work. The answer? Frenemies. So what are frenemies and why are they so useful? In the business world, a ‘fremeny’ is a person you regard as a friend but also as an ‘enemy’ or a competitor. Over the years my frenemies (in my case, fellow freelance professional writers and ghostwriters) have largely kept me in business not only through referrals but also by generously swapping notes and sharing information. But it’s not only the freelance world that benefits from frenemies. Over the last few years, big businesses

May 22, 2017June 27, 2017
by PhilipWhiteley

There’s a certain mystique about writing, especially when you’ve had a book or two published. Perhaps that mystique has faded in the past few years, when it has become easier and cheaper to have a professional-looking opus produced and for sale in online bookshops, but I still feel proud to be able to call myself ‘author’ on Linked-in. I’ve found that it comes with certain assumptions, however, not all of which apply to all authors. Above all, people have warned me that it ‘won’t make me rich’. This was the case 15 years ago when I first had a non-fiction

May 19, 2017June 27, 2017
by Emma Murray

Six months ago, a group of 13 professional ghostwriters got together to exchange ideas about how we could improve the services we offer. The number one cause of frustration for our clients? We were difficult to find. Our clients would spend many hours online searching for the right ghost to match their writing needs, before finally finding one of us. Apparently, we were as elusive as our profession suggests. We needed to make ourselves more visible and more accessible to the people who needed our help writing their books. That’s why we created United Ghostwriters – a marketplace that showcases

March 5, 2017June 27, 2017
by Ginny Carter

Numbers. Sales. Rankings. That’s all anyone seems to care about when it comes to books. Is your book a bestseller? No? Then you might as well forget it and go home. If you’re like many business authors you’re probably assuming your book needs to get that elusive ‘bestseller’ status to be a success. And that can feel pretty daunting. Far easier not to start in case you don’t sell thousands of copies when it’s finally done. It’s enough to make even the boldest entrepreneur feel worried and inadequate. But what if I was to tell you that writing a bestselling

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