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It’s your story. How ‘creative’ can your ghostwriter be…

May 2, 2019May 2, 2019
by Teena Lyons

We’ve all done it. There you are, telling your friends one of your favourite anecdotes and somewhere along the way the story changes. We conveniently forget some bits that might make us look a bit foolish, while talking up the parts where we seem more interesting/funny/unusual. And that’s all fine when you are sitting around a table in a social situation, having fun. It makes for a great evening and, after all, everyone instinctively knows that there is often an element of exaggeration in any storytelling. These embellishments are not done in a malicious or deliberately misleading way. But,

April 23, 2019April 23, 2019
by ChrisWest

Getting the right endorsements is an important part of a book’s success. There’s something of a debate about exactly how important: I don’t think a perfect endorsement will rescue a mediocre book, but it can certainly make an already good one a lot more noticeable. The perfect endorsement is from someone greatly respected by the book’s target readership. It is, of course, positive, but more than that, it ‘positions’ the book in the way you want it to. In the real world, however, you probably have to compromise. Suppose you have a mediocre quote from a respected source, versus a

April 18, 2019April 18, 2019
by ShannonKyle

Do you REALLY have a book in you? As a ghostwriter, I get approached at least five times a week by potential clients, whom I’m always happy to hear from, so please do drop me a line! But very few queries turn into actual books, because the reality of writing a completed book is often different from what people imagine. People often say: ‘You should write a book!’ as a response to a set of life experiences. While everyone, whoever they are, definitely has stories to tell, it takes something unique to turn them into an actual book. So when someone

April 8, 2019April 8, 2019
by Emma Murray

Susan Feldstein is one half of literary agency The Feldstein Agency based out of Northern Ireland, which she runs with her husband Paul. In this week’s blog, Susan talks about the rise of the ‘narrative non-fiction’ market and how writers no longer need to have celeb status to get published. Paul, my partner in our boutique literary agency on the north-east coast of Ireland, has worked in publishing on both sides of the Atlantic for more than 40 years, and in that time has had ample opportunity to observe the many quirks of the industry. One of his many observations

April 1, 2019April 1, 2019
by SpencerHonniball

When working with a publisher, what had been considered a pretty much completed manuscript can often be anything but. Instead of the occasional polish here and there, and perhaps slight rearrangement of text, there can be such a long list of demands that for the ghostwriter who wrote it – or author, if not employing the services of a ghost – it can feel like working on an entirely new manuscript. That’s undoubtedly overstating it – much of the originally submitted text will remain in some form, but the requested changes affect the flow and rhythm of language on the

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