United Ghostwriters
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Professional ghostwriting for people with something to say
United Ghostwriters
4d ago
Having recently completed and sent off a long and fairly complex writing project, I was delighted when my client got in touch a few days later, once he’d been able to look over everything, to tell me he was very pleased with the end result. In fact, in giving my work this thumbs-up, he paid
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United Ghostwriters
1M ago
Pity my poor wife, trying to have a quiet night in with her husband, watching a bit of TV together in peace and quiet – and he’s all but screaming at the screen, “JUST WRITE THE THING!” Specifically, we were watching Frasier; even more specifically, the episode ‘Author, Author’ in which Dr Frasier Crane and
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United Ghostwriters
2M ago
I’m in the process of signing up a new client. It’s an exciting moment. I am about to get to know a complete stranger really quite intimately. And the complete stranger is also entering a new world, one in which they will be asked a lot of very personal questions as we explore the story
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United Ghostwriters
2M ago
As any ghostwriter will tell you, one of the key topics we’re asked about when we first talk to clients is confidentiality. That’s understandable. For various reasons, which I’ll explore in a moment, some people feel there’s a stigma around working with a ghostwriter and would prefer to keep their involvement a secret. Hence the
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United Ghostwriters
3M ago
January is supposed to be all about giving things up, taking things up and becoming better versions of ourselves. But it’s cold and dark and to be honest most of us just want to curl up in front of the fire with a hot chocolate and a good film and save the salads and jogging
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United Ghostwriters
4M ago
Sue Limb’s first novel, Up the Garden Path, had just one big – and rather unfair – advantage when it hit the bookshops in 1984. It sported a front cover blurb provided by her Cambridge University friend, Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. And it was, quite simply, the most compelling
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United Ghostwriters
5M ago
Rejection – it’s not something anyone finds fun. And in the world of book publishing, there’s a lot of rejection to be had. Writers’ submissions are turned down by agents; agents’ submissions are turned down by publishers; books which do make it out into the market may get a frosty reception from reviewers and readers
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United Ghostwriters
6M ago
Everyone has their ‘thing’. It’s that frustration when you know how something should be done, but you see people doing it wrong. Why don’t they get it? What’s stopping them from understanding where they’re going off track? When I worked in marketing many years ago, my bugbear used to be seeing businesses advertising the things
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United Ghostwriters
8M ago
I could have titled this blog “A Case Study in Hubris by a Hack Writer”, but I will stick to my convictions even though it means taking on a literary great. Here goes. I recently inherited a full set of the Lord Peter Wimsey novels by Dorothy L. Sayers, and I’ve enjoyed working my way
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United Ghostwriters
9M ago
A week ago I got an email telling me a friend’s first novel had been longlisted for the Booker Prize. The Booker is the pre-eminent prize for literary fiction written in English, and winning it is generally reckoned to be career changing. Just getting as far as the long list is pretty major, especially if,
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