How  to Hire a Ghost Writer -

Everything You Need to Know

Hiring a ghostwriter can be a great way for authors to get their book completed. There are a variety of reasons that you might want to consider hiring a ghostwriter to help you accomplish your goals. 

Too Busy. Some people are just too busy doing one thing or another, to write their own book. Most likely if you’re considering hiring a ghostwriter, you have a firm understanding of the awesome benefits of writing a book and want to capitalize on your expertise, expand your business, and add a new stream of income.

If you are in the information business, meaning you earn a living by speaking, educating, coaching, and/or communicating with people, you’ve got to have a book. A ghostwriter can help you accomplish your goal. 

Can’t Write. Some people just don’t write well. Especially if you’re writing a fiction book and you have a great concept but can’t write fiction, you will greatly benefit from a ghostwriter. Fiction book authors find the greatest use out of a ghostwriter because the entire book is hinged on the talent of story telling. For many people, all the learning that must be done to become a good fiction writer is just too deep. Better to just hire someone to bring the vision alive.  

Don’t Have the Discipline. Some people don’t have the discipline that it takes to be a writer. To me writing comes very easy, but there are plenty things that I hire out that I don’t like to do- like cut the grass. Yikes! So if you happen to not have the discipline to write but understand its importance to your career, by all means hire a ghostwriter. 

Here’s What You can Expect:

It’s going to cost a lot. The problem that most authors will immediately have is that you’re going to pay anywhere between $15,000-$30,000 for ghostwriter to write your book depending on a couple of things.

The amount of credit that give the ghostwriter will dictate price. If you give them more credit, like saying that you wrote your book with them on your cover could lower your price. If you just acknowledge them in your book but don’t list them as a co-author, your price will be more. If you don’t acknowledge the ghostwriter at all, your price will most likely be even higher.  

That means you need to really try to get creative and come up with a win-win deal that benefits both yourself and the ghostwriter. The best way to get out of paying huge upfront cost to a ghostwriter is to make an offer they can’t refuse.

You’ve got to put your business cap on and really assess the value your information has and your ability to sell books, because if you’ve got a book that will practically be able to sell a lot, then you can negotiate a partnership opportunity with a ghostwriter and pay little money upfront.  

Otherwise, you might as well forget about hiring a ghostwriter and shut your business down for a month to write that book because paying up to $30,000 will put you under. Stats show that most books don’t sell over 200 copies so they don’t make anywhere near $30,000 in revenue.

But even if you do sell thousands of books, which you will if you’re enlightened, have common sense, and basic business sense, hiring a ghostwriter is a huge profit drainer. 

I said at the beginning of this page that hiring a ghostwriter can be a great option for the right author. The right author is the one who’s selling hundreds of thousands of books and thus can easily absorb hiring a ghostwriter for one of their books. I would definitely not recommend this for a beginning author. 

Helpful info and resources

Find the right writer. You need to search for the right ghostwriter- one who writes in your genre and that you can connect with on a personal level. This is your heart and soul you are sharing in your book, so you want someone who can “feel” you on that level.  

Contacts of ghostwriter companies

·         The Penn Group  

Pegr.com 

·         Ghostwriter Central 

Ghostwords.com 

·         Owen Platt (author & ghostwriter. Inexpensive) 

Ghostwriter.org 

·         Rent a Ghostwriter 

Rentaghostwriter.com 

·         Hire a Ghostwriter 

Seo-writer.com 

This list should get you started.

If you think this information was helpful and you’re really serious about writing the best book you possibly can, get the best book publishing deal you can and selling thousands and thousands of copies of your book then you need to [CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE]