How the Ghostwriting Process Works From Start to Finish

The Process Anchor

The Process

Collaborating With

A Ghostwriter

The word ghostwriter has always seemed a little mysterious to many people, me included. When I first heard it and learned a little about ghosts, I thought it was all very magical—and it is. However, like any other business, it has a rhyme and reason and a logical flow to how it works.

Like anything worth doing, writing your memoirs or business book starts with simply taking a first step, but in what direction? When you do things on your own, the process is quite different. When you work with a ghostwriter there are factors that are out of your immediate control; you have to trust a very important job with someone else. You are essentially collaborating with a guide and you want to insure that guide has shepherded many people down the same path you are about to embark upon. Trust is essential and experience is vital but in this case, it is also important that you like your guide. That first step begins with that all important first conversation between the two of us.

In that first phone conversation, I will answer any and all questions you have. You will find out how “sellable” your story might be. You’ll find out what it will cost, how long it will take, exactly how each step proceeds, what interviewing is all about, what style I feel your story deserves and a host of other important elements that form this unique collaboration between two creative and determined people.

If you like what you’ve heard, I will travel anywhere in the U.S. and Canada to meet you. You pay the air fare and hotel for a two-day stay and I give you two days of my life and my undivided attention. I’ve been to nearly every major city in this country and several in Canada.

When we have spent a day or two together and you feel all your questions have been answered, I return home and leave you alone to your thoughts. If you decide you want to proceed, you simply call me to discuss our next steps, to sign my agreement and to begin the fantastic journey of writing your story.

Of course, the interviews I will need to do, how the work is provided to you and how frequently, what the style will be, what control you have all along the way and a myriad of other elements of the process will be discussed when we meet as well.

When you feel like your initial questions have been answered, I will leave you alone to your thoughts. If you decide you want to proceed…and then continue with existing in that para to “journey of writing your story.”