Thousands of people use ghostwriters, including well-known celebrities, speakers, corporate leaders, government officials, and others. They don’t have time to do their own writing. They commonly provide the ghostwriter with some ideas about what to say, and the ghostwriter puts those ideas together into an organized piece of writing. The author or speaker gets to approve whatever is written, and then the writing is presented as his or her own.
HOW TO FIND AND WORK WITH A GOOD GHOSTWRITER discusses the steps involved in finding and collaborating with a good ghostwriter on blogs, articles, books, scripts, and other materials. It features these topics:
– Why work with a ghostwriter
– How do you find a ghostwriter?
– Working out any agreements and contracts
– What to prepare for your book, script or blog
– Creating an outline for your book or script
– Working together on your project
– What to do when things don’t work out
– Other ways a ghostwriter can help you
– An appendix with sample contracts, NDAs, synopses and proposals
Daftar Isi
INTRODUCTION.. 9
The Truth About Modern Ghostwriting. 9
Different Approaches for Different Types of Writers. 9
Saving Time. 11
The Cost of Ghostwriting. 11
Organizing and Managing Your Project 13
The Quality of Work You Can Expect 14
The Many Ways that Ghostwriters Can Help. 15
Why Don’t Ghostwriters Write Their Own Books?. 17
Choosing a Ghostwriter 18
PART I: WHY AND HOW TO FIND A GHOSTWRITER.. 21
CHAPTER 1: WHY WORK WITH A GHOSTWRITER.. 23
To Credit or Not to Credit?. 23
Getting It Written. 24
What Ghostwriters Can Write for You. 24
Why Write a Book, Blog, Article, or Other Materials?. 24
Why Hire a Ghostwriter 25
CHAPTER 2: HOW DO YOU FIND A GHOSTWRITER.. 27
Finding a Ghostwriter 28
Using the Writers’ Profiles to Find a Writer 29
Posting Your Announcement for a Writer 31
Deciding on What Contact Information to Use. 33
Getting Information to Review from the Ghostwriter 34
Reviewing the Writer’s Letter, Bio, Publications and Samples. 36
Creating Your Short List 39
Communicating With and Interview the Writers. 40
Selecting the Right Writer or Writers for You. 43
Communicating with the Ghostwriters You Don’t Hire. 44
PART II: WHAT YOU NEED FOR YOUR BOOK, SCRIPT, OR BLOG 59
CHAPTER 4: DETERMINING WHAT YOU NEED.. 61
Having an Initial Discussion to Determine What You Need. 61
What You Need for Different Types of Projects. 61
Blogs. 62
Synopsis. 63
Book Proposal 65
PART III: HOW TO WORK SUCCESSFULLY WITH A GHOSTWRITER 81
CHAPTER 5: GETTING STARTED.. 83
And more…
Tentang Penulis
Gini Graham Scott has published over 50 books with mainstream publishers, focusing on social trends, work and business relationships, and personal and professional development. Some of these books include Scammed (Allworth Press, 2016), Lies and Liars: How and Why Sociopaths Lie and How to Detect and Deal with Them (Skyhorse Publishing 2016), The New Middle Ages (Nortia Press 2014), and The Very Next New Thing (ABC-Clio 2010). Other recent books are Turn Your Dreams into Reality (Llewellyn 2015), What Kind of Dog Are You? (Touch Point Press 2016), When the Rich Kill (Black Rose Writing) and The Anger Book (Changemakers Publishing 2016).A number of her recent books started out as ghostwriting projects which became co-writes, including American Justice with Paul Brakke (Touch Point Press 2016), Credit Card Fraud with Jen Grondahl Lee (Rowman & Littlefield 2016), At Death’s Door with Sebastian Sepulveda (Rowman & Littlefield 2017), and Growing Up in Nazi Germany with Wolf Dettbarn and Penny Dettbarn (Truman University Press 2017).
Scott has gained extensive media interest for previous books, including appearances on Good Morning America, Oprah , CNN, and hundreds of radio interviews. She has frequently been quoted by the media and has set up websites to promote her most recent books, featured at www.ginigrahamscott.com and www.changemakerspublishing.com.
She has a regular Huffington Post column, www.huffingtonpost.com/gini-graham-scott, since December 2012, and most recently she has written about a number of social trends. She has a Facebook page featuring her books and films at www.facebook.com/changemakerspublishing.
She has written, produced, and sometimes directed over 60 short videos, which are featured on her Changemakers Productions website at www.changemakersproductions.com and on You Tube at www.youtube.com/changemakersprod. Two of her feature films, which are in release or have distribution arrangements, deal with social issues and crime. One is The Suicide Party #Save Dave, about a once middle class businessman who is about to lose it all and decides with friends to crowdfund a suicide party to raise money to get back on his feet. The other is Driver about a Uber-like driver who becomes a serial killer. Her next feature film, which goes into preproduction in the fall 2016 is Brain Swap, about an older wealthy businessman who is losing everything and decides to transfer his brain into the body of a younger man who has just died. But after a mix-up at the hospital, his brain is transferred into the body of a wanted criminal, leading to all kinds of complications.
Scott has a Ph D in sociology from U.C. Berkeley and MAs in Anthropology, Pop Culture and Lifestyles, and Mass Communications and Organizational/Consumer/Audience Behavior from Cal State, East Bay. She is working towards an additional M.A. in Communication to be completed in 2017. She is also a member of numerous business groups, including the Lafayette and Danville Chambers of Commerce.
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