Plenty of people can write a competent chapter. The job is writing one your readers believe you wrote. That comes from recorded conversations, because how you explain your work out loud is nearly always closer to your real voice than how you type it. We build the voice first and show it to you before anyone drafts a full book.
The word covers everything from light structural help to a book written from nothing. Worth knowing the difference before you commission anything.
You bring the material. The expertise, the story, the notes. A writer turns it into the manuscript. It runs off recorded conversations, because how you explain something out loud is usually closer to your real voice than how you write it down. Standard terms: the authorship and the copyright are yours, and the writer isn't credited unless you want them to be.
You write, a professional shapes and fills the gaps. Common for memoir and business books where you've got the material and not the structural training. Usually credited as 'with', which readers read as honest rather than hidden.
Nonfiction sells on a proposal, not a finished book. Overview, your platform, comparable titles, chapter outline, a sample chapter or two. Different document, different rules, and it's the thing an agent actually reads.
Everything rests on this one. It comes from recorded interviews, anything you've already written, and a short sample chapter you approve before full drafting starts. If the sample doesn't sound like you, that's cheap to fix. If the finished manuscript doesn't, it isn't.
Ghostwriting arguments are nearly always about things nobody wrote down at the start.
Every month it sits in the drawer is a month nobody reads it. Tell us where the book is at and we'll give you a straight answer on what it needs.
Work for hire terms in writing before the first word. Authorship and copyright are yours, the NDA runs both ways, and every interview recording and transcript is handed to you at the end. You're never stuck needing us to write the next one.
You've probably heard that publishing services take your money, take your rights and go quiet. The industry earned that reputation. So here's how we work instead.
Your rights, your royalties, your files. Nothing we make gets licensed back to us.
Scope in writing first. No work starts on a handshake and a number that moves later.
Source files, print ready files, accounts and logins. All handed over, all in your name.
If your book doesn't need a service, we'll say so. That's cheaper for you and better for us.
Real books we've worked on. Covers, interiors and distribution, all of them out in the world.
Every month it sits in the drawer is a month nobody reads it. Tell us where the book is at and we'll give you a straight answer on what it needs.
Five stages, and you sign off at every one. Nothing moves to the next stage until you've said yes to the last.
Tell us where the book is and what you want it to do. We'll tell you what it actually needs.
Scope and price agreed in writing before anyone starts. You know the number up front.
Editing, layout, cover, whatever the scope says. You approve each stage as it lands.
Final proof on the typeset pages, plus a physical proof copy before anything gets printed at volume.
Retailer setup, metadata, categories and keywords. Then the files and logins come to you.
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