What To Expect From Ghostwriters For Hire

Ghostwriters for hire are professionals who write books on behalf of third parties. Here’s everything you need to know about these professionals.

What Do Ghostwriters Do?

The ghostwriters for hire deal with the drafting of manuscripts on behalf of another person who cannot compose it. Although a ghostwriter is mainly linked to the publishing world, his possible tasks include drafting novels, manuscripts, articles, speeches and public interventions.

Writing for other people means the ghostwriter gives up all rights to the work and, consequently, to the name on the cover. Those who rely on ghostwriters for hire are usually actors, singers, celebrities and personalities who want to tell their stories and choose to do so through the pen of a ghostwriter. However, addressing ghostwriters is not typical only of famous people. To produce a large number of books effectively, many writers need writers to help them and to write parts of the book (sometimes the entire manuscript) to meet the needs of the market and publishing houses.

The manuscripts produced by ghostwriters for hire can be biographies, scientific articles, and public speeches but also parts of film scripts, musical compositions, cookbooks and actual novels. However, we must not think that ghostwriters are mediocre writers who have failed to become famous with their names.

How Much Do Ghostwriters For Hire Earn?

Like most players in the publishing world, a ghostwriter’s salary varies. The first fundamental element is the writer’s experience: more experienced ghostwriters have a higher profit margin than beginners. The second factor is the type of contract. Whether or not you work for a publishing house: freelance authors have a profit margin linked exclusively to the salary of the single project. In contrast, those who rely on a publisher will see their pay fluctuate according to work.

How Do You Become A Ghostwriter?

Being a ghostwriter means being able to adapt one’s style and writing to those of the client, whether he is a writer or a famous person. The ghostwriter’s style must align with that of whoever signs the text: the biography of a renowned footballer will have different characteristics than that of a politician or an actor.

However, more is needed to adapt one’s writing style to the clients. It is also necessary to compose pleasant and flowing texts, especially if we are talking about biographies which generally must involve the reader in the events of the character’s life.

How Do The Ghostwriters For Hire Service Work?     

At WriterCosmos, our ghostwriters for hire not only write your book, but we help you put it on sale. During the process, we advise you on the preparations you should make before releasing your book for sale.

Step 1: Initial conversation to find out the details of your book.

We will talk about the theme, who it is for, what length you have in mind, what chapters you have in mind, and what genre we will write. In addition, a survey will be to find out your writing style so that we can ensure that the final manuscript is left with your stamp.

In this step, we define the tentative index if you have ideas. Otherwise, we will build one with the information you provide, and you will approve it.

Step 2: Sign the contract to start

Here we establish the terms of service, the delivery period, the confidentiality clause, and the copyright assignment on our part, among other details.

Step 3: First interview

Begin with the book’s structure while preparing the final index and conversation about the first chapter. This is an important point because, in this chapter, we will define how to address the reader, the parts that you will highlight in the text, the length of the paragraphs, the language and many more elements that, with this first chapter, you will review our work. We will arrive together at the style of writing you like the most, with which you most identify, and this will allow us to advance more quickly in the following chapters.

The interviews can be replaced if you have a post on social networks that we can rewrite, videos on YouTube or any other platform that we can transcribe podcasts or previous writings that serve as inputs for the construction of the book. In these cases, we use all the material you share to write the book of your dreams.

Step 4: Following interviews of the rest of the chapters, with the same methodology.

Once the first chapter is approved, we continue with the same methodology, do an interview, and then write the next chapter. In this way, we write all the sections until the finished book.

Step 5: Book with proofreading included

The book’s writing includes a style correction completed by a professional ghostwriter for hire and an adaptation of the format according to the guidelines established by Amazon (this is optional).

Step 6: Design the cover, back cover and spine

Along with ghostwriters for hire, we have a professional team in book cover design. We give you the design; if you want, you can build it with high quality with our team or take the design.

Step 7: ISBN and copyright

We provide free advice on obtaining the copyright registration and the ISBN; If you prefer, we do it for you.

Step 8: Publication on Amazon

We provide you with a free guide on uploading your book to Amazon and selling it on that portal. Our ghostwriters for hire can also do it for you.

Step 9: Promotion of the book

We guide you in creating your sales website and a strategy to sell your book through social networks.

Frequently-Asked Questions

How long do ghostwriters for hire take to write the chapters? After the interview, our ghostwriters for hire take between 4 and 7 days to prepare the section we are talking about. We will deliver the document to you. Then you review it, give us feedback, and we correct it until you fully approve it.

1.      How long are the interviews?

The interviews last approximately one hour and are done once a week, generally.

2.      Do you only work one chapter by chapter?

It all depends on your time and the period in which you want the book ready. We have full-time ghostwriters for hire who are dedicated to the craft of writing. Once we start the project with you, we will help you as long as needed.

3.      How do you build the index?

We review the initial conversation and get a tentative index with a preliminary description of what each chapter will include; sometimes, clients bring the proposed rate.

4.      Is the book delivered in draft or a final version?

At the end of the book’s writing and when you approve it, we make a style correction that will free it from all kinds of spelling, grammatical and style errors. This proofreading is done by a professional in our style proofreading team; this service is included and has no additional cost. In addition, we deliver the book in the format requested by Amazon for the publication of texts on its platform.

5.      I want to write my book. Where to start?

Don’t worry. Writing block is entirely normal, as is not having as many writing skills as a professional writer. Not everyone should know everything. You focus on telling us what you want to write and that one of our ghostwriters for hire will do it for you!

​6.      I worry about not looking like the author of my book.

We make every sentence in the book sound like you said it. Our commitment is to preserve your style in the writing of the manuscript.