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You may be the best at what you do in your professional life, but when it comes to your book, if you don’t have the time – or the writing skills – to turn your book into reality, then you are faced with a choice:
First, you can do nothing, and your book can sit in a file on your hard drive, or in a drawer somewhere, until you have the time to finish it.
Or, another option is to try to cut corners by hiring an amateur, or one of those sprung-up-overnight, dime-a-dozen, ghostwriting companies where chances are, English is not the writer’s mother-tongue and their “experience” and credentials are less than stellar.
Or, you can hire a professional writer, who will sit down and commit to getting your book written and polished and finished… Giving it the care and importance it deserves.
So, if you’re ready to find a ghostwriter to help you take your ideas, your thoughts and all the background material you’ve amassed and get it down into a well-written, marketable manuscript – you might be wondering why you should choose me, rather than someone else.
Before I get into that, I’d like to share something else with you – from my own experience. When you start interviewing ghostwriters, it’s very important you choose a writer you feel very comfortable with, and trust. Here’s why:
The relationship between an author and a ghostwriter, by necessity, becomes a very close, intimate one. Even if your book is a non-fiction type, written about a specific topic in your expertise, your ghostwriter has to be able to capture your “voice” and write the book from “inside your head”. She has to take your words, your thoughts and your intentions for the book, and make sure that what is written comes out not only the way you envisioned it, but in such a way to make it marketable to publisher and public alike. (Because what’s the point of writing a book that is rejected by the publisher, and never read by your intended market?) Many of my physician clients have equated hiring the right ghostwriter as being almost on the same level as choosing the right heart specialist or surgeon for a member of their family…
Which means you need a talented, experienced writer, not someone who may have taken some writing classes, or has practiced rewriting some articles written by real writers. You want a specialist, someone you can trust to give you an objective voice, who can help you to step back from the emotion and the fantasy of what it means to write a book, so the story itself becomes the most important thing.
Also, here’s something else equally important: You have the right to expect the ghostwriter you choose to be completely honest with you – about the potential of your book to achieve your goals for having it written in the first place. (And by the way, I don’t charge you for this consultation – nor for my initial recommendations about publishing, marketing and saleability.) Another thing you should know – I won’t just “drop you” as soon as your book is written. You’re not just a “contract” to me. You can get in touch with me any time if you’ve got questions about the publishing process, or marketing your book, or really, just about anything. And I’ll do my best to help.
So now you understand why it’s so important you choose your ghostwriter very carefully.
And here’s one more thing I want to mention before we get down to the “why me” part…
If you want to be seen as a true expert – and not just be one – being a published author is one of the best and fastest ways of getting there. But to make that happen, you need a writer who can write with crystal clarity and communicate your thoughts, feelings and message to the reader in the best possible way.
So – here’s why the majority of my clients come to me:
- They don’t have the TIME to sit down at their computer and actually write an entire book from start to finish.
- They don’t fee like they have the ABILITY to write a book in an engaging format that takes their idea and turns it into a marketable manuscript.
- They don’t have the KNOW-HOW to put their manuscript in the right format, to give it a better chance it will be noticed by a publisher or their audience.
You know, I think it takes a great deal of personal insight, courage and honesty for someone to know themselves well enough to know where their strengths lie – and where they don’t. Which is why I admire and respect each one of the people who have been my clients. Also because on top of their perception, they choose to do what they have to do, so they can accomplish their goals anyway. (This is something all my clients have in common – they’re doers – not dreamers.)
Dreamers are people who talk about the book they are going to write – but that’s all they do. In my experience, dreamers never have the courage to take the next step to actually make sure their book gets written. And so it never gets done.
If you’ve never worked with a professional ghostwriter before, click this link to find out more about how to interview a ghostwriter.
