Our commitment to you is not only in a polished and engaging final manuscript, but in a genuinely enjoyable relationship. Simply put, you’ll like writing your book with us.
Our Typical Memoir Clients Include:
- CEOs and Businesspeople
- Consultants and Politicians
- Families
- Individuals and Creatives
- Your Loved Ones
We have helped develop memoirs about:
- Childhood and formative years
- Traveling
- Education and career
- Traumatic events
- Medical diagnoses and treatment
- Addiction recovery
- Historical and war experiences
- Relationships
- Spiritual experiences
- Personal transformation
What You Can Expect
Our process starts by getting to know you through a series of interviews. We learn why the project is important to you. We take all your ambitions and concerns onboard, and we communicate openly with you every step of the way, from our first meeting to the day we hand over the finished manuscript.
Here is our promise to you:
- We will take the time to get to know you. Before we write a word, we visit you in your home (or office or other space you choose) and spend two to three days interviewing you and your family. We learn more about your story and discuss your style preferences, timelines, additional interviewees, and publishing options.
- We will listen to you. Your writing team wants to hear what you have to say. We come to every interview ready to listen, and we take detailed notes and make recordings to make sure that we don’t miss a word.
- We won’t disappear. Ghostwriting shouldn’t imply you’re working with a ghost! Ghostwriting is a collaborative, back-and-forth effort. We communicate with you regularly, and you’ll always know the status of your book.
- If you don’t like something, we’ll change it. It is your book, and we want you to be 100% happy with it. We love getting feedback from you on everything we write. You tell us what’s working and what you’d like to change, and we’ll revise based on your comments.
Our Approach
Writing a memoir is a complex and time-consuming process that requires close collaboration between you (the author) and your ghostwriting team.
- We help facilitate your process of organizing and documenting your thoughts then develop a rough outline of the work.
- We help you pick an appropriate theme. For example, if your memoir is about how you turned a failing business into a success, you might choose a theme like “From Red to Black in Six Months.”
- We help you map out the specific time frames your memoir will cover then research the period to include as much cultural and other contextual information as you desire.
- Where your story is set may be a critical focus. In that case, we will include as much information as possible about the location where events took place. We always encourage clients to drive through old neighborhoods or to look at old photos that may jog their memories.
- We do research to find old newspaper articles, clippings, files, photos, and other assets and materials relating to your story.
- We interview other people who affected your life or have a part to play in your story. For example, when we wrote a medical memoir about grappling with a rare genetic disease, we talked first to family members, fellow patients, and medical experts.
References Available
Sure, we think our writing team is pretty great – but we’re just a bit biased. If you’d like to learn more about what it’s like to work with us, from our real ghostwriting customers, we can provide references upon request.
Our Process
FAQs
You do. It’s your book, and you retain 100% of the rights to it.
You do. In addition to retaining 100% of the rights to your book, you can claim sole authorship. Some of our clients choose to credit us as editors or co-writers. Although it’s nice to get a shout-out now and then, the majority of our clients don’t disclose the fact that they used a ghostwriter — and that’s fine with us.
Of course. Your ghostwriter is simply helping you say what you want to say in a clear, engaging way. The ideas are 100% yours — a ghostwriter just helps you get your ideas onto paper.
We take your privacy seriously. Most of our ghostwriting contracts include a non-disclosure agreement (NDA).
Our ghostwriters are professional, full-time writers and editors, and to keep them on our team, we have to pay them for their time. Our business model simply isn’t set up to take projects on spec.
Yes. Our diverse writing and editing team includes experienced writers with backgrounds in science and technology, oil & gas, journalism, education, and software engineering. They’re smart, naturally curious, and genuinely interested in learning more about your area of expertise. And because ghostwriting is a collaborative effort, you’ll have the opportunity to review and fact-check every page we write.
We can publish your book through KDP, an Amazon subsidiary. If you are interested in other publishing options, we can recommend and provide introductions to several traditional and self-publishing companies.
Technology makes it easy for us to work with anyone, anywhere. Plus, we love to fly and will travel to you, if you prefer. After the initial kickoff meeting, most of our ghostwriting clients communicate with us via email, phone, or Skype. We’ve worked with hundreds of happy clients from all over the globe — from Singapore to San Jose to Scottsdale.
Ghostwriting is a back-and-forth process, and we seek specific, constructive feedback from you every step of the way. Once we get a feel for your style preferences, we write a few pages and send them to you for review. You tell us what’s working — and what’s not working — and we send you a revised copy. You see every chapter as we go, which means there won’t be any surprises at the end.
We don’t create illustrations and infographics in-house, but we can provide introductions and recommendations for design work, and we can project manage the design portion of your book.
A lot of people get nervous about the idea of talking to writers; that’s why all of our family and personal writing projects begin with a face-to-face meeting. A book — especially a biography or family history book — is a big project that requires a lot of collaboration. It’s important that we take the time to get to know you, and it’s also important that you like us and feel comfortable talking to us. (So far, we’ve got a great track record. By the end of most book projects, most of our clients feel like we’re members of their extended family.)
If you are referring to self-publishing, which is now almost 20% of the current market, then yes. If you are referring to traditional publishing, no one can guarantee publication. We can, however, provide you with introductions to a few local/niche publishers, we can help guide you through the self-publishing process, and we can pitch your book to traditional publishers.
A full-length book typically takes between six and 12 months. However, a compressed schedule can almost always be accommodated. Just tell us what your deadline is. Chances are, we can make it.
