You don’t have to have fame or fortune to have an idea for a novel. You do need to know what to do next, and that is where most ideas sputter and die. GHOSTWRITING NOVELS is for any authors thinking of hiring help to get their idea down on paper, and for any writers who suddenly find ghostwriting opportunities opening up for them.
Authors will learn how novels are put together, and what they can or should expect of their writer. Writers will learn how to adjust their tried and tested skills to writing from inside the head of another person. From both points of view, this book goes through all the steps needed to ghostwrite a novel:
Above all, this book shows how ghostwriter and ghostwritten can work together in a rewarding partnership to turn that initial idea into the dreamed-of reality – a novel.
Table des matières
Foreword, by Ralph Turner
Introduction
1. What Exactly Is A Ghostwriter?
2. How Fiction Works
3. What Goes Into Publishing A Novel?
4. Should I Hire A Ghostwriter?
5. Finding And Hiring That Ghost
6. Someone Wants To Hire Me!
7. What Makes A Good Ghostwriter?
8. Red Flags
9. The Money
10. The Legal Side
11. Conclusion
Appendix 1: What Do I Do With My Manuscript?
Appendix 2: A Sample Contract
Appendix 3: Scams, And How To Avoid Them
Appendix 4: The Obligatory Origin Story
A propos de l’auteur
Ben Jeapes has been a full-time ghostwriter since 2015 and was already writing for publication long before that, while holding down day jobs in publishing (social sciences, I.T., medicine, science fiction) and technical communications. As Sebastian Rook he wrote THE VAMPIRE PLAGUES for Working Partners (Scholastic 2004), and as a ghostwriter he has written over fifty books, mostly but not all novels. He has had five novels and eighteen short stories professionally published under his own name, together with three novels self-published, all in the genre of science fiction, fantasy and adventure. As well as this, his children’s biography ADA LOVELACE (David Fickling Books 2019) was chosen by the National Science Teaching Association as one of the Best STEM Books of 2021. Ben knows he was writing stories at least as early as age 7 because he remembers doing so getting in the way of lessons. This set the pattern for writing interrupting his education all the way through Sherborne School and the University of Warwick, but somehow he still emerged with a degree in Philosophy & Politics. He now lives near Oxford, which suits him perfectly as a place where anyone with publishing and writing skills is unlikely to starve.
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