Want to understand the whole picture first? Read how our publishing process works and the honest numbers on what publishing a book costs. Writing your life story? That path usually runs through memoir publishing.
You have the book — you just don't have the time, or the patience for a blank page. Our ghostwriting services turn recorded phone conversations into finished chapters in your voice: an NDA is standard, your name goes on the cover, and 100% of rights and royalties stay yours, in the contract, not just on this page.
No mystery. Here's the working rhythm we've used on ghostwritten books since 2017.
Your ghostwriter interviews you by phone — recorded, so nothing gets lost. Notes, voice memos, old drafts, even letters all feed in. Most books take 6–10 conversations. You never write a word unless you want to.
Weeks 1–3 · Just talkingBefore any chapter is written, you get a full outline: what goes in, what stays out, and the order it unfolds. Change anything. Writing starts only after you've approved the map.
Week 4 · You approve the planChapters arrive two or three at a time for review — not one finished manuscript dropped in your lap at the end. Mark up anything. "I'd never say it that way" is exactly the feedback that sharpens the voice.
Months 2–3 · Your notes, every batchThe writer studies how you actually talk — your phrases, your humor, your rhythm — from the recordings. The finished book should sound like you on your best day, not like a stranger's essay about you.
Final pass · You sign offThe question people are too polite to ask on the phone: "If someone else writes it, is it really mine?" Yes — legally, financially, and on the cover. Here's exactly what that means in your contract.
Your name is the byline. The ghostwriter claims no credit anywhere — not the cover, not the copyright page, not a portfolio — unless you choose to thank them in the acknowledgments. Some do. Most don't.
You own 100% of the rights and 100% of the royalties. The finished manuscript is your property, in writing. Sell it, adapt it, translate it, leave it to your kids. We keep nothing.
An NDA is standard, not an upsell. Every ghostwriting project includes a signed confidentiality agreement before you share a single story. What you tell your writer stays between you, whether the book ever publishes or not.
Wondering if it's somehow cheating? It isn't, and it isn't new — a large share of the memoirs and business books on any bestseller shelf were written this way. The stories and opinions are the book, and those are yours. We just do the typing, at a professional level.
Honest answer: people with a real book and a real obstacle. Three patterns cover almost everyone.
Doctors, pastors, business owners — people whose expertise fills a book but whose calendar can't fund a year of writing evenings. Ten hours of interviews replaces those evenings.
You can hold a dinner table spellbound, but the page freezes you. Common — talking and writing are different skills. A ghostwriter captures the dinner-table version, which was always the better one anyway.
A life story in letters, recordings, and a draft that stalled at chapter four. Your writer interviews you, fills the gaps, and finishes it. Most of these become books through our memoir publishing service.
“I talked, she wrote, and somehow it still sounds like me — my daughter read the first chapter and said she could hear my voice. Forty years of stories I never could get on paper myself.”
Ghostwriting starts at $1,600. Anyone quoting one flat price for every book sight-unseen is guessing — so here's what honestly moves the number, and you'll have yours in writing after one free call.
The biggest factor. A 25,000-word legacy memoir and an 80,000-word business book are different projects, priced by scope agreed up front — never by surprise.
A half-finished draft or hours of recordings lowers the cost — the writer is completing, not starting cold. Starting from interviews alone sits at the higher end.
A book needing fact-checking, dates verified, or interviews with family members takes more writer-hours than one told entirely from memory.
Ghostwriting pairs with any of our publishing packages, from $699 — same team, one handoff. Or take your finished manuscript anywhere. It's yours.
Your exact quote comes in writing after a free consultation — a real person answers (229) 518-4453, 1pm–11pm ET, 7 days. Payment by card or bank through a secure invoice; a 50% deposit start is available. Writing runs 2–3 months depending on length; add about 60 days if we publish it too.
Want to understand the whole picture first? Read how our publishing process works and the honest numbers on what publishing a book costs. Writing your life story? That path usually runs through memoir publishing.
Asked and answered daily on our phones, 1pm–11pm ET, 7 days.
With us, from $1,600. The quote depends on length, how much material already exists, and research needed — you get it in writing after a free call, before you commit. A 50% deposit start is available.
Like you. The interviews are recorded, and your writer works from how you actually speak — your phrases, your humor. Chapters come in small batches so you correct the voice early, not after 200 pages.
Yes. A signed NDA comes standard before you share anything, and the ghostwriter claims no public credit for the work. Whether anyone ever knows you used a ghostwriter is entirely your call.
You do — 100% of the rights and 100% of the royalties, in writing. Your name is the byline. The manuscript is your property whether you publish with us, elsewhere, or keep it in a drawer for your family.
Usually 2–3 months, depending on length. If we publish it afterward, add about 60 days for editing, cover, and store setup. We won't promise a calendar date — a rushed book reads rushed.
No. The manuscript is yours to take anywhere. Most authors stay — the same team carries the book straight into a publishing package from $699 — but it's a choice, never a condition.