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Member Spotlight: Jonathan Gifford
How did you land your first book ghostwriting project?How did you land your first book ghostwriting project? In a way, I got lucky. In another way, I helped make my own luck. My last employment was as a publisher at BBC Magazines. My relatively niche-interest titles got relocated from London to Bristol, in the UK’s southwest, to cut down on overheads, and I had enough years of service (and was old enough – just turned 50) to turn redundancy into early retirement. I got a modest pension that paid some of the bills and gave me some options…
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Guest Post: Navigating the Financial Ups and Downs of the Ghostwriting Industry: 10 Suggestions and Safeguards
By Alice Sullivan I’ve been in the book publishing industry since 2001, primarily as a ghostwriter. While I’ve experienced a few bumps in the road throughout my career when it comes to managing project loads, the rare unhappy client, and the stress of rate negotiation, I’ve never had financial whiplash so bad as over the…
Does Cold Calling Work for Ghostwriting?
Contacting people who don’t know you to ask if they might be interested in your ghostwriting services is not a new marketing tactic, and it is still used today because it works. More than 100 years ago, Alfred Fuller, who later founded the Fuller Brush Company in 1906, began selling household cleaning brushes door-to-door. He…
Guest Post: Tips For Getting Started As a Ghostwriter
By Wintress Odom Although the practice of ghostwriting reaches back to antiquity when scribes toiled over papyrus scrolls, the ghostwriting industry is growing today more than ever—for a variety of reasons. The rise in SEO, eBooks, self-publishing, and social media means that more and more people are looking to communicate their ideas, even when they…