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How did you land your first book ghostwriting project?How did you land your first book ghostwriting project? I was a copywriter when I fell into ghostwriting accidentally way back in 1999. One of my long-term copywriting clients asked me to write a book for him about his branding business. I had never written a book before, but I said yes, hung up the phone, had a small panic attack, and then figured it out. In retrospect, the book wasn’t very good, but it was a starting point. I wrote two more books for that same client, and the…
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