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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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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…
What is the Association of Ghostwriters?
At the inaugural Gathering of the Ghosts convention in NYC in early 2024, I was surprised by how few attendees had heard of the Association of Ghostwriters (AOG). Granted, a solid percentage of those in attendance were already AOG members, but the rest generally had not heard of the professional association for the industry. After…