In the public imagination, the world of ghostwriting is closely linked with that of celebrity. The most high-profile recent example is Spare, the autobiographical work by Prince Harry, and reported to have been ghosted by the US writer JR Moehringer.... Read More
It is probably the popular assumption that all professional authors want to be best-sellers in their own right. If your earnings from royalties, film rights and speeches do not provide a living wage, then you may earn your living by... Read More
What came first, language or the story? The logical sequence is, supposedly, that language came first. Humans emerged from the primeval swamp, and our evolutionary ancestors, developed handy attributes like walking upright and the opposable thumb, began talking to each... Read More
There are thousands of business and self-help books that coach the reader on how to communicate. A less obvious but also important attribute is the ability to listen. It is a discipline one has to learn as a ghostwriter, and... Read More
As I was driving to my short summer holiday last month, while fretting in guilty fashion about the CO2 emissions of the petrol-fuelled hire car I was driving, I distracted myself by listening to Radio 2. Each hour the BBC... Read More