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I’ve worked with many people who tried to write memoirs, hit a brick wall, and then hired me as their ghostwriter.   Writing about...

In making the decision to hire a memoir ghostwriter, some people consider hiring a ghostwriting company. It might, on paper, seem like a...

Memoir is a subtle genre. It’s not a tell-all or a strip tease in public. TMI, or the wrong kind of information, can really sink a book...

I’ve always adored Faulkner. Bored with the usual high school literary fare, I picked up The Sound and the Fury when I was 16 or 17....

I recently finished a memoir for a client, who told me, quite happily, “My daughter read it and loved it—she said the memoir sounds...

Someone once said that every novel could be called Great Expectations.  The same could be said about every memoir.  The cycles of...

Is it necessary to meet with a ghostwriter in person to work on a memoir together?  Not in my view. I’ve lost a few jobs because of that...

That’s where I come in. As a seasoned memoir ghostwriter, I’ve developed a streamlined system to accommodate the busy schedules of CEOs,...

There are a number of reasons. --Lack of writing skills is usually the first. Not everyone is a skilled writer, or at least not in the...